he Project Management class teaches the students techniques for managing projects. They will be creating a number of project management documents based on requirements they get from the sponsor during meetings or other communication. The student teams generally do a great job. I give them guidance, but the team of students is responsible for completing the project. Sponsors create a short description of the project to distribute to the teams so they can pick the project they want to work on. This can be as little as one paragraph and as much as one page. The project should take 240 to 300 hours with 50% of the time spent on planning and developing documentation. The teams can create websites, databases, smartphone apps, and write business applications in Visual Basic or Asp.Net. Students have the skills to implement open-source web or application technologies to help manage business processes. Some teams work on big data projects where they create management decision making dashboards based on analysis of data. I will work with the team to make sure the scope of work can be done in the 240 to 300 hours. Sponsors agree to meet with the teams to provide guidance on the project. This will be at least one meeting at the beginning of the semester and periodic meetings throughout the rest of the semester. The students must keep the sponsor informed of progress on the project on a weekly basis.