List of Required Courses to Complete the Degree
PMG 711
Advanced Project Management
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of Teaching
Online Learning
Mode of Assessment
Online Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
The PMG 711 Advanced Project Management module provides constituents of a project team or team leaders with the crucial skills and the most delinquent emerging tools and practices related to Project Management in a modern environment. Course participants will mature their skills and competencies by analysing the project management maturity model and discovering to develop effective procedural documentation. the participants will be able to analyse project management competency benchmarks to implement successive advancement concepts, significantly in ability planning. This module will also supply course participants with the skills and methods related to important dimensions of the project management related to task estimations and controlling the execution of a critical chain project for enhancing the critical path.
PMG 712
Project Risk Management
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
Project risk management is the process of identifying, assessing, and responding to unexpected risks that might affect your project’s goals and progress. Simply put, project risk management is a process that aims to reduce project risks that have already occurred, are occurring, or are likely to occur in the future. In this module, students will learn how to use project risk management techniques to proactively plan, assess, monitor, control, document, and close out their risk management activities on a project successfully.
PMG 713
Project Leadership
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
Having strong leadership and communication skills is foundational to building lasting business relationships that drive project and professional success. Therefore, a key skill set that a project leader must master is the understanding and application of a flexible management style that is reflective of the multidisciplinary and multicultural milieu of PM practice. The focus of this course is on the key topics required to be an effective project manager, manage stakeholders, and build trust including communication, conflict resolution, team formation, evaluation and development, as well as, managing and motivating team members.
PMG 714
Supply Chain Management
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
What is the essence of Supply Chain Management (SCM)? How does it relate to Advanced Planning? In which sense are the underlying planning concepts “advanced”? What are the origins of SCM? These as well as related questions will be answered in this chapter.
RSC 701
Research Methods
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
The module RSC 701: Research Methods is prepared for the learners who want and need to gain an understanding in research approaches and skills to deploy research methods in their studies. In particular, this module will direct the students on the track to go about their dissertation as part of their postgraduate studies. The module exposes learners to advanced and applied research methods in academic research to solve complex practical problems. This module contains quantitative, qualitative, and constructive research methods. Moreover, the module is a complete introduction to the research methods. It covers broad subjects such as the fundamentals of doing research, research methods, research design, data collection, and data analysis. The ethical implications of the research are covered in this module. It places the student experience at the core of the businesses by engaging the learners in a scope of powerful and challenging discussions and techniques. Learners will have the opportunity to discover by accomplishing all aspects of the course in the online classroom, and out of the online classroom assignments.
PMG 715
Project Resources and Time Management
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
A project is a distinct, temporary endeavour undertaken to attain planned goals. Project management is the application of methods, knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve the project goals, within a predetermined time frame and set budgets. Project management includes managing resources (personnel, budgets), tasks, and risks. Time management is the process of consciously planning and exerting the control of time spent on specific tasks in order to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and thus production. Time management is therefore the key for a project success.
This module provides skills in creating a project resources management plan, estimating resources, acquiring resources, developing the team, managing the team and controlling physical resources.
PMG 722
Project Financial Management
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
Project costing and financial management are among the most thought-provoking and critical facets of the project management process. Under tighter budgets and increasingly competitive work environments, stakeholders need to build value for all money spent. The ability to determine and assess funding options and schemes is vital to effective project management.
This Module aims to equip the non-financial managers with knowledge in core financial principles and improve their financial decision making in this ever-changing business environment. This module will help managers understand how the decisions they make will affect the financial performance of their organization.
PMG 723
Agile Project Management
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
Students who complete this course will have the knowledge and abilities to master the fundamentals of agility and agile project management.
This course will cover the history, methodology, and philosophy of agile project management and the Scrum framework. Students will discover how to distinguish between and combine Agile with other project management methodologies.
Students gain knowledge of how to implement Agile’s value-driven delivery strategies to create the product vision and roadmap. Students also discover how to build, manage, and refine a product backlog, define user roles, and compose user stories using the organizational strategy as the cornerstone. Other subjects studied are project selection, chartering, scrum, Kanban, team development, release planning, value assignment, retrospectives, and risk management. Agile culture and ethics are also covered.
Students learn by doing through encouragement to apply acquired skills and knowledge learned throughout the course immediately to their own projects learn by doing, using their own projects for most activities. Students with prior agile experience have the chance to develop their abilities and put those techniques into practice in the course.
PMG 724
Programme and Portfolio Management
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
This course provides a deep understanding of programme and portfolios management. It will allow students to learn to assess the crucial success criteria that line up with the organization’s strategic goals and to outline the appropriate management methods for such a portfolio. They will also be able to create a programme management strategy that makes use of best practices for organizing resources, scheduling tasks, allocating funds, and managing risks throughout the entire organization. Additionally, students will learn how to use project analytics data to make wise decisions as well as get in-depth practical knowledge of enterprise technologies used in organizations to plan and manage a portfolio of programs and projects.
PMG 725
Global Projects Management
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Quizzes, Assignments, & Exams
The PMG 725 Global Projects Management module will qualify members of a project team or team leaders with the necessary skills and practices required to execute successful projects in different communities from the beginning to the business pre-opening phase. Studying this module will support the practice different skills from different cultures to effectively manage projects and staff on time and on budget globally. In today’s world, successful businesses are being run more on project basis. The managers who wish to achieve successful projects need to know more about project management skills between the different countries. The aim of this module is to show project leaders how to direct a project team, manage and co-ordinate actions to complete the tasks in time and with the target budget from different environments.
PMG 761
Dissertations
Compulsory – 6 ECTS – MQF Level 7
Mode of TeachingOnline Learning
Mode of AssessmentOnline Project
The module PMG 761: Dissertations provides many opportunities for the researcher to contribute new theories and information to the existing literature in the research field. This module develops a unique concept and defends it with the basis of theoretical and practical results. The dissertation module includes a research proposal, grant proposal, literature review, research topic, and every other minute detail about the research. Typically, a dissertation allows students to present their findings in response to a question or proposition. The dissertation module requires a deep and accurate understanding of the research problem, critical technical and soft skills, time management, and academic writing skills.