Project Management module

Summer school

Project Management

Paris campus, 15 - 19 July 2019

Large projects are increasingly complex, relying on sophisticated organisational and contractual schemes. They are designed, planned and often implemented with a large diversity of international stakeholders.

Future managers need to be equipped with critical skills covering: design and negotiation of complex contracts, risk analysis, planning techniques, inter-cultural team management, legal and financial aspects of partnership schemes, crisis management, project recovery plans, and much more.

Course objectives

Acquire project management knowledge and tools to be an effective manager.
Train international managers with professional capture strategies and negotiation tools and techniques.
Train participants in real negotiation situations to reach an initial level of expertise.
Prepare participants to be able to manage crisis events.

Programme structure and content

The programme is made up of three modules:

Initial capture strategies and negotiations
Knowledge of area (PMBOK)
Crisis management and project recovery.

Learning outcomes

Participants will be able to:

Understand and implement tools and techniques of international capture strategies
Understand the current state of the project management profession
Apply project management tools and techniques
Understand and implement tools and techniques of crisis events (price, delivery time, risks...)
Understand the PMBoK philosophy and core processes.
Understand project management terminology with focus on the PMI PMBok.
Explore the appropriate methods to initiate, plan, execute, control and close projects.

Teaching approach

Project-based learning (PBL) approach:

Through this PBL approach, participants are actively involved in the learning process through exercises, real case studies and real life group discussions.

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