Information Systems Project Management Fundamentals

Graduate Badge

Grand Rapids • Face to face (?) • 3 Credits

Information systems project management fundamentals involve the essential principles and practices for planning, organizing, staffing, controlling, and directing information systems projects to ensure successful completion.

Overview

Grand Valley's Information Systems Project Management Fundamentals Graduate Badge is designed to enhance students' skills in managing information systems projects. This program covers essential aspects of project management, including planning, organizing, staffing, controlling, and directing projects. It emphasizes project planning techniques, tools for monitoring and controlling projects, and teamwork and leadership issues.

Students will engage in a term project that involves developing a project plan for a nontrivial information system project using project management tools. The curriculum includes learning objectives such as comparing project and product lifecycles, applying principles from the Agile Manifesto, and preparing professional quality project management work products. This ensures that students gain practical, industry-relevant skills.

The program provides a focused and flexible learning environment with small class sizes, allowing for personalized instruction. Digital badges can be displayed on social media and professional platforms, highlighting marketable skills to potential employers. This makes the program an excellent choice for those looking to enhance their project management capabilities in the field of information systems.

A digital badge, or badge, is a record of achievement that recognizes a student's completion of a coherent and meaningful academic experience. GVSU offers both credit and non-credit bearing badges as digital credentials. Credit-bearing badges include anywhere from 0.5 to 15 academic credits and may include additional noncredit criteria. Credit-bearing badges are also posted to the academic transcript.

Admission Information

Completion of a Bachelor's degree, and evidence of object-oriented programming skill is required for admission. You must submit an official transcript from your baccalaureate degree granting institution. To start your application, click here.

For current GVSU students:

Declare your badge via myBanner. Login to Banner Self-Service, click on Student, Student Records, Add a Certificate or Badge to your Program, Select the appropriate badge from the drop down list, and click Submit.
Speak with the appropriate badge coordinator to ensure criteria are being met. You will be able to track your progress toward the badge in myPath as well!
Once you are done with the requirements, apply to receive the badge via myBanner.
Once the completion of your badge has been verified, the badge will be posted to your student record and will be viewable on your transcript. In addition, your digital badge will be posted on Credly.com.

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