2026-2027 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog [In Progress]
Badge in Information Systems Management
The College of Computing's Information Systems Management badge is designed to prepare students to accomplish the following:
- Analyze the business needs that drive the need for IS solutions.
- Compare and contrast stakeholder roles in IS development.
- Explain a typical IS project life cycle.
- Evaluate and choose appropriate system development life cycles and methodologies.
- Explain the interaction between the process groups, knowledge areas, and processes.
- Adapt basic tools, templates, and techniques to the planning, organization, and management of an information systems project.
- 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 object-oriented programming skills are required for admission.
Program Location
Classes are offered fully online, in a hybrid format, or in-person in the late afternoon or evening in downtown Grand Rapids.
Requirements
The Information Systems Management badge consists of three courses (9 credits).