This document outlines the curriculum for a project management fundamentals course offered by PMVISION Training Centre. The course aims to provide students with an understanding of key project management concepts, processes, and tools. It covers 12 major topics related to project integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement management. The course will include lectures, assigned readings, assignments, quizzes, tests and a final exam. Students must score at least 51% to pass. Suggestions are provided to help students successfully complete the course.
2. PMGT- 401:
Project Management Fundamentals
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• Agenda
• Class introductions/Expectations
• Course introduction
• Course textbook and reference materials
• Course organization
• Course evaluation
• Suggestions for passing the course
• Development/agreement on class norms
4. Instructor Contact Information
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Name: Nawras Khaled, MBA, PMP, ITIL
Cell Phone: 647-761-7364
Please leave a clear, short message:
• your name,
• the purpose of your call,
• how I can reach you.
Email: contact@pmvision.ca
5. Course Objectives
Understand the concepts of the project management and general business
environments that typical projects operate
Understand a general project life cycle and its phases
Understand the project management processes and outputs as they apply
to a generic project life cycle.
Understand the roles of the project manager, project stakeholders and
project team and the skills required to manage a generic project.
Understand how the project management processes are properly
coordinated and the trade-offs among competing objectives and
alternatives to meet stakeholder needs and expectations
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6. Project Management
Project Management:
• Project management is a methodological approach to achieving agreed
upon results within a specified time frame with defined resources.
• It involves applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a wide
range of activities in order to meet the requirements of a project.
• The major objectives of project management include performance,
cost, and time goals.
• The focus is to meet customer expectations, deliver projects within
budget, and complete projects on time.
• Project management is helpful in achieving these objectives by
organizing, planning, monitoring, controlling, and correcting the
project activities.
• These activities consist of creating a workable project environment, and
keeping the work environment healthy.
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7. Course Organization:
Learning Objectives
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• 01 Introduction to Project Management
• Define Projects & Project Management
• Describe Project Framework, Knowledge Areas
• Discuss Relationships Between Projects, Programs & Portfolios
• Describe The Role Of The Project Manager
• Describe The Project Management Profession
• Professional Organizations, Certification & Ethics
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• 02 Project Management Framework
• Describe The Systems View Of Project Management
• Explain Organizations, Their Structure & Culture
• Describe Project Phases And Project Life-Cycle
• Distinguish Between Project & Product Development
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• 03 Project Management Process
• Describe The Five Process Groups
• Explain The Relationship Between Project Management Knowledge Areas And Process Groups
• Describe Effective Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring And Closing Processes.
• 04 Project Integration Management
• Understand and explain the processes/tools required to properly coordinate the various elements
of the project and it involves making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives in
order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations.
• 05 Project Scope Management
• Understand and explain the processes/tools required to ensure that the project includes all the
work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully
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• 06 Project Time Management
• Understand and explain the processes/tools required to ensure the project is completed on time
• 07 Project Cost Management
• Understand and explain the processes/tools required to ensure the project is completed within the
approved budget
• 08 Project Quality Management
• Understand and explain the processes/tools required for the project to meet the requirements that
it was undertaken to produce. It involves the quality management of the project as well as the
quality aspects of the product or service the project was undertaken to produce.
• 09 Project Human Resource Management
• Understand and explain the processes/tools required to make the most effective use of the people
involved with the project. It includes all the project stakeholders (sponsors, customers, individual
contributors).
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• 10 Project Communications Management
• Understand and explain the processes/tools required to ensure timely and appropriate
development, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information
• 11 Project Risk Management
• Understand and explain the processes/tools required to effectively identify, analyze, and respond
to project risks
• 12 Project Procurement Management
• Understand and explain the processes/tools for purchasing or acquiring the products, services, or
results needed from outside the project team to perform the project work
11. Course Organization
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• Lecture Notes
• Notes as a minimum will include the concepts discuss in the text book.
• Additional notes will be provided that cover topics not included in the
course text books.
• Reading Materials/Case Studies/Assignments
• The course text book will be used as the main source.
• Additional reading materials will be identified from the three reference text
books.
• Important to study the lecture notes.
• Assignments/Quizzes/Tests/Final Exam
• Multiple Choice- most of the time
12. Course Evaluation
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Evaluation:
Test 1 15% (Multiple choice)
Test 2 25% (Multiple choice)
Final Exam 25% (Multiple Choice)
Assignments 10%
Team Project 15%
Quizzes 10% “Drop Quizzes”
TOTAL 100%
Passing Mark is 51%
13. Suggestions for Passing the Course
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1. Read the lecture notes and reference material. Complete the home assignments on your own.
2. Answer the test/exam questions form what you learned in the course, NOT the perspective you
have acquired from your life experience.
3. READ all the FOUR multiple choice answers. It is better to read them in reverse (D to A) to force
yourself to read all the answers.
4. There will be more than one CORRECT answer to each question, but only one BEST answer.
Practice looking for the best answer.
5. Make sure you have clearly read the question and understand it. In the questions, look for words
like “ First, Last, Next, Best, Never, Always, Except, NOT, Most Likely, Primary, Initial , Most”
6. Brain Dump: As soon as you are given paper at the test/exam, write down all the FORMULAS.
You must memorize a limited amount of simple formulas.
14. Suggestions for Passing the Course
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6. If you are unsure of the answer, mark and return to it later. Do not attempt to answer the first time.
7. Often, lengthy questions have a few lines explaining a situation that is not related to the actual
question, or any of the other possible answers.
8. Use all the time – go back and check the answers. Do not leave the test/exam early!
