Mariano Gálvez University of GuatemalaFaculty

of Administration SciencesPostgraduate Studies Department

I. ID

1. Master's Degree: Business Administration with a Major in Information

Technology

2. Course: Project Management

II. Goals

1. General

To develop in the student the ability to analyze problems and make decisions
in the development, evaluation and management of projects, through a set of
formulation and administration tools and techniques, aimed at providing
general and specific criteria that regulate and optimize the process to properly
manage these decisions on both private and social projects.

2. Specific

• Introduce students to the different feasibility studies of a Project, as an

opportunity to create value in the company, when designing proposals that are
viable and sustainable over time.
• Design planning and strategies based on project evaluation, carrying out an
analysis of information from the different environments surrounding the project
under study, as well as different future scenarios.
• Know the different methodologies for project management, with emphasis on
the one developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

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 III. Management Skills
1. Generic

a. Solving problems creatively

It is the ability to solve, perfect, explain and generate a set of facts or

circumstances that hinder the achievement of a goal, through the creation
of new ideas and advances, through the application of methodologies,
including radical ones, in the solution of problems; looking for options that
improve the current, focusing on the achievement of goals achieved with
creativity, through teamwork, multidisciplinary participation and the
coordination of people.

b. Leading positive change

It is the personal ability to create and develop, establishing an authentic

and real environment, creating the condition for change; articulating a
future vision oriented towards abundance, generating commitment and
institutionalizing the transformation.

c. Investigate

It is the ability to do due diligence to discover or delve into the study of a

phenomenon. This skill is related to: the capacity for abstraction, analysis
and synthesis; the capacity for oral and written communication; the
capacity to learn and update oneself permanently, thus promoting
autonomous learning; the ability to search, process and analyse
information from diverse sources; the capacity for criticism and self-
criticism; the capacity for creativity; and ethical commitment.

2. Specific

a. Develop strategies

Ability to plan strategies according to the needs of an organization, taking

into account variables and factors - quantitative, qualitative, organizational
and those related to power and behavior - that determine its functionality
and efficiency, to generate the maximum possible creation of value.

b. Prospecting finances

Ability to develop and carry out planning and valuation techniques to

ensure the future existence of the company, as well as to promote
informed decisions by investors, measure investment performance,
predict results, financing, operations and dividends, among other aspects,
in order to seek performance and receive returns, without having to take

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IV. Content

Week 1. Introduction to Projects and Life Cycle

• Project Basics
• Stages and life cycle of a project
• Project Classification
• Types of project evaluation
• Decision making associated with a project

Market Study
• Definition of product or service
• Target Market
• Price determination
• Demand Behavior
• Supply Behavior
• Marketing

Week 2. Feasibility Studies

Technical Study
• Project size and capacity
• Project location
• Process Description
• Determination of assets

Legal Administrative Study

• Administrative structure
• Organization
• Job Descriptions
• Legal Framework
• Tax Framework

Environmental Impact Study

• Description of the environmental setting
• Identification of Impacts
• Impact Management: Contingency Plans, Mitigation, Transfer, Acceptance
and Compensation
• Requirements for environmental impact studies (MARN)

Week 3. Preparation of the Financial Study of Projects

• Initial Investment Classification (Fixed, Deferred, Working Capital)

• Investment budget
• Project revenue and cost analysis (cash flow)
• Break even point

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Week 4. Financial evaluation and feasibility of projects

• Evaluation criteria
• Net Present Value (NPV)
• Internal rate of return (IRR)
• Payback period
• Benefit-cost ratio
• Annual Equivalent Cost
• Sensitivity analysis and scenarios

Week 5. Project management

Startup Process Group

• Project Management Concept and PMBOK v6
• Develop the Project Constitution Act
• Interested Parties Identification Matrix

Planning Process Group

• Plan theManagement of the scope
• Plan theManagement of the schedule
• Plan theManagement of the cost
• Plan theManagement of the quality
• Plan theManagement of human resources
• Plan theManagement of communications
• Plan theManagement of risks
• Plan theManagement of Acquisitions
• Planning Stakeholder Engagement

Week 6. Execution Process Group

• Direct and manage the work of the project

• Managing Quality
• Managing Communications
• Implementing Risk Response
• Carry out the Acquisitions
• Managing Stakeholder Engagement

Week 7. Monitoring and Control Process Group

• Monitoring and Controlling Project Work

• Perform Integrated Change Control
• Control the Schedule
• Controlling Costs
• Control Quality
• Monitoring Risks
• Monitoring Stakeholder Engagement

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Week 8. Closing Process Group / other methodologies

• Closing the acquisitions

• Project/phase closing minutes
• Traditional Methodologies vrs. Agile
• Other project methodologies (IPMA & Prince2)

Week 9. Case Study

• Presentation of the case study

• Validation of final projects

Week 10. Presentation of the Final Project

With knowledge, experience, and the cooperative and participative part, the group
will develop a project management project, under the PMI methodology,
demonstrating the application of some processes from the different areas of
knowledge.

Learning methodologies

1. Active Methodologies

a. Participatory master classes.

b. Laboratory resolution.
c. Document analysis.
d. Generator topic.
e. Collaborative project-based learning
f. Cooperative learning.

