Current PMI standards.

• Aligned to the latest PMI framework and PMBOK® Guide, ensuring your knowledge reflects the current expectations of the profession.

Flexible, self-paced learning

• 100% online with self-directed coursework, instructor-led support, and optional live webinars, designed to fit around demanding work schedules.

Cross-industry applicability

• Content is drawn from real-world examples across industries, from technology and construction to healthcare, the public sector, and beyond.

PMI credential pathway.

• Provides the educational hours, with sufficient work experience, required for the PMP® designation.

Certificate pathway.

• Work towards completing the UBC Sauder Project Management Certificate and set yourself up for advanced study in planning, risk, and leadership.

Impact on your organization, team or business:

Project management capability is not just an individual asset, it is an organizational one. When your people share a common project management language and framework, collaboration, accountability, and delivery outcomes all improve:

• Improve project success rates: Projects managed by trained professionals are significantly more likely to be delivered on time, within budget, and with objectives met. Foundational training closes the gaps that cause most project failures.
• Establish a shared Project Management language: When project sponsors, managers, and team members use consistent terminology, miscommunication is reduced and decisions happen faster, saving time across every initiative.
• Strengthen strategic execution: Trained project managers understand how to link project work to organizational strategy, ensuring initiatives deliver the benefits that justified them in the first place.
• Build a scalable PM capability: Investing in PM Fundamentals across your team creates a consistent baseline that scales. Whether you have a formal PMO or not, shared practices raise the performance of the team as a whole.

The course spans four content-rich modules that build progressively, from the foundations of project management through to the role of the project manager, strategic alignment, the PMI framework, and how to adapt your approach to different project types. You will spend approximately 10 hours per week on readings, attending optional webinars, applied exercises, and assignments.

Module 1

The Project Management Context

• The definition of what projects are, and what they are not
• The value of Project Management practices
• The driving forces that lead to projects being initiated
• Key project management terminology and vocabulary

Module 2

An Introduction to the PMBOK Guide

• The origins of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Project Management profession
• The basic purpose, content and structure of the PMBOK® Guide; How to apply PMI’s Project Management Framework and establish a set of processes, procedures, and tools for the needs of your organization. Types of processes, project deliverables, outputs, and outcomes

Module 3

Using Project Management to Organize Project Work

• Linking project objectives to organizational mission and strategy
• Planning and creating a project plan
• Traditional Project Management practices versus Agile Project Management practices. Benefits realization and how success is ultimately measured

Module 4

Succeeding in a Project management Role

• The project manager as a professional service role
• The PM as a "facilitative leader" and achieving results through the team
• Managing decisions, communications, and project information
• Key interpersonal and analytical skills for PM success