Keyano College - Fundementals of Project Management

Final Exam

The exam will be available at 7 pm tonight.

I will be online (anas_keyano@hotmail.com) and on the phone 780 669 1584 between 7 and 9 to answer your questions .

Good Luck

Session	Date	Topic
1	15-Sep-08	Introduction Overview of Project Management Responsibilities of P Manager Best Practices of P Manager
2	22-Sep-08	Revision Construction: Construction in Canada; Overview of Construction PM Typical Construction Project Management; Terminology Activity 1: Phases of House Construction
3	29-Sep-08	Feedback on Assignment 1 Role of a Project Manager; Scope of Work (SOW); Typical Construction SOW; WBS CASE 1: Bridge
4	06-Oct-08	Presentation of CASE 1
5	13-Oct-08	Planning: WBS; Activity: Building Steel Portal Scheduling; COST; CASE 2: House Renovation
6	20-Oct-08	CASE 2 Group Development (Remote)
7	27-Oct-08	CASE 2 Group Discussion Advanced Scheduling Techniques; Schedule Techniques; Critical Path; Costing; Planning Documentation
8	03-Nov-08	Mid-Term (Remote)
9	10-Nov-08	Implementation: Startup; Project Control; Negotiation; Change Management; Negotiation; CASE 3: Implementation Project
10	17-Nov-08	Termination: Termination Activities; Termination Checklists
11	24-Nov-08	CASE 4: Closure
12	01-Dec-08	Technology in Project Management: EXCEL; Microsoft Project Manager; Online Project Management Tools
13	08-Dec-08	Online Project Management One Sheet Project Documentation
14	15-Dec-08	Final Exam (Remote)

Course Code:	CECONST-100
Course Title:	Fundamentals of Project Management
Credits:	3 Credits,
Duration:	13 weeks, 3 hours/week lecture
Class Time:	Mondays 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Classroom:	Bob Lamb 142
Text Book:	Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 6^th Ed, by Meredith - Mantel
Instructor:	Anas Eljamal
Instructor Contact Details:	Course Email:	keyano.pm@gmail.com
	Course Website:	www.eljamal.com/pm (all lower case)
	My Email:	anas.eljamal@keyano.ca
	My Tel:	(780)-791 4844
	My MSN:	anas_keyano@hotmail.com (add me to your contacts)
	FaceBook Group:	KC - Project Management
	Office Location:	Clearwater Campus, Room 168H
Office Hour:	Monday 5:00-6:45 pm or by appointment

Method of Delivery:

The course will depend heavily on cases addressing real-life-situations. Because this is a case-based class, each student is required to be an active participant in case discussions. Your participation grade will reflect my assessment of your total contribution to the learning environment. This includes the frequency of your contributions in class and the quality of the contribution. Quality, includes, among other things: (1) sound, rigorous, and insightful diagnosis (e.g. sharpening of key issues, depth and relevance of analysis); (2) ability to draw on course materials and your own experience productively; (3) ability to advance or sharpen in-class discussion and debate, willingness to take risky or unpopular points of view, use of logic, precision, and evidence in making arguments; (4) professionalism of your conduct (attendance, punctuality, preparedness, and showing respect to all section members and their class contributions). Unexcused absences and lack of preparation will be counted heavily against your grade.

Grading: Grades for assignments, tests, class participation and case studies will be expressed as percentages. Each percentage will be multiplied by their corresponding weights and summed to calculate a final percentage. The final percentage will be mapped to an appropriate grade within a four-point system. The weights of the assessment components of the course will be:

Case 1	Assignment 1	Case 2	Mid Term	Case 3	Case 3 Presentation	Final Exam	Class Participation	Online Activities	Attendance
5%	5%	10%	10%	15%	10%	20%	10%	5%	10%

To pass the course, the student is expected to obtain at least an overall grade of 50% AND a grade above 50% on the combined grades of the final and the midterm examinations. A student who achieves an overall grade above 50% but a combined exam grade below 50% will be awarded an overall grade of “F”.

Attendance: Attendance is compulsory for all examinations. An absence will be considered only in extreme well recorded cases like illness with a physician’s note.

Cheating: You are expected to learn and obtain information from others and convert them to your own knowledge. However, the work of others you use to construct your knowledge should be properly acknowledged. Any use of the material owned by others without proper authorization, especially copying the answers of a colleague during exams, is considered cheating whose consequence is a punitive action that might result in expulsion.

Assignment 1	Construction Definition and Building a House
Case 1	Building a Damn
Virtual Activity	Virtual Class of 20 October 2008 This is a lesson you will do on your own as part of the online module of this course.. I will be online on Anas_Keyano@hotmail.com (i.e. MSN chatting) to answer your questions. The objective of this lesson: (1) Use online tools to manage projects. (2) Convert a set of WBS into an Electronic format. (3) Learn the basics of project management tools. (4) Learn online collaboration. The Assignement: Introduction: Zoho.com offers free online Project Management application that you can use to collaborate with teams on porjects. They allow you to regsiter and create ONE project free of charge. Any other projects, you have to pay. For this assignment, use the Free project. You are not expected to pay for it. (1) Create your account on Zoho.com. (2) Using its "Zoho Projects", enter the Level 1 and 2 of the WBS you have made for the Dam. (3) You may work together to discover how the program works, but each one of you should submit your own Zoho project. (4) You may use any computer from home or some place else. You may use the computers in the Info Commons in the main building. Remember to activate your account (your login name is "first.lastnameXXX where XXX is the last 3 numbers of your student ID; your password is f$l$ddmmyyy; where f=first name initial, l=last name initial, dd is day of birth, mm is moth of birth and yyyy is year of birth. All lower case) (5) Add me to the list of collaborators to see you work. (6) When you finish, send me an email to keyano.pm@gmail.com to check your work. (7) Deadline: Saturday Oct 25th, 2008.
Crash Activity	Virtual Class of 01 Dec 2008 This assignment is part of CASE 3 which will be testing you on how you mitigate risk and crash projects. Today, you will spend the time of the class on your own (or with your colleagues) to complete the following assignment: Prepare for Your presentation for next week. Here are the details: Most of you have already submitted the first report. Well done. Now, I want you to reflect on the processes you have followed, as a project manager, to submit the report on time. You must use the two Cheat Sheets I have given you at the beginning of the semester and identify all the steps you have done and the steps you have missed. You need to present your findings next week in a 20 minute presentation to the rest of the class. The 20 minutes is sacred. The presentation SHOULD NOT BE ABOUT THE HOUSE BUILDING. It should be about your work as a project manager. In the presentation, you must prove to me that you have followed all the steps as identified in the course (i.e. SOW, Planning, Presentation, Termination) and that you have used proper documentation. Your mark will increase if you specify all the problems you have faced while explaining how you solved them. I will be online (anas_keyano@hotmail.com) and on the phone 780 7146600 between 7 and 10 to answer your questions and o email for the rest of the week. (7) Deadline: Monday Dec 8th, 2008

Tests Page

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You may call me at 780 669 1584 or
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send your answers to: keyano.pm@gmail.com

Documents Distributed in Class
Document Title	Description
Course Contract	The outline and conditions related to the course
Cheat Sheets	The list of activities involved in Project Management
Overview of Project Management	The 4 Phases of Project Management as used in the course.
Summary 1	Construction Concepts
Summary 2	Scope of Work

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