The Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business (SYGCOB) Learning Center
The SYGCOB Learning Center offers students an area to meet with groups, study before and
after class, and receive coaching. The SYGCOB Learning Center can be found on the
bottom floor of Blakley Library.
Professional Organizations
Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) provides practical guidance, benchmarks and other effective tools for all
enterprises that use information systems. Through its comprehensive guidance and services,
ISACA defines the roles of information systems governance, security, audit and assurance
professionals worldwide.
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the most widely adopted approach for IT Service Management in the world.
It provides a practical, no-nonsense framework for identifying, planning, delivering
and supporting IT services to the business.
Project Management Institute is the world's leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the
project, program and portfolio management profession. Founded in 1969, PMI delivers
value for more than 2.9 million professionals working in nearly every country in the
world through global advocacy, collaboration, education, and research.
Project Management Institute - Dallas Chapter
Project Management Institute - Fort Worth Chapter
Scrum is a simple yet incredibly powerful set of principles and practices that help teams
deliver products in short cycles, enabling fast feedback, continual improvement, and
rapid adaptation to change. As the leading Agile development framework, Scrum has
predominantly been used for software development, but it is also proving to be effective
in efforts far beyond.
Scrum Alliance is the largest, most established, influential professional membership organization
in the Agile world.
Project Management Frameworks
CA PM Framework The Project Life Cycle Framework leverages Project Management as the overarching process
which coordinates the underlying life cycle processes of project funding approval,
acquisition and system development.
CDC Unified Process The CDC UP Project Management Guide (PMG) provides guidance and advice to Project
Managers throughout the life cycle of a project in the form of a step-by-step best
practice approach to managing projects.
Michigan PM Framework Project Management Support Services provides project management, project portfolio
and program management, in addition to project management education, training, tools
and methodology.
TX PM Framework Technology projects can be delivered successfully using the Texas Project Delivery
Framework (Framework). The Framework consists of five review gates with guidance and
tools for each of those gates.
WA PM Framework The purpose of this policy is to improve the management of Information Technology
(IT) investment risks and to foster successful IT projects delivered on time and within
budget.