This course discusses the processes, methods, techniques and tools that organizations use to manage projects. The course covers a systematic methodology for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects. This course assumes that project management in the modern organization is a complex team-based activity, where various types of technologies (including project management software as well as software to support group collaboration) are an inherent part of the project management process. This course also acknowledges that project management involves both the use of resources from within the firm, as well as contracted from outside the organization. Taking into account the importance of information systems projects in today’s organizations, specific attention will be devoted to peculiarities of IT projects.