Overview
Managing projects is a vital part of everyone’s job and mastering key concepts and techniques can help you be more effective in your career. This course puts project management concepts, tools, and techniques into a real-world context. The course logically follows the project life cycle and examines the technical and sociocultural dimensions of project management.
Whether you are already leading projects, working on projects, or wanting to take a more active role in upcoming projects, this course will provide you with essential project management knowledge and information (including techniques) that you can put to work immediately and build on in the future.
Outline
The course is divided into ten themes that are studied over ten weeks:
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Project Management
- Lesson 2: Project Initiation
- Lesson 3: Project Planning
- Lesson 4: Project Implementation
- Lesson 5: Leadership and Teams
- Lesson 6: Monitoring and Control
- Lesson 7: Project Close Out
- Lesson 8: Agile Project Management
- Lesson 9: Project Management Governance
- Lesson 10: Wrap Up
Objectives
By the end of this course, students should be able to
- Understand project, program, and portfolio management
- Explain how projects are managed through the project life cycle
- Understand and apply some project management techniques and access a variety of project management templates
- Apply project management concepts
- Be familiar with the project management knowledge areas
- Critically analyze, discuss, and debate topics in project management
Evaluation
Your grade will be based on the successful completion of two individual assignments and on your participation in moderated group discussions.
| Activity | Weight |
| Participation in Discussions and Weekly Nuggets | 50% |
| Assignment 1 | 20% |
| Assignment 2 | 30% |
| Total | 100% |
Component marks for this course are translated into letter grades as per the Graduate Grading Policy.
Materials
Digital course materials
Links to the following course materials will be made available in the course:
Larson, E. W., & Gray, C. F. (2024). Project management: A socio-technical approach. McGraw Hill.
Other materials
All other course materials will be accessed online.