Postgraduate in Project Management

• Understand the fundamental concepts of project management.
• Become familiar with the various options for approaching product development: life cycle.
• Know the roles, responsibilities and skills of the project manager.
• Understand the role of project stakeholders.
• Understand and know how to manage the organizational influences on a project.
• Know the process prior to the authorization of a project.
• Understand the role of the Project Management Office.
• Understand the concepts of project schedule and project portfolio, and their importance from a demand management point of view.
• Link the knowledge acquired throughout the postgraduate course to the core case study.

Contents

• Basic concepts about projects.
• Product lifecycle.
• Demand Management.
• Strategic vision of the projects.
• Integration area in the PMOK.

Teaching guide

• Understand the fundamental concepts of agile methodologies.
• Identify the SCRUM ceremonies.
• Understand the concepts of product backlog and roadmap.
• Know how to define a new product in an agile way.
• Compile user histories.
• Prioritize user stories with value criteria.
• Evaluate user stories.
• Divide the project into sprints.
• Monitor the product through agile proposals.
• Make compilations of lessons learned through retrospectives.

Contents

• Introduction to agile methodologies.
• SCRUM general vision.
• SCRUM team dynamics.
• Defining the product.
• Estimation and prioritization.
• Plan releases.
• Carry out iterations (Sprints).
• Monitoring and communication.
• Scrum closes.

Teaching guide

• Introduce the main tools in project management.
• Understand the main functionalities of the tools.
• Have a vision of what its implementation in an organization represents.
• Delve into a project schedule planning tool.

Contents

• Modular tool for service and project management: JIRA.
• Management tool and collaborative organization of teams for project management: Trello.
• Management tool and collaborative organization of teams for project management: Wrike.
• Integrated demand and project management tool: ServiceNow.
• Planning Tool: MS Project.

Teaching guide

• Understand the need for an orderly process for requirements gathering in projects, and the impact that the result of this process has on all project deliverables.
• Know how to perform requirements gathering efficiently, using the most appropriate methods in each situation.
• Understand the importance of requirements validation by users, and how to obtain their approval.
• Know how to manage requirements and how to implement their traceability throughout the project life cycle.
• Generate the link between the requirements gathering and the following phases of a project.
• Generate the project planning based on the project scope and the tasks needed to complete the scope.
• Track the project plan and manage possible deviations.
• Generate a project budget and cost plan.
• Manage the cost plan during the development of the project, with its incurred costs and possible deviations.

Contents

• Scope management
• Time management
• Cost management

Teaching guide

• Learn about good practices in risk management.
• Carry out a risk management plan for the project.
• Know how to identify threats and opportunities in the project.
• Learn techniques for risk analysis.
• Establish strategies against risks.
• Know how to define the project's quality management plan.
• Disseminate good practices and tools for quality assurance and control in the project.
• Know the problems associated with the purchase of goods and services in projects.
• Know how to use types of contracts as a risk management tool.
• Understand the procedures to follow in proposals to Public Administrations.

Contents

• Risk management.
• Quality management.
• Supply management.

Teaching guide

• Know how to estimate, acquire, manage and utilize the team's human resources.
• Acquire knowledge of techniques that improve interaction and the overall team environment to achieve better project performance.
• Identify tools to optimally track team member performance, provide feedback, resolve problems, and manage team changes to optimize project performance.
• Develop an appropriate approach and plan for project communication activities based on the information needs of each stakeholder or group.
• Determine procedures to ensure the timely and appropriate collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, monitoring and final disposition of project information.
• Acquire knowledge to identify project stakeholders and to analyze and document information regarding their interests, participation, interdependencies, influence and potential impact on project success.
• Explore different approaches to engage project stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, interests and potential impact on the project.
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of how to work with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations, address incidents and encourage appropriate stakeholder involvement.

Contents

• Management of project human resources.
• Interested party management.
• Communication management in the project.

Teaching guide

• Understand the fundamental concepts of project management and apply them to your own project.
• Work in a team for the development of a project.
• To face the difficulties to put into practice all the theoretical knowledge acquired.
• Achieve a cohesive and integrated work with all the knowledge of the postgraduate course.
• Summarize, present and expose the final work before the court and their peers.

Teaching guide