Preparing Students to Run Projects: A Self Evaluation Mapping Our Current Curriculum to Needed Project Management Learning Outcomes

摘要

The statistics and statements below demonstrate that the demand for better trained project managers has greatly increased over the last several years and will continue to grow well into the future. The U.S. Spends 2.3 trillion dollar on projects everyyear, an amount equal to one-quarter of the nation's gross domestic product. (Schwalbe. 2004); The world as a whole spends nearly 10 trillion dollar of its 40.7 trillion dollar gross product on projects of all kinds. (Schwalbe, 2004) More than half a million new information technology application development projects were initiated during 2001, up from 300,000 in 2000. (Standish Group, 2001); A recent survey conducted at META Group's 2003 conference of attending Project Managers indicated that 77% of respondents believe lack of project and program management skills is a major IT issue. (META Group, 2003); On average. America spends over 275 billion dollar each year on about 200.000 software development projects, many of which tail.