ProjectManagementOER

Introduction to Project Management

This website is a collection of open educational content for a general project management course based on courses I have taught at Selkirk College, University of Waterloo and University Canada West.

The website is a live source; some pages may be incomplete or include draft content. Please use it at your own risk.

Citation: Nasseri, S. Ali (2025). Introduction to Project Management. pmoer.nasseri.ca This website is the second version of the resource. The first version can be found here as a PDF: Project Management OER v1

Suggestions: Please let me know (ali@nasseri.ca) if you have any thoughts or suggestions on the content.

License Requirements: The materials in this resource are available for noncommercial use under terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You are invited to use, adapt, remix these material for non-commericial purposes. The license terms require you to give attribution and share your work under the same terms.

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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to Projects and Their Context
  2. Project Life Cycle and Project Management Processes
  3. Project Selection
  4. The Initiation Process Group
  5. The Planning Process Group
  6. Scope and Requirements Planning
  7. Creating the Schedule
  8. Estimation
  9. Developing the Budget
  10. Organizational Structures
  11. Resource Scheduling
  12. Using Project Management Software
  13. Risk Management
  14. Adjusting the Schedule
  15. Monitoring and Controlling
  16. Closing

Advanced Topics:

  1. introduction to Agile
  2. Project Portfolio Management
  3. Project Management Office
  4. Stakeholder Management
  5. Team Development and Leadership
  6. Conflict Management
  7. Enterprise Risk Management
  8. Procurement Management
  9. Change Management
  10. Project Management Maturity

Supplementary Material:

  1. Project Management Certification
  2. Communication in Project Management
  3. Analyzing Project Management Cases and Scenarios

Acknowledgment

This resource is not meant to replace other texts and does not include elements such as case studies and practice questions found in many textbooks. It does include key concepts and amalgamation of different perspectives in a single place for students to review, mostly inspired by various other texts or existing standards in project management. Each page includes links to the sources consulted.