Track Title: Project Management

Track Chair: Manoucher Tabatabai, Georgia Southern University, mtabatab AT georgiasouthern.edu

Track Description:
The history of Project Management (PM) is quite rich and extensive, but PM has gained a great deal of attention among Information Technology (IT) practitioners in recent years. The importance of PM techniques, methods, and tools has surfaced due to the enormous amount of capital invested in IT. In addition, effective project managers are in high demand and short supply. Chief Information Officers are emphasizing effective project managers as IT project success is often directly attributable to the leadership provided by effective project managers.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

• Project Management Methodologies
• Agile Project Management
• Global Project Management
• Product/Process Innovation
• Effective Project Manager
• Project Management Knowledge Areas
• Technologies in Project Management
• Virtual Team