Master in Project Management

Course Content:

Strategic Project and Business Management

• The company and company policy
• Culture and organizational styles
• Project management and the company
• Organizational change projects
• Project feasibility and profitability study
• Areas of expertise in project management
• Organizational structures in projects
• Project Management Framework
• The overall standard of the Guide to Project Management Fundamentals (PMBOK ® Guide)
• Project concepts, project management and operations management
• Project life cycle and how the organization influences projects
• Project management processes
• Project management methodologies
• Project Scope Management
• What is project scope management?
• Gathering requirements
• Defining the project scope
• Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Verification and monitoring of project scope

Project Schedule Management

• Introduction and overview
• Identification and definition of schedule activities
• Sequencing of schedule activities
• Estimating the resource requirements for the activities
• Estimating the duration of activities
• Schedule development
• Monitoring and controlling due dates, monitoring the schedule
• Software tools: MS Project, practical exercises

Project Cost Management

• Introduction
• Estimating costs
• Preparation and approval of the project budget
• Cost control
• Main factors that can cause cost management fail
• Project Quality Management
• Quality planning, assurance and control
• Quality standards applicable to projects
• Products and/or service quality; the project’s quality plan
• Tools and techniques for improving the process quality

Project Risk Management

• The Project Management Institute’s project risk management methodology
• Equipment, schedule and cost required for risk management
• Principal risk identification techniques
• Principal qualitative and quantitative risk analysis techniques
• Contingency reserves and project management reserves. Budget and control
• Software tools for risk management
• Keys to effective project risk management

Project Funding

• Introduction
• Financial Plan
• Capital needs
• Financial model
• Financial analysis and reporting
• Project feasibility and risk analysis

Program Management and Project Portfolio

• Project program management
• Project portfolio management
• OPM3 standard ® (OPM3 is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
• Case studies

The Human Factor: Human Resources Management, Ethics and the Project Manager.

• Human Resource Planning. Recruitment and development
• Management and leading the project team
• Personal skills: Project Manager management skills and techniques
• Social and environmental responsibility
• Professional ethics
• Communication Management and the Stakeholders
• Identification of project stakeholders
• Planning project communications
• Collection, compilation and distribution of project information
• Managing expectations of the project stakeholders

Procurement Management and Legal Aspects

1. Methodology procurement management

Procurement planning, implementation and administration

Contract completion

2. Supplement on contractual strategies

Contractual strategies or typologies according to their scope, organization, price and allocation system

Consulting and project management support contracts

3. Contracts between private parties, public and international procurement
4. Contract of sale
5. Lease agreement
6. Significant contract-related legal concepts

Project Sales Management.

• The project as a product to sell
• The project sale process
• Types of deals and contracts
• Tender preparation and content
• Strategic sales methodology

Integration and Knowledge Management

• Initiation and planning processes
• Execution, control, closing and support processes
• Knowledge management
• Trends in project management

Innovative Methodologies and Industry Standards in Project Management.

• ISO21500
• Agile techniques
• PRISM
• Prince2
• IPMA approach to project management
• Project management adaption methodologies for specific sectors: construction, oil and gas, software development, maturity models, IPMA competency model for sectors

Workshops:

Project Management Information Systems (PMIS) and Tools

PMP Preparation: Initiation

Project Management Game