Project Management-2025/2026
| Year 1 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
Group 1 | ||||
| MGMT-6054 | Project Strategic Management | 4 | ||
| Students learn how to include projects in a strategic management plan and how to employ appropriate project selection methods, including cash flow and economic analysis. Project planning, management and delivery methods are introduced, including how to effectively meet the needs of senior management, customers, and other project stakeholders. Students discover how organizations can deliver economic value, social benefit, environmental accountability & climate change mitigation; and how to achieve the strategic goals of Business Sustainability and Sustainable Development. | ||||
| MGMT-6055 | Project Scope & Requirements | 4 | ||
| Students will learn the skills to define, analyze, verify, control and lead project scope. They will also identify, collect and document project requirements, create a requirements plan, communicate and implement project requirements. Students will learn how to create and align a project charter to strategic organizational plans and satisfy stakeholder expectations. Students will also create and manage a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), as well as learn decomposition techniques and their impacts to project scope. | ||||
| MGMT-6056 | Project Cost Management | 3 | ||
| Students will develop the competences to define project costs within the planning phases, as well as the skills to estimate using such methods such as analogues, bottom-up and top down. Students will learn to analyze, translate and adapt the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) into a project budget and assess the linkages of positive and/or negative impacts and take appropriate action as required. Students will analyze project status and react to project changes, access the impacts and assess PERT analysis, cost and schedule performance within the context of project management to ensure cost control. | ||||
| MGMT-6057 | Contemporary Business Management | 3 | ||
| The objectives of this course are to explore the various contemporary and functional areas of business processes in Canada and to compare and contrast interrelationship within these domains. Students will research recent business phenomena to analyze business concepts as they relate to major business trends. They will discover how projects are affected by governance models, government in business, marketing, operations, employee-management issues, financial resources management, ethics, social responsibility and community-related philanthropy. | ||||
| MGMT-6058 | Project Time Management | 3 | ||
| This course will teach students the skills to manage the time dimension of projects. They will become familiar with estimating strategies, critical path identification, project float analysis, and defining and sequencing project activities using Network Diagrams and Gantt Charts. Students will also define, sequence, estimate resources and tasks to develop and control project schedules. The curriculum gives the students the abilities to develop and measure the Earned Value Management (EVM) process and track actions to control project schedules. | ||||
| COMM-6019 | Advanced Professional Communication | 3 | ||
| This course focuses on refining and advancing students workplace communication abilities. The advanced communication documents and strategies covered include presentation skills, research skills, business document writing, meeting and management team strategies, business etiquette, and advanced employment communications. Additionally, students learn about interpersonal and intercultural communication (high/low and monochromic/polychromic context) concepts and strategies. | ||||
| MGMT-6059 | Project Management Software Applications | 3 | ||
| The course will give students the ability to use project management software tools to optimize the project schedule, update and control a project as well as communicate aspects of the project to stakeholders. Students will learn to enter project tasks, estimate tasks, determine dependencies, incorporate deadlines and constraints, and assign resource calendars. Students will learn to manage project resource data and optimize resources to assignments. They will use software to conduct project analysis, develop reports, and manage changes. A final group project activity will incorporate theoretical and practical concepts learned throughout the course. | ||||
| MGMT-6061 | Agile Project Development | 3 | ||
| Students will learn the fundamentals of Agile project management, an approach best suited to complex projects with high uncertainty. Students will apply the Scrum Framework as one method that follows the Agile philosophy. Students will create product backlog user stories and estimate the effort to complete them. They will plan a Scrum sprint, and contribute to a sprint review and sprint retrospective. Students will apply Agile principles to career planning. They will understand the current use of both Agile and hybrid project management in business. | ||||
| MGMT-6062 | Project Risk & Quality | 4 | ||
| In the first half of the course, students learn to how to plan, identify, and perform qualitative and quantitative project risk analysis and opportunity analysis. Students also learn how to develop risk response plans; and lead, monitor and control project risks. In the second half of the course, students learn how to lead and build quality into projects, based on quality management principles. Students learn how to analyze, plan, perform and implement a quality plan including tools & techniques such as statistical quality control, lean/six sigma principles, process improvement, and ISO 9001 quality management requirements. Students also discover how to mitigate the environmental and climate change risks of business activities, through applying ISO 14001 environmental management and legislated Sustainability reporting requirements. | ||||
| MGMT-6063 | Project Procurement | 3 | ||
| Students will explore the various methodologies of procurement within the project management context. They will develop a vendor management plan and a project procurement strategy and then create, execute and control the procurement plan. Students will determine the make or buy decision and communicate the rationale to key stakeholders and project vendors. Students will also evaluate source selection criteria, contract and the legalities of project procurement for their own business and within a business. Students will learn about negotiation strategies and apply them as they execute and control the project procurement plan. | ||||
| MGMT-6064 | Project Leadership & Management | 3 | ||
| This course establishes the leadership skills to create, organize, manage, control, analyze, and adapt project teams. Students will acquire the practical leadership skills to communicate strategic business goals and create an effective Human Resources (HR) plan, to communicate and influence project teams, stakeholders and senior management to ensure project success, and to identify and acquire organizational resources for a project. The course also focuses on program and project leadership, the various methods of leadership, project integration and assesses legal and ethical project management issues. This course is used to pull all of the other project management courses in this program together into a consolidated whole, and gives the student a higher-level leadership view of portfolio, program and project management. | ||||
Group 2 | ||||
| Students will be enrolled in one of the following courses: MGMT-6060 or INNV-6001 | ||||
| MGMT-6060 | Project Recovery | 4 | ||
| This is the 'capstone' course in the Project Management Program, including concepts from all other Project Management courses, entailing a research project or 'live client' project which students develop throughout the course. Students learn how to research, plan, deliver and close projects; develop the competencies to assess impacts of change on active projects; create and lead a recovery plan. Students apply financial analysis, earned value management, and benefit analysis techniques to identify and respond to project changes; then prioritize & present clear business solutions to senior management and other important stakeholders. Students apply the principles of delivering economic value, social benefit, environmental accountability & climate change mitigation, to deliver the strategic goals of Business Sustainability and Sustainable Development. | ||||
| INNV-6001 | Innovation Applications | 4 | ||
| Organizations and individuals need to be innovative to succeed in the complex and rapidly-changing global market place. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of innovation and how innovation applies to your discipline or field. Using this foundational knowledge, you will select and apply the novel and adaptive thinking processes and tools presented in the course to complete an innovative learning project in collaboration with other students. The project will be based on a real-world scenario involving an external live client identified in consultation with your professor, and you will interact directly with the client. The project may involve a multi-disciplinary approach. Throughout the course, novel and adaptive thinking skills and collaboration skills will be evaluated through self assessment and peer assessment. This course is designed to give students in graduate certificate programs the opportunity apply innovative thinking to a real-world problem presented by an external client. | ||||
| Program Residency | ||||
| Students Must Complete a Minimum of 10 credits in this program at Fanshawe College to meet the Program Residency requirement and graduate from this program | ||||