Class outline from February 22, 1997
Topics:
Welcome and introductions to staff & advisory committee.
Why project management?
Industry perspective on project management. Fred Black.
Why CityU. Structure of program. Goals and highlights.
Page Carter:
- Introduction and history of project management.
- Paradigm
shifts. Scientific, Industrial, and Information revolutions.
- Philosophy. (Idealism / Realism / Pragmatism / Existentialism).
- Realism (Newton, Descartes, Einstein). Deterministic,
results oriented, competitive, efficient.
- Pragmatism (Gause, Bohr, Deming). Probabilistic, process
oriented, cooperative, effective.
- Evaluate 3 contemporary project management theories.
- Profound Knowledge, W.E.
Deming.
- Capability
Maturity Model (CMM), Carnegie Mellon University.
- Uncertainty Complexity Pace Model (UCP), Aaron J. Shenhar.