95-822 IT Consulting

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

In this course, students develop clientfacing consulting and management skills while collaborating onsite with the leader of a local organization. Students learn process consulting, relationship management, problem identification and analysis, project management, and communication. Unlike typical student team projects, this course allows each student to add to their portfolio the experience of solely managing a consulting engagement while demonstrating their professional leadership and management skills. Course readings, class discussions, and smallgroup meetings with IT industry mentors help guide students through the process. The consulting focus is on using IT to sustainably solve problems in an organization, not on building systems. Substantial software development is rare. Most often, commercial, open source, or cloudbased solutions are selected and deployed. NOTE This course can not be taken PassFail.

Prerequisites: none listed

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