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The course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of Agile Project Management Fundamentals. Students acquire 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 the 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.

This course prepares students to develop governance frameworks for information security management. Students learn how to develop holistic and integrated frameworks that include: (1) strategic planning; (2) security architecture policy and standards; (3) cultural and organizational awareness, training, and change management principles; (4) security operations; and (5) compliance and audit support elements. Students will study existing frameworks that are recognized as best practice in the public and private sectors (federal government, critical infrastructure, ISO 27000 for commercial, etc.).

This course examines how organizations can use information to create competitive advantage. Students will learn how organizations can become data driven by having the proper elements in place, such as strategy, data governance, and leadership. They will also gain knowledge on security and privacy requirements for information and how to monetize information for competitive advantage. Finally, the course covers best practices for sharing information within organizations and among organizations, and how to convert tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge.

This course will help students understand how people – their suppliers and their customers, their partners and their competitors, and their superiors and their direct reports – come to have moral opinions on ethical dilemmas. Exploring both rational and affective theories of human morality, it will show how to resolve moral questions, and to make moral arguments. It will examine common ethical scenarios involving technology, as well as how ethics is handled in the business world. The course will review the ethical issues around Artificial Intelligence which may transform both the technology, and the people, with whom students will work.