EXCST 4204 - Fundamentals of Project Management
Course Description
The dynamics of today's business environment requires organizations to change, grow, and reinvent themselves. These new directions can only be achieved through the effective identification and implementation of projects. This seminar will provide you with a fundamental understanding of project management theory. You will develop an understanding of what projects are, what constitutes a complete project scope, how to develop an overall project schedule, what processes the project will have to follow, and what business systems will be required to ensure a successful outcome. A comprehensive project management model will be provided. As well, this seminar will address the human elements of project management.
Who Should Take This Course?
Aimed at a wide range of construction workers, including tradesmen and journeymen, managers and supervisors, administrators, contractors, consultants, architects, and construction business owners.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- 🗸 Perform a stakeholder analysis.
- 🗸 Understand and apply stakeholder requirements to form a scope statement.
- 🗸 Convert project requirements to objective and build a work breakdown structure.
- 🗸 Build a project schedule in the form of a Network Diagram and Gantt chart.
- 🗸 Perform a bottom-up estimate and explore various techniques for estimating.
- 🗸 Build an HR and communications plan and review organizational behaviour.
- 🗸 Use the project schedule and cost estimate to produce a baseline planed value.
- 🗸 Use earned value analysis to forecast project completion.
- 🗸 Inject change management into the project scope and mode the outcome.
- 🗸 Participate in an executive-level presentation of you project plan deliverables.
Notes
- 🗸Recognized by CIQS, Gold Seal, and Blue Seal both as required education for accreditation and continuing professional development (post-accreditation maintenance).
- 🗸This course delivery format is bichronous. 100% of course content is delivered online. Students engage in both asynchronous learning, coupled with scheduled synchronous sessions throughout the course. The asynchronous dates course cover course work/assessments in between synchronous sessions. To view the schedule of the synchronous sessions, click the "view details" link under Schedule and Location on the course section.
Applies Towards the Following Programs
- Construction Estimating and Planning Certificate : Courses in the Certificate
- Construction Management and Administration Certificate : Core Courses