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Overview

Program Description

Project Management improves your ability to implement mission critical work on time and on budget. Considered the cornerstone in any organization, Project Managers are highly sought after in a wide range of industries. Study the competencies required to move a business opportunity through conceptualization, initiation, planning, execution, control, and closing, ensuring success.

Please note these courses are developed for students with prior post-secondary education or experience in project management.

Upon successful completion of this program, a student can transfer all these courses into the Project Management graduate certificate program (PRJ1) (admission requirements apply).

Courses

Program Requirements

Level 1
Take all of the following Mandatory Courses:
Expected Availability
CreditsFall Winter Summer
Project Scope & RequirementsMGMT-60554YesNo
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.
Project Cost ManagementMGMT-60563YesNo
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.
Project Time ManagementMGMT-60583YesNo
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.
Project Risk & QualityMGMT-60624NoYes
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.
Project ProcurementMGMT-60633NoYes
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.

Add'l Req
Take 1 of the following courses:
COMM-6002, MGMT-6054 or MGMT-6061
Expected Availability
CreditsFall Winter Summer
Organizational Business CommunicationCOMM-60023YesYes
This course provides an overview of important communication concepts and skills required in business. Topics covered include: writing clear reports and documentation, making effective presentations, and fostering interpersonal skills.
Project Strategic ManagementMGMT-60544YesNo
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.
Agile Project DevelopmentMGMT-60613NoYes
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.

Program Residency
Students Must Complete a Minimum of 5 credits in this
program at Fanshawe College to meet the Program Residency
requirement and graduate from this program

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Learning Outcomes

  1. Manage the scope, cost, timing, and quality of the project at all times focused on project success as defined by project stakeholders.
  2. Align the project to the organization’s strategic plan, quality assurance processes and business justification throughout its lifecycle.
  3. Define and manage the overall scope of the project, deliverables, constraints, performance criteria, benchmarks (including financial) and resource requirements in consultation with project stakeholders.
  4. Implement project management knowledge processes, lifecycle and concepts, tools and techniques in order to achieve project success as defined by the stakeholder(s).
  5. Describe how to interact with team and stakeholders in a professional manner, respecting differences to ensure a collaborative project environment.
  6. Manage communications to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, and dissemination of project information to aid in the achievement of project objectives.
  7. Apply project management practices to the launch of new projects such as programs, initiatives, products, services, and events relative to the needs of stakeholders.
  8. Develop a comprehensive project plan that includes planning and control procedures, resource management, and risk management plans.
     

Program Details

Program Code
PRM3
Delivery
Part-Time
Online
Topic Area
Business
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