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MGMT 6332 / Project Management
Project Management
Turn operations strategy into coordinated execution and deliverables.
The Management Question
What decision does this operating system need managers to make?
What is it?
Turn operations strategy into coordinated execution and deliverables.
How does it work?
Learn the concept -> work through the operating logic -> apply it to the project.
Why does it matter?
The topic gives students a practical lens for improving real operating systems.
Next step
Open the lecture
Move into the interactive lecture experience for this topic.
Agenda - Week 07
Why good ideas die in execution
6:00–6:08 · Take a position on a project that looked smart and still missed
Scope statement workshop
6:08–6:22 · Purpose, deliverables, boundaries, and what will not be done
WBS and milestones
6:22–6:34 · Break the work down until a team can own pieces of it
Gantt and critical path
6:34–6:48 · See sequence, duration, and the path that actually sets the finish date
Risk and accountability
6:48–7:00 · Name uncertainty and decide who is responsible for what
Case 4 and the final presentation
7:00–7:12 · Convert the semester into a 10-minute executive story
Close the course arc
7:12–7:20 · Operations strategy becomes coordinated execution
Learning Objectives
After this week, you will be able to:
Explain why strong operations ideas still fail when execution is unstructured.
Write a project scope statement that names purpose, deliverables, boundaries, and success.
Build a work breakdown and a milestone schedule a team can actually run.
Read a Gantt chart well enough to see the critical path and where slack lives.
Assign risk and accountability so work does not become everybody's and nobody's.
Turn the semester operations strategy into a Case 4 plan and a 10-minute final briefing.
