BUSINESS AND PROJECTS IN VUCA ENVIROMENTS

6 ECTS - Strategic leadership. Transformation and change

• Liquid organizations and change
• Balanced scorecard
• Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles
• The customer experience in the digital age

6 ECTS - Project lifecycle management. Value delivery

• Exploration of business analysis techniques and tools
• What is a project and what is Project Management? Benefits
• Domains "Life Cycle" and "Delivery" in PMBOK7
• Relevant frameworks: PMBOK, Prince2, Scrum, and Kanban
• Scope management in predictive projects

PROJECT WORK PLANNING

6 ECTS - Advanced planning: time, cost, resources, and time management

• New domain PMBOK 7 "Planning"
• Schedule and cost management planning
• Techniques for defining, sequencing, and estimating the time and cost of activities
• Programming methods: critical path vs. critical chain
• Microsoft Project workshop
• Spectrum of uncertainty in project management: updated approach according to PMBOK7
• Definition of risk: benefits and good practices
• Practical workshop on probabilistic risk modelling using @RISK (Monte Carlo analysis)

6 ECTS - Asset and quality management, procurement, and contracts

• Quality assurance and control tools
• Lean and Continuous Improvement
• Project Manager versus Contract Manager
• Relationship with the domain "Project Work" in PMBOK7
• Types of contract (advantages and disadvantages) and financial risk
• Make or Buy: advantages and disadvantages of the unique buyer/seller relationship
• Lessons learned practices in predictive and agile projects

EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE AND MEASUREMENTS

6 ECTS - Team Performance and Stakeholder Management

• Introduction to the skills of a Project Manager
• Leadership, influence, and team management
• PM communication: communication plan in the project
• New "Team Performance" domain of PMBOK7
• Stakeholder Management in predictive and hybrid projects

6 ECTS - Value-driven Projects & PMO Data Analytics

• Introduction to PMOs, programs, and portfolios
• Benefits of a PMO
• Project portfolio management
• New "Measurement" domain of PMBOK 7, impact at project and business level
• Dashboards (Dashboards) in projects and portfolios: Power BI practices

AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CERTIFICATIONS

6 ECTS - Agile Project Management and Digital Transformation

• Scrum framework in detail
• Kanban and experimentation of the benefit of the limits WIP (work in progress) for the improvement of the project workflow
• Disciplined Agile Framework
• Why 'scale'? 'Growing' versus 'Scaling': Looking for the Lean-Agile organization
• Organizational design: value streams, transition, skills and roles, communities of practice, and Agile PMO

6 ECTS - Preparation for certifications and PM Game

• Previous comprehensive review of PMBOK (Areas of Knowledge, Groups, etc.)
• Collaborative classroom practice simulation of recent real exams, on instructor’s question bank (discussion and reflections)
• Scrum.org PSM I preparation: test and simulation issues
• Collaborative simulation with "Project Management Game" tool

15 ECTS - MASTER’S THESIS

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.