Master in Project Management
Barcelona, Spain
DURATION
14 Months
LANGUAGES
Spanish, English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 18,900
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
Introduction
EAE Barcelona’s Master’s in Project Management will provide you with the most recent syllabus from the Project Management Institute (PMBOK7; recently published by the PMI) so that you can sit for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate.
It’s an eminently practical master’s degree that uses the latest generation of software in order to simulate areas and processes related to management.
It’s designed to train executives who know how to manage, plan, organise and control complex global projects in an efficient manner. You will develop personal skills that will help you improve your team’s performance as well as your own.
Key Points
Decision-Making
You will successfully lead complex projects that are vital in the global strategy of the company. You will boost your decision-making skills, taking into consideration all the technical, economic, quality, environmental and risk exposure aspects involved.
Triple Impact
You will gain expertise in the three Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid methodologies using the PMBOK7®, SCRUM and KANBAN (SCRANBAN) frameworks and the key Agile Scaling frameworks: Scrum@ScaleTM, SAFe®5.1, Large-Scale Scrum and NEXUSTM.+D84:D84:D89
Professional Certification
You will prepare to get the world's highest impact WATERFALL certification: Project Management Professional (PMP®) from the Project Management Institute (PMI®), as well as Agile, ESF® and ESM® accreditation from EuropeanScrum.org.
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Admissions
Curriculum
Business and Projects in Vuca Environments
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
- The 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 the "Project Management Game" tool
Rankings
- #2 Spain and #25 Europe - EdUniversal Ranking Best Masters
- #5 Spain
- #1 Spain - The World
Career Opportunities
There are many professional paths you can choose and we’ll be there, right next to you, no matter which one you choose.
As a student of EAE, you’ll enjoy a career plan made to suit you. Thanks to our Careers Department and EAE Entrepreneur, you will gain access to personalised support and academic training services that will multiply your professional opportunities, extending them to any country in the world.
55% of Our students found opportunities before graduation and 45% after graduation
- Project Director
- R+D+I Director
- Quality Director
- Process Director
- Risk Director
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Project Leader
- Project Manager
- Risk Manager
- Head of Project and Business Continuity
Program Leaders
English Language Requirements
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