Online Master's in Project Management
Online Course Schedule for Summer 2025
Agile Frameworks for Lean Ent
Agile organizations quickly sense and adapt to external and internal changes to deliver relevant results in a productive and cost-effective manner. This course explores merging life cycle approaches, which lead to greater organizational agility and provides an in-depth examination and evaluation of Lean-Agile principles and values and the drivers behind becoming a more agile organization. Students learn how organizations can achieve agility at scale by funding ecosystems of teams that deliver large initiatives, allowing decentralized financial decision-making within the portfolio, and continuously prioritizing their backlog of activities within each agile project. Learning objectives for this course include the ability to achieve true end-to-end business agility by utilizing industry standard agile frameworks (such as Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe); establishing the strategic themes that guide an organization's strategy and investments; determining and funding the relevant value streams; defining and prioritizing cross-cutting portfolio backlog epics; and monitoring the performance of the portfolios using applicable Lean portfolio, program, and team metrics. Students learn how to link an organizational strategy into relatively small investment increments called epics, study the breakup of epics into features that can be delivered by program teams, and explore the decomposition of features into user stories delivered by single teams in individual sprints. This course also explores organizational factors that impact the use of agile approaches, such as culture, readiness, business practices, and the role of the PMO.
- Course #: MPPM-6755-101
- CRN: 19920
- Instructor: Vallone, J.
- Dates: May 19 – Jul 12, 2025
Agile PM Fundamentals
The course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of Agile Project Management Fundamentals. The course not only teaches students how to manage projects with an adaptive approach, but also allows students to understand the differences and similarities between agile and traditional project management. Throughout the course, students acquire the essential knowledge on agile values, principles, practices, tools, and benefits of applying a lean-agile approach to Project Management. The course also provides students with the tools necessary to select an adequate approach to project management while considering degree of uncertainty and complexity. Through simulations and demonstrations of agile concepts, students gain experiential learning and acquire essential Agile PM skills to operate in an agile setting. By the end of the course, students can apply insights on how to blend linear, incremental, and iterative approaches in a traditional, agile, or hybrid environment.
- Course #: MPPM-5850-101
- CRN: 19916
- Instructor: Sone, S.
- Dates: May 19 – Jul 12, 2025
AI Project Management
The course provides an in-depth exploration of the strategic, methodological, and operational steps necessary for implementing successful AI-driven enterprise projects. It emphasizes the multifaceted organizational, political, and technological barriers that often impede AI adoption and presents actionable strategies to overcome these challenges. Students will engage with key topics such as change management, adaptive program management, and organizational agility, essential for navigating the rapid pace and inherent risks of AI integration. Through a mix of presentations, discussions, and research, students will learn to navigate the complexities of organizational change, including resistance and the emotional aspects of transformation. The course equips students with practical tools for managing the life cycle of AI projects, from planning to execution.
- Course #: MPPM-6820-201
- CRN: 20329
- Instructor: Moschoglou, G.
- Dates: Jun 23 – Aug 16, 2025
Capstone
The Capstone course is to be completed in the final term of the program and provides an opportunity for students to apply what they have learned in the program by producing a substantial piece of work under the tutelage of an industry advisor and program faculty. Projects are aligned with students’ chosen areas of interest. Students have the opportunity to present their work to industry professionals for review and feedback. Each student receives assistance in devising a strategy to support the topic of interest, consistent with the course goals, by semester’s end. Classroom assignments and lectures also focus on preparing students for successful project management careers after they graduate from the program.
- Course #: MPPM-7990-201
- CRN: 19922
- Instructor: DelGrosso, S.
- Dates: Jun 23 – Aug 16, 2025
Comm & Collab for Managers
This course teaches students the essential communication skills utilized by successful managers, including negotiation, persuasion and influencing, and presentation skills. Learning objectives for this course include demonstrating leadership skills and applying proven techniques in leading teams; applying communication best practices in projects; and evaluating communication needs for different motivational approaches by leveraging the Strength Development Inventory for both the “normal behavior” and “conflict mode” of individuals. By the end of the course, students are able to identify and resolve conflicts by practicing different conflict resolution approaches. This course also includes an examination of the individual motivators that aid students in effectively negotiating and influencing discussions with others.
- Course #: MPPM-5600-201
- CRN: 19915
- Instructor: Mathews, L.
- Dates: Jun 23 – Aug 16, 2025
Ethics
The Ethics course is the flagship course in all Georgetown-SCS MPS programs, taken at the beginning of the program. In the first part of this course, students are introduced to ethical methodologies, principles, values, and frameworks. In the second part of the course, students study discipline- and field-specific codes of ethics within the profession. The course explores the ethical responsibilities of all project management professionals to themselves, corporations, the government, and the public. Students contrast the roles and responsibilities of ethics versus compliance and their interdependencies. In the third part of the course, students are introduced to an ethical decision-making framework and applied ethical issues.
- Course #: MPPM-5000-101
- CRN: 19958
- Instructor: Wade, K.
- Dates: May 19 – Jul 12, 2025
Lean & Agile w/Scrum & Kanban
This course provides students with a solid foundation and a good understanding of practicing Agile with Scrum and Kanban. Scrum is a framework for designing, developing, and delivering products, services, and/or solutions of the highest value incrementally. Scrum is also known as a popular agile method in the computer software industry for addressing unknown and complex requirements iteratively and incrementally.. Scrum implementations require the use of self-organized teams who are flexible individuals willing to adapt quickly to change. Students will learn about the rules of the game specific to Scrum events (the sprint, sprint planning, daily Scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective), Scrum artifacts (e.g. product backlog, sprint backlog, and increment), and the importance of the definition of done. Kanban is another lean framework for developing and delivering products and services by balancing demands with available capacity, and by improving the handling of system-level bottlenecks. Students will also learn essential lean principles and discover how to use a Kanban board to help them visualize workflow and prioritize work items more effectively.
- Course #: MPPM-6740-201
- CRN: 20543
- Instructor: Spead, M.
- Dates: Jun 23 – Aug 16, 2025
Managing Complexity
This course investigates and discusses navigation complexity in large projects for successful outcomes. By the end of this course, students are able to understand and apply a best-practice framework for managing project complexity, including the development of management approaches for large and high-risk projects. This course also discusses industry standard guidelines established to help navigate intricate organizational challenges associated with project complexity, and explores case studies and real-world scenarios, which illustrate such challenges, and means to overcome them. The coursework aligns with the Project Management Institute’s Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide.
- Course #: MPPM-6725-201
- CRN: 20328
- Instructor: Cleveland, S.
- Dates: Jun 23 – Aug 16, 2025