The complexity of the telecom hierarchy with infrastructure, network, application and content has created highly intricate relationships between service providers, suppliers and customers. Moreover, a synergy of regulatory, economic and technological changes which have been accompanied by competitive forces is compelling telecom companies to deliver their products more quickly, with better quality and at lower costs. With the telecom industry constantly undergoing massive transformation, projects retain the status of the key engine of industry transformation and are basic to the companies supplying products and services in this market.

Implementing projects in such a dynamic environment needs discipline, which formal project management promotes. The course covers the theory and practice of project management in telecommunications with an accent on the distinctive needs of the telecommunications industry. It spans the scope of the project manager as well as the team members assigned throughout the life cycle of a telecom project. It explores how to write a project plan, set objectives, make a work breakdown structure, manage risks, manage procurement management and measure the project performance based on project assumptions as well as properly close out the project process. This course will use, by way of sample projects, project management in the telecom industry, as advocated by the Project Management Institution.