Introduction to Project Management

Lessons

1. Why Project Management?

   As a collective process and a form of social action, a community mobilization can...

2. What is Project Management?

   In this video, Professor Lavagnon Ika, project management professor at the University of Ottawa, explains what a project is and...

3. Project Lifecycles

   Because of its temporary nature, a project has a beginning, a middle and an end, and...

4. Elements of a Project

   Another important characteristic of a project is identified by its three main elements – scope, time and cost...

5. Initiating

   The first step to initiate a project in a community mobilization is to gather the community and...

   1. Initiating - born as a shared dream

   2. Initiating - from an individual to a collective dream

   3. Initiating - communicating

6. Planning

   After delivering the initiation stage, the next stage is to plan how to...

7. Executing

   After the planning stage, the community starts to implement the project. The deliverable...

8. Evaluating

   Generally considered as the last stage of a project lifecycle, the evaluation...

9. Celebrating

   The final stage that we can add to the Project Lifecycle is the celebration one. Gathering the community...

10. Mobilization is bigger than any project

    As we have studied, community mobilizations can take place around...