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Project Management Essentials OPMT 1187

Operations Management Course

Course details

​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

Cost

$516.18 - $554.93 See individual course offerings below for actual costs.

Course offerings

Winter 2023

Below are two offerings of OPMT 1187 for the Winter 2023 term.

CRN 12005

Duration

Thu Jan 12 - Thu Mar 30 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 12005
  • $554.93
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Jan 12 - Mar 30 Thu 18:30 - 21:30 Burnaby SE06 Rm. 204
Instructor

Michael Lachocki

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Cost

$554.93

Status

In Progress

This course offering is in progress. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.

CRN 86184

Duration

Thu Jan 12 - Thu Mar 30 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 86184
  • $542.07
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Jan 12 - Mar 30 Thu 18:00 - 21:00 Downtown DTC Rm. 687
Instructor

Hylton Ferreira

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Cost

$542.07

Status

In Progress

This course offering is in progress. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.

Spring/Summer 2023

Below are seven offerings of OPMT 1187 for the Spring/Summer 2023 term.

CRN 65264

Duration

Mon Apr 03 - Mon Jun 19 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 65264
  • $516.18
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 03 - Jun 19 N/A N/A Online
Instructor

Adrienne Watt

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Cost

$516.18

Important information
  1. Internet delivery format.
  2. This is an asynchronous course that will be held entirely online, but not requiring you to meet each and every week at a specific time. Please check the registration page for any specific dates and times that you will need to be available (i.e midterm and final exams). .
Status

CRN 65949

Duration

Mon Apr 03 - Mon Jun 19 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 65949
  • $516.18
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 03 - Jun 19 N/A N/A Online
Instructor

Kathi Bridge

Course outline

Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.

Cost

$516.18

Important information
  1. Internet delivery format.
  2. Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
  3. The course will be taught with a blend of asynchronous and synchronous formats. That means you will be learning much of the material in your own time, but will also be meeting together online with the other students and instructor. We will all meet 4 times in the online class during the course. The first two weeks for introductions and group assignments, week 6 for check in and week 11 for group presentations. Online classes will be Tuesdays from 7 pm to 9 pm. Online group work is also part of the curriculum, you will be expected to work with other students on a regular basis to submit the two required assignments. Weekly office hours with the instructor will be available to ask any questions you might have about the course work and assignments
Status

CRN 65946

Duration

Tue Apr 04 - Tue Jun 20 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 65946
  • $554.93
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 04 - Jun 20 Tue 18:30 - 21:30 Burnaby NE01 Rm. 402
Instructor

Darren Brant

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Cost

$554.93

Status

Seats Available

4 seats remaining as of Wed March 29, 2023 at 8:57 am (PDT). Availability may change at any time.

CRN 65943

Duration

Sat Apr 01 - Sat Jul 08 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 65943
  • $554.93
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 01 - Jul 08 Sat 09:00 - 12:00 Burnaby SE06 Rm. 109
Instructor

Stuart East

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Cost

$554.93

Important information
  1. No class on Saturday April 8, May 20 and July 1
Status

Full

This course offering is full. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.

CRN 63483

Duration

Mon Apr 03 - Mon Jun 19 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 63483
  • $516.18
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 03 - Jun 19 N/A N/A Online
Instructor

Adrienne Watt

Course outline

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Cost

$516.18

Important information
  1. Internet delivery format.
  2. This is an asynchronous course that will be held entirely online, but not requiring you to meet each and every week at a specific time. To be successful in our online course, plan to spend 7-10 hours per course each week on your studies, starting week 1. Our courses are paced and highly interactive with participation requirements weekly. Frequent contributions to asynchronous (not real time) discussions is required.
Status

Full

This course offering is full. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.

CRN 65268

Duration

Thu Apr 06 - Thu Jun 22 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 65268
  • $516.18
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 06 - Jun 22 Thu 18:00 - 21:00 Online
Instructor

Hylton Ferreira

Course outline

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Cost

$516.18

Important information
  1. Internet delivery format.
  2. This course is being held entirely online, however this is a synchronous course which requires you to be online on the posted days and times shown on your myBCIT schedule.
Status

Full

This course offering is full. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.

CRN 56012

Duration

Fri Apr 14 - Fri Jun 30 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 56012
  • $542.07
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 14 - Jun 30 Fri 17:30 - 20:30 Downtown DTC Rm. 483
Instructor

Michael Lachocki

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Cost

$542.07

Important information
  1. No class on April 15
Status

Full

This course offering is full. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.

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

Related Programs

Project Management Essentials (OPMT 1187) is offered as a part of the following programs:

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    Statement of Completion Part-time

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  1. Advanced Safety Management
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