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JIM BURNS: Project Management, Operations Management and System Dynamics

DATE	Topic and Underlying PowerPoint	Reading/HW Assignment
8/30	Overview	B
8/30	Overview	B
9/1	How our actions create our reality	S
9/1	How our actions create our reality	S
9/8	Problem Definition and Causal Loop Diagramming	ST
9/8	Problem Definition and Causal Loop Diagramming	ST
9/13	Stock and Flow Diagrams, ST Ch 7	ST
9/13	Stock and Flow Diagrams	ST
9/15 9/20	Sectors and System Dynamics Sectors and Vensim	B
9/22	Using Ratios and Multipliers to bring in the effects of additional information from other Sectors	B
9/27	Bringing in the effects of additional information	B
9/27	Bringing in the effects of additional information	B
9/29	Delays and Supply Chains in VENSIM	B
9/29	Delays and Supply Chains in VENSIM	B
10/4	Review	B
10/4	Review	B
10/6	EXAM 1
10/6	EXAM 1
10/13	Chapter 13 of Sterman;	ST
10/13	Chapter 13 of Sterman;	ST
10/18	Chapter 14 of Sterman;	ST
10/18	Chapter 14 of Sterman;	ST
10/20	Chapter 17 of Sterman--Stock Management Structure	ST
10/20	Chapter 17 of Sterman--Stock Management Structure	ST
10/25	Chapter 18 0f Sterman--Manufacturing Supply chains	ST
10/25	Chapter 18 0f Sterman--Manufacturing Supply chains	ST
10/27	Chapter 19 of Sterman	ST
10/27	Chapter 19 of Sterman	ST
11/1	Help with projects
11/3	Contemporary Problems: Terrorism	B
11/8	Contemporary Problems: Energy, Economy	B
11/8	Contemporary Problems: Energy, Economy	B
11/10	PROJECT MANAGEMENT	B
11/15	Contemporary Problems: Business Process Re-engineering	B
11/17	Personal Mastery & Mental Models	B
11/17	Personal Mastery & Mental Models	B
11/22	The First Four Disciplines Prototypes	B
11/22	The First Four Disciplines Prototypes	B
11/29	Goldratt's Thinking Process	B
11/29	Goldratt's Thinking Process	B
12/1	Discrete Stochastic Simulation, PROMODEL	B
12/1	Presentations	B
12/6	Presentations
12/8	Review
	FINAL
	FINAL