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First Period (12 credits)
Methodologies and tools for project management (4 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Methodologies and Tools section. Its purpose is for participants to learn and apply methodologies and tools for Project Management. This will give students greater ease in defining and developing project objectives, organizing information, analyzing project performance throughout its lifecycle, and making appropriate decisions. Furthermore, they will be able to initiate the digital transformation that a company needs for its projects and compete in a job market dominated by the digital revolution.
Fundamentals of projects (4 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the area of Project Management. Its purpose is for students to acquire the skills, techniques, and modern tools that will allow them to address changes, risks, and resource limitations. It also explores project management certification models and how they converge and relate to one another.
This document also presents the concepts and practices necessary to ensure proper integration and coordination of the different project elements. This aims to establish a continuous relationship between integration management processes and project management processes throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Complex problem solving and strategy (3 credits).
This course combines theory and practice within the field of Strategic Management. It provides participants with a comprehensive overview of the complex scenarios and digital transformation currently underway in businesses. The goal is for students to learn how to conduct strategic analyses of organizations, plan for the long term, implement strategies in the short and medium term, and make strategic decisions in every situation that arises throughout the project lifecycle.
The course encourages students to delve into real-world contexts of complex problems in order to analyze and identify possible strategic solutions that can be applied.
Research Fundamentals (1 credit).
This course falls under the Research and Certification area and is both theoretical and practical. It provides a general framework of fundamental research concepts. Furthermore, in this course, participants develop information literacy skills that enable them to develop, search for, evaluate, use, and create information to achieve the objectives of any type of project.
Second Period (12 credits)
Economic, financial, legal and risk analysis (4 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Methodologies and Tools area. It develops the basic concepts and fundamentals of corporate finance, enabling participants to evaluate the economic and financial feasibility of projects and generate financial alternatives to support decision-making within their companies.
The course also covers the legal aspects that govern a project's workflow, from its inception to its completion. This includes negotiating, monitoring, and finalizing contracts, as well as addressing requirements, restrictions, and the laws and regulations of both the organization and the context in which the project is developed.
Finally, analytical techniques are developed to understand and define the overall context of project risks, enabling proper risk identification and response plans. This increases the likelihood of positive outcomes and reduces the impact of negative events, such as delays, cost overruns, and performance deficits throughout the project lifecycle.
Project Management I (5 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Project Management area. In this course, participants learn to manage project integration, as well as to control and respond to changes in project scope.
The course covers the concepts for identifying and estimating the duration of activities and tasks, sequencing them, and developing a schedule management plan for project development. It also provides the knowledge and tools for planning project costs and investment, and teaches how to develop a quality assurance plan, audit quality requirements, and evaluate the results obtained from quality control measures.
The course encourages students to apply what they have learned to real projects and to analyze the processes that take place in them.
Finally, based on this knowledge, the subject provides the skills that a project manager must possess to successfully manage all the processes learned.
Strategic Project Formulation (2 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the area of Strategic Management. Its purpose is to enable students to deepen their understanding of the importance of the basic concepts, tools, and criteria of strategic formulation processes, necessary to define and achieve general and specific objectives, as well as to establish the vision and mission of the project.
The student will be able to perform a pre-feasibility analysis in order to plan the project they wish to carry out; and use tools to develop, communicate and implement a strategy, facilitating the achievement of results in the short and medium term.
Research methodology (1 credit).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Research and Certification area. Its objective is for students to internalize the concepts and importance of scientific knowledge and research for project execution. Therefore, it presents the various research methodologies that can be used, their characteristics, areas of application, advantages, and disadvantages.
This course will enable participants to define the object of study for a thesis that demonstrates proficiency in conceptual and methodological handling. They will also learn to make appropriate decisions regarding the set of techniques and methods they will employ to carry out their research activities, all while maintaining a participatory, reflective, and critical approach.
Third Period (12 credits)
Specialized projects (4 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Methodologies and Tools area. Its purpose is to analyze trends in different markets and industries, as well as the methodologies and tools developed in each field of Project Management, aligned with best practices. To meet the demands of a highly competitive and globalized environment, it addresses innovation focused on the continuous improvement of current processes. It also presents major projects currently underway in various industry sectors and the organizations responsible for them.
Project Management II (5 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Project Management area. It provides concepts about the processes and control and monitoring mechanisms used in projects. It also teaches the tools for managing communications within and outside the project, risks within and outside the project, and procurement during project development.
In this course, students learn to identify and analyze stakeholders, manage contracts, perform the administrative closure of a project, and document lessons learned. Participants are also encouraged to find solutions to real-world problems using agile methodologies.design thinking).
Finally, the subject continues to train the student in the skills of perspective, people and practice initiated in the Project Management I course.
Strategic management by competencies (2 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Strategic Management area. It develops the skills to strategically lead a team and achieve optimal project results. It provides a perspective on competencies from different approaches, such as self-development and peer-supported development.
It allows the student, while developing the project, to form a good work team, recognize the achievements of its members and lead the team to meet the expectations of the organization and achieve the success of the project.
Certification course by processes and by competencies (1 credit).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Research and Certification area. Its purpose is for students to develop a comprehensive body of knowledge in project management, both in terms of processes and competencies. The course aims to ensure that students understand, master, and successfully manage the 49 processes on which the Project Management Institute (PMI) bases its framework, and develop the 28 competencies on which the International Project Management Association (IPMA) bases its project management framework.
Fourth Period (12 credits)
Project evaluation (4 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Methodologies and Tools area. It teaches the types of evaluations, methodologies, and tools that provide a scientific basis for decision-making in the field of projects and programs. Furthermore, it encourages students to design evaluations that help improve interventions and provide criteria for understanding the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, usefulness, and sustainability of the projects and programs being evaluated. Students will also learn to collect, analyze, and synthesize information using critical thinking, in order to present value judgments, conclusions, and recommendations.
Foresight, Portfolios, Programs, Maturity Models and PMO (4 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the Project Management area. It explores the differences between projects, programs, and portfolios, as well as the project excellence model and the organizational maturity model for Project Management. The aim is for students to put into practice the concepts related to managing a portfolio of programs and projects.
Furthermore, the course provides participants with a comprehensive overview of methodologies for developing prospective scenarios. The aim is for them to understand prospective analysis techniques and be prepared to develop their company's strategic plan with a future-oriented vision.
Person, family and projects (3 credits).
This theoretical and practical course belongs to the area of Strategic Management. It aims to help participants better understand their own personal reality as decision-makers who assume their responsibilities, and how the social and economic environment affects individuals and their primary social group, the family. It provides knowledge and tools so that participants can evaluate the consequences of their decisions in advance, considering their impact not only professionally but also on their life plans.
Research project (1 credit).
This theoretical-practical course belongs to the Research and Certification area. Its purpose is to follow up on and complete the thesis project that students have been developing throughout the master's program. Participants will apply various tools that will allow them to carry out the sequential stages of their research, applying the knowledge acquired during the master's program.
It is geared towards helping students successfully defend their thesis, which involves presenting a report with the research results that meets the established requirements.
