Knowledge:

• Distinguish different types of projects and their life cycles: predictives, adaptatives and hybrids.
• Acquire and show understanding regarding the managing of the project management knowledge areas: scope, time, cost, procurement, resources, communication, quality, risks and integration.
• Understand the agile principles and the framework of Scrum.
• Elaborate different kind of plans that are required throughout the project.
• Manage each member of the project team.
• Analyze the quality of the intermediate and final products of the project, in such a way that the established standards are met and the customer´s requirements are achieved.
• Validate criteria and information in order to develop strategies for the project administration and its relation with the company.
• Analyze the circumstances of the project and define work lines for a successful project administration.
• Understand the need for proper project formulation for approval prior to project start-up.

Abilities:

• Apply the standards, methods, techniques, and tools that make easier the assembly quality products with high productivity for the project team members.
• Promote a proactive attitude towards the horizon of the project, in such a way that the project manager and the team members keep constant vigilance of the environment and the possible risks that your project may face.
• Utilize tools and integral instruction at leadership levels, in the negotiation and decision making areas. This is essential as change makers and Project managers.
• Utilize tools that allow to experiment and apply the best methodological practices, facilitating the integration of the work teams and generating quality products/services using other standards.
• Be able to apply for career opportunities that correspond to high level of decision making or project management.
• Be able to prepare the environment to handle situations where your leaderships are being challenged and you have to take the right decisions to optimize the resources to carry out an appropriate project management.
• Encourage the improvement of skills like developing and managing work teams in order to strengthening skills for project management.
• Apply strategic methodologies in the project management area that facilitate the acquisition of technological information in a timely manner through new tools.
• Be able to manage remote projects in collaborative environments.
• Apply the Agile Practical Guide, particularity how to implement SCRUM methodologies and demonstrate it in the certification exam.
• Integrate the criteria and principles of Regenerative Development in the projects that are being worked in the academic, professional and personal spheres, recognizing and applying a balance between the social, environmental, landscape, cultural, spiritual and economic dimensions, and apply management methodologies as the published by GPM® Global’s (PRISM TM ).

Values and attitudes:

• Relate all the capabilities in a creative, dynamic, critical, responsible with society teaching-learning process, by strengthening capacities in project management, decision-making and leadership.
• Apply all the skills to manage the projects under his/her charge with ethic, fairness, justice and responsibility.
• Demonstrate greater interest in specializing in leadership and decision making, which increase its competitiveness in the successful project management.
• Use the knowledge to monitor efficiently and effectively that the project’s management fulfill the rules and regulations established in the global parameters

General Objective of the Program

Perform the higher education for professionals in project management, capable of performing achieving the success of their projects in private and public organizations, taking into account the main critical factors of success like: time, budget, product and strategic objectives.

Specific Objective of the Program

• Analyze the general framework of work and the typical phases of a project.
• Analyze the updated methodologies, procedures and tools for planning, estimation and control of the resources available in the project management to get the most output possible.
• Analyze the necessary knowledge areas that the project managers must have to achieve success in their management.
• Prepare capable professionals of giving timely and informed recommendations to the organizations and other stakeholders in the project management process.
• Prepare the human resources to improve the project management process in public and private organizations.
• Encourage the formation of specialized professionals who can assume teaching tasks in the project management area, and in this way, consolidate the multiplier process of their own learning.
• Prepare conscious and well-educated human resources to interpret the reality and recommend improvement options in terms of project management.
• Understand agile frameworks and obtain knowledge regarding how to manage a project using agile methodologies, as well as to get the training needed to earn Professional Scrum Master I certification.
• Integrate and apply the concepts of Regenerative Development and Sustainable Development through the implementation of methodologies and sustainability approaches of Green Project Management.

Mission

To be an international and multidisciplinary center dedicated to professional training and to the promotion of good practices in project management, in order to support the construction of an intelligent global society with universal ethics.

Vision

To be recognized as a center that researches, innovates, teaches and practices the professional management of projects tu support the regenerative and evolutionary development of an inclusive, complex, diverse and changing society.

Professionals from all sectors, including business, technology, engineering, architecture, agriculture, forestry, environment and social disciplines., among others, who hold a bachelor’s degree or higher and who wish to improve their skills in project management. It is also intended for professionals from other disciplines who are involved in supporting project management activities, projectized offices, and consulting firms.

Specific requirements:

• Bachelor or Licenciate academic degree, as a minimum.
• Sufficient command of the English language (must be able to study and understand learning or reference documents in this language)
• Fluid communication skills through virtual means and email, as well as familiarity with the dynamics of social networks.
• Previous professional experience in projects is desirable, but not required (at least one year of professional involvement in a project management environment), as well as basic knowledge of finance and accounting.
• Management of software tools and affinity with virtual work and communication.
• Positive predisposition to collaborative work, continuous improvement, applied research and self-discipline.

The students are responsible for registering and remaining as active members of PMI (for more information, visit http://www.pmi.org/Membership.aspx) throughout the duration of their studies in MPM, which will provide access to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) – Seventh Edition, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, and to an important quantity of standards, documents and communities of practice. Some of these resources will be required as study materials for program courses. Also, in some courses it might be necessary for the students to acquire textbooks and other learning resources for which they will be timely informed.

PMBOK is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc

The full program has a duration of 4 cycles. A cycle contains three consecutive 5 week courses, and are studied one by one, in the order indicated in the table shown below. The teaching-learning process allows our professionals to develop the skills and capabilities needed to conduct large-scale projects.

** The order of the courses may vary.

Addional benefits of the Program

• The students receive a Microsoft Project® software license, for personal use.
• Throughout the master’s program, students are prepared to take the certification exams required to obtain the PMP^® and CAPM^® credentials.  Also, in the Special Topics in Project Management II course, they are prepared for taking the certification exam as Green Project Manager level b.
• For students who are already have the PMP^® credential, courses may grant them up to 40 PDUs. These PDUs can be used as part of the requirements to renew their certification. The process for the accreditation of PDUs must be done by the students directly with PMI.

Please notice that students or graduates who wish to opt for a certification from PMI must complete their own procedures for certification directly with PMI.

PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.