2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Badge in Information Systems Project Management Fundamentals
The College of Computing's information systems project management fundamentals badge (not a degree or certificate) is designed to prepare students to accomplish the following:
- Compare and contrast project and product lifecycles.
- Explain the interaction between the process groups, knowledge areas, and processes defined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
- Propose and argue in support of a more realistic definition of a successful IS project that extends the traditional three-pronged, on-time, within budget, and meeting requirements definition.
- Adapt basic tools, templates, and techniques to the planning, organization, and management of an information systems project.
- Prepare professional quality PM work products.
- Apply the principles defined in the Agile Manifesto to IS project management.
- Discriminate between Agile and traditional approaches to IS project management.
Admission
Completion of a bachelor's degree and evidence of basic object-oriented programming skills, along with a basic understanding of software engineering principles or systems analysis and design are required for admission.
Program Location
Classes are offered in-person in the late afternoon or evening in downtown Grand Rapids.
Requirements
The badge comprises one course (three credits).
Students must take: