Master in Project Management

MODULE 1BUSINESS VENTURES AND PROJECTS IN VUCA ENVIRONMENTSStrategic Leadership: Transformation & Change - 5 ECTS
Liquid organizations and change.Balanced scorecard.Agile Manifesto. Agile principles.Customer experience in the digital age.Project Life Cycle. Value Delivery - 5 ECTS
Business analysis techniques and tools.What is a project and what is project management? Benefits."Life Cycle" and "Delivery" domains in PMBOK7.Key project management frameworks: PMBOK, Prince2, Scrum, Kanban.Scope management in predictive projects.

MODULE 2PLANNING THE PROJECT WORKAdvanced Project Planning: Timing, Cost and Resources - 5 ECTS
New PMBOK 7 "Planning" domain.Planning timeline and cost management.Techniques for defining, sequencing and estimating the schedule and cost of activities.Programming methods: Critical path vs. Critical chain.Practical Microsoft Project workshop.Managing Uncertainty and Quality in Projects - 5 ECTS
Uncertainty in Project Management. Updated approach for PMBOK7.Risk definition. Benefits and good practices.Practical workshop on probabilistic modelling workshop using @RISK (Montecarlo analysis).Quality assurance and control tools.Lean management and continuous improvement.Procurement and Contract Management. Knowledge Assets - 5 ECTS
Project Manager versus Contract Manager.Relationships with the "Project Work" domain in PMBOK7.Contract types (advantages and disadvantages) and distributing financial risk.Make or buy, advantages and disadvantages of the sole buyer/seller relationship.Practical cases to apply lessons learned in predictive and agile projects.

MODULE 3TEAM PERFORMANCE AND MEASUREMENTTeam Performance and Stakeholder Management - 5 ECTS
Introduction to soft skills required for Project Management.Leadership, influencig and team management.Communication and project management. The communication plan in the project."Team Performance" domain in PMBOK7.Stakeholder Management in predictive and hybrid projects.Value-driven Projects and PMO Data Analytics - 5 ECTS
Introduction to PMOs, programs and portfolios.Benefits of a PMO.Project portfolio management.New ""Measurement"" domain in PMBOK7, impact at a project and business level.Data dashboards in projects and portfolios. PowerBI practices.

MODULE 4AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CERTIFICATIONSAgile Project Management and Agile Transformation - 5 ECTS
Scrum working framework in detail.Kanban and experimenting with the benefits of the WIP (Work In Progress) limits for improving the project workflow.Disciplined Agile working framework.Why scale? "Growing" versus 'Scaling'. Striving for the Lean-Agile organization.Organizational design: Value streams, transition, skills and roles, practice communities and Agile PMO.Preparation for Certifications and Project Management Game - 5 ECTS
Comprehensive prior review of PMBOK (knowledge areas, process groups and executive processes).Practical collaborative examination simulation in the classroom using real recent tests, based on the instructor's bank of questions (discussion and reflections).Preparation for PSM I certification of scrum.org. Test questions and simulation.Practical collaborative simulation with the Project Management Game tool.

MASTER’S THESIS15 ECTS
It’s not just the research paper you need to do in order to get your master’s degree — it’s the right time and the right place for you to combine your academic experience with your professional ambition, personal vision and your creativity. It’s your chance to put everything you’ve been learning into practice and to work in order to get to where you want to be.