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 2. Other methodologies

a. Masterclass
b. Laboratory practices
c. Solving exercises
d. Troubleshooting
e. Project presentation
f. Presentation of a report based on collaborative projects
g. Document analysis
h. Scenario development

V. Assessment of learning

The course is passed with 70 pts. The techniques to be used to measure

student learning are:

• Workshops 25 points
• Profile of project 10 points
30 points
• Evidence short 15 points
• Case of study 20 points
• Final Project

VI. Learning activities schedule

DAY ISSUE METHODOLOGY GOALS

Introduction to Projects and Life Cycle

Market Study Understand the context

• Definition of product or
Participatory masterclass, of private and social
service
• Target Market problem solving, document investment projects
1 • Price determination analysis and case study
• Behavior of the
Demand
• Supply Behavior
Workshop 1
• Marketing

Technical Study
• Size and capacity of the Participatory master class,
project problem solving, document Acquire knowledge to
2
• Project location
analysis. develop project
feasibility studies
• Process Description Short Assessment 1
• Determination of assets

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 Legal Administrative Study
• Administrative structure
• Organization
• Job Descriptions
• Legal Framework
• Tax Framework
Preparation of the Financial Study
• Initial Investment Classification Acquire knowledge to
Participatory master class, prepare the project's
(Fixed, Deferred, Working
problem solving, document cash flow and budget
Capital)
3
• Investment budget
analysis
• Revenue and cost analysis of
Workshop 2
project (cash flow)
• Break even point
Evaluation and financial feasibility
• Evaluation criteria
• Net Present Value (NPV) Participatory master class,
Know and apply
• Internal rate of return (IRR) problem solving, document
different criteria for
financial evaluation of
4 • Recovery period of the analysis
projects; create
investment (payback) scenarios for project
• Benefit-cost ratio
Short Assessment 2
evaluation
• Annual Equivalent Cost
• Sensitivity analysis and
Startup Process Group
• Management Concept of
projects and PMBOK v6
5
• Develop the Act of
Participatory master class,
problem solving, document
Project Constitution
analysis Acquire knowledge to
• Identification matrix of the lead the project team
Interested parties as a Project Manager
Project profile delivery
Planning Process Group
• Plan Scope Management
• Planning Management of
schedule
• Planning Cost Management
• Planning the Management of the
quality
• Planning the Management of the
human resources
• Planning Management of the
communications
• Planning Risk Management
• Planning Management of the 7

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 • Planning the involvement of
Interested parties
Execution Process Group
• Direct and manage the work of
Project
Master class, participatory
• Managing Quality master class, document
Provide knowledge
6 • Managing Communications analysis
related to monitoring
the execution of
• Implement the Response to the investment projects.
Risks Workshop 3
• Carry out the Acquisitions
• Managing the Participation of the
Monitoring and Control Process
Group
• Monitor and Control the
Project Work
• Perform Integrated Control of Master class, participatory Acquire knowledge of
Changes master class. monitoring and
7
• Control the Schedule controlling project
• Controlling Costs Short Assessment 3 resources.
• Control Quality
• Monitoring Risks
• Monitoring Engagement
To those interested
Closing process group
• Closing the acquisitions
• Project/phase closing minutes
Participatory master class,
Gain knowledge of the
correct way to close a
Other project methodologies problem solving.
8 project; learn other
• Traditional Methodologies vrs.
Workshop 4
project management
Agile methodologies.
• Other methodologies of
projects (IPMA & Prince2)
Case Study Submit case study
• Presentation of the case of
9 Study
• Validation of final projects

Final Course Project Delivery Demonstrate the

Participatory presentation achievements of the
10
of the results of the final course objectives and
work present the results of
VII. Literature the work

• Sapag Chain, N., & Sapag Chain, R. (5th. Edition). Project preparation and
evaluation. Mcgraw-Hill.
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 • SL Tang. (2014). Construction Financial Management, Bookboon.com.

• Gallegos Anda, M. (2007). Guide for the Development of Productive and

Social Projects. Quito: Directorate of Coordination and Strengthening of
Member Entities.
• PMBoK, Version 6. (2017). Guide to the Project Management Body of
Knowledge. Project Management Institute, 6th edition, USA: Pennsylvania.

• GIDO, J., & CLEMENTS, J. P (2007). Successful Project Management, 3rd

Edition. Mexico: CENGAGE.

• Rivera Martínez, F., & Hernández Chavez, G. (2010). Project Management,

Learning Guide. Mexico: Prentice Hall Publishing House.

• Mejia Delgado, H. (2013). Comprehensive risk management and insurance.

Colombia: Ecoe Editions.

VIII. Egraphy

• http://estudiodefactibilidadyproyectos.blogspot.com/2010/09/factibilidad-y-
vía.html , (published September 2010)

• https://www.clarin.com/arq/construccion/determinar-factibilidad-
Proyecto_0_H1zHuRuw7x.htm (published January 2016)

• http://www.eumed.net/ce/2008b/tss.htm , Feasibility Study of an Investment

Project: Stages of a Study, published (November 2008)

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• https://www.pmi.cl/pmi/los-cambios-del-pmbok-6ta-edicion/

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