Editing Management Principles (Winter 2026) (section)

== Overview and Learning Objectives ==
Management is a collection of practices, philosophies, skills, and strategies for completing work.

As students of computing in the twenty-first century, I expect that many of you taking this course will, after graduation, work in jobs that involve the building and maintaining of technology, although your day to day activities may look as varied as stress-testing hardware to imagining new front-end interactions to reviewing piles of data to understand a system compromise to jumping out of bed in the middle of the night to fix an angry database. This class seeks to inform these experiences by helping you learn the management processes and practices in common use in a range of industries and settings, and how to think more broadly and more deeply about how organizations function so that you can be a successful member of one.

I will consider the course a complete success if every student is able to do all of these things at the end of the quarter:

* Understand the role and purpose of management and leadership in technology organizations.
* Write and speak fluently about key concepts in management and organizational behavior, including collaboration, innovation, and creativity.
* Analyze a range of work situations with respect to management principles.
* Recall, compare, and give examples of organizational approaches that evidence suggests will be more or less successful.    
* Demonstrate an ability to critically apply ideas from the course to a series of activities, including a demonstrator project.
* Identify areas of ethical concern in management.
* Identify opportunities to improve cybersecurity in management.

I also have a "stretch goal": I want your work in this class to help you, in some direct way. Maybe it's having a great answer in a job interview when it's time to convince the interviewer that you have a lot to offer. Maybe it's having a piece of work you can feel good about sharing with others. Maybe it's applying your CSS350 thinking to a new assignment at work. Maybe it's seeing your world in a new way that helps you solve a problem. Or maybe it's just having an answer when someone asks skeptical questions about what you got out of studying Management! This goal is hard to measure but it's my hope for you and what I'm working for every day during the quarter.

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