Linda Nozick is a professor in Cornell’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She served as director of the school for more than a decade. Prior to that role, Nozick was the director of the college’s Systems Engineering Program, which she co-founded. Nozick has been the recipient of several awards including a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Clinton for “the development of innovative solutions to problems associated with the transportation of hazardous waste.” She is a past U.S. Presidential appointee to the U.S Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. Nozick has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, many focused on transportation, the movement of hazardous materials, and the modeling of critical infrastructure systems. Nozick holds a B.S. in systems analysis and engineering from the George Washington University and a M.S.E and Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Agile Project Management ApproachesCornell Course
Course Overview
In traditional project management, we tend to make assumptions: the customer knows precisely what they want, or the team's workflow and tasks will go according to plan and in sequence.
Practically speaking, this is rarely the case. Sometimes the customer doesn't know what they need until they see an early iteration of your team's work and can provide feedback. Because of this, work is usually done incrementally. We must build flexibility, even agility, into the model in order to succeed.
This course is designed for project managers who want to get better practical results with adaptive approaches to projects. Students in this course will be most successful if they have a foundational understanding of traditional project management tools and processes including project networks, budgets and schedules.
You are required to have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience before taking this course:
- Organizing the Project and Its Components
- Planning and Managing Resources
- Assessing, Managing, and Mitigating Project Risk
- Using Earned Value Management for Project Managers
Key Course Takeaways
- Apply lean principles in the project management arena
- Recognize how lean principles complement and “rightsize” project management concepts
- Relate lean to agile concepts
- See why scrum and extreme are implementations of lean
- Determine how the characteristics of a project dictate the right structure for project planning, management, and control
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Who Should Enroll
- Project managers seeking to strengthen their project leadership skills or prepare for the PMP® certification exam.
- Program managers, project coordinators, and PMO professionals responsible for planning, executing, and delivering successful projects.
- Functional managers and team leaders who oversee cross-functional initiatives, strategic projects, or organizational change.
- Engineers, IT professionals, operations managers, product managers, and business analysts who lead projects as part of their role.
- Consultants and client-facing professionals responsible for managing project scope, timelines, budgets, and stakeholder expectations.
- Professionals preparing to transition into project management or take on greater project leadership responsibilities.
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