Course Overview
This course teaches students a variety of skills including project definition, WBS, SOW, activity development, network diagrams, three-time estimate method to assess risk and schedule a project, resource levelling, time cost trade-offs and estimating, earned value, reporting and progress measurement during project, project termination and the role of project personnel. This course is based on the Project Management Institute (PMI)® Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and can be used as credit towards the BCIT Associate Certificate in Project Management www.bcit.ca/study/programs/5085acert. PMI® and PMBOK® are trademarks of PMI®
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
Domestic fees
$572.89 - $616.90 See individual course offerings below for actual costs.
International fees are typically 3.4 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Describe what a project is and project management practices, functions, phases, terminology and issues.
- Understand project engineering economic analysis, screening and selections methods.
- Define and apply a functional and matrix project organizational structure and work breakdown structure (WBS) to assign and define the work.
- Define and apply risk, configuration management and top quality management techniques to better manage a technological project and problem solve.
- Define and apply the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Critical Path Method (CPM) and Gantt Chart to schedule a project; statistical, parametric and learning curve methods to estimate activity duration and statistical methods to cope with uncertainty in a project schedule.
- Define and apply project budgeting techniques and life cycle cost analyses.
- Incorporate resources into the schedule: plan resource utilization, conduct resource leveling and resource limited scheduling and investigate project management software that accomplishes the above.
- Control a project budget and schedule: examine effects of actual schedule performance, incorporate changes into the schedule, update the schedule and approaches to schedule control including time-cost trade-offs.
- Measure the performance of a project: budget allocation, cumulative budget cost, actual and budgeted cost comparison; determining the value of the work performed using earned value and percent complete; cost performance analysis using cost-related measures, variances and performance indices; forecast costs based on project performance; examine cost control and investigate project management software that accomplishes the above
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2005
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Project Management Essentials (OPMT 1187) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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Course Offerings
Fall 2026
Below are six offerings of OPMT 1187 for the Fall 2026 term.
CRN 49532
Dates
Sep 08 - Nov 28 Loading
- CRN 49532
- $616.90 Domestic fees
Class meeting times
Duration
12 weeks
Instructor
Adrienne Watt
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
Important information
- This course is asynchronous and does not require you to meet every week at a specific time, however, there will be specific timelines for assignments and exams. It is important you have a stable and consistent internet connection to access course content. Course content, type and quality of assignments, and general standards for this online course are the same as classroom courses. To be successful in this online course, plan to spend 7-10 hours per week on your studies, or more of it’s a condensed course, starting Week 1. Important course information will be sent to your myBCIT account prior to your course start date. ***Please note that the exams will be in person at the Burnaby campus as follows: Midterm: Saturday, October 24 9:30 am and Final exam Saturday Nov 21 at 9:30 am
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CRN 50507
Dates
Sep 08 - Nov 24 Loading
- CRN 50507
- $616.90 Domestic fees
Class meeting times
| Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 08 - Nov 24 | Tue | 18:30 - 21:30 | Burnaby SW09 Rm. 122 |
Duration
12 weeks
Instructor
Darren Brant
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
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CRN 45503
Dates
Sep 09 - Dec 09 Loading
- CRN 45503
- $616.90 Domestic fees
Class meeting times
| Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 09 - Dec 09 | Wed | 18:30 - 21:30 | Burnaby SW01 Rm. 2016 |
Duration
12 weeks
Instructor
Jocelan Blackwell
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
Important information
- No class on Wed, Sept 30 and Wed Nov 11
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CRN 37334
Dates
Sep 10 - Nov 26 Loading
- CRN 37334
- $616.90 Domestic fees
Class meeting times
| Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10 - Nov 26 | Thu | 18:30 - 21:30 | Burnaby SE06 Rm. 109 |
Duration
12 weeks
Instructor
Michael Lachocki
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
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CRN 50663
Dates
Sep 10 - Nov 26 Loading
- CRN 50663
- $601.93 Domestic fees
Class meeting times
| Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10 - Nov 26 | Thu | 18:00 - 21:00 | Downtown DTC Rm. 385 |
Duration
12 weeks
Instructor
Hylton Ferreira
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
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CRN 52245
Dates
Sep 07 - Nov 23 Loading
- CRN 52245
- $572.89 Domestic fees
Class meeting times
| Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 07 - Nov 23 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Duration
12 weeks
Instructor
Shirley Lu
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
Important information
- This course is asynchronous and does not require you to meet every week at a specific time, however, there will be specific timelines for assignments and exams. It is important you have a stable and consistent internet connection to access course content. Course content, type and quality of assignments, and general standards for this online course are the same as classroom courses. To be successful in this online course, plan to spend 7-10 hours per week on your studies, or more of it’s a condensed course, starting Week 1. Important course information will be sent to your myBCIT account prior to your course start date.
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