Creativity and Brainstorming
Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends. — Aeschylus First of all, let us declare that we are all [...]
¿Qué nos Motiva a Trabajar en Equipo?
Al pensar lo que diferencia un equipo muy exitoso de otro menos exitoso, sería razonable pensar que el equipo más exitoso estaba conformado por perfiles de personas más calificadas. La [...]
Success story: MPM student with PMP certification
The Master in Project Management program, of the University for International Cooperation, helps its students to prepare for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification, from the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. [...]
Moodle: as an online learning management system
The University for International Cooperation has been using, with great success, for the past 10 years ago, the software Moodle (acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) as an online [...]
The importance of precise specifications in Project Procurement Management
In http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/cheshire-cat, you can find this quote from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland story, taken from a conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat: “Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who [...]
Is Agile Risk Management what You Need for your Projects?
Undoubtedly project management is a discipline that requires many projections, forecasts, analysis, assumptions and other elements that help us formulating our plans. Nowadays, agile project management has been growing popular [...]
Human factors in Risk Assessment
Risk assessment methodologies are based on objective and intuitive risk factors, such as probability and impact. Others methodologies adopt more sophisticated risk factors such as urgency or data quality. Regardless of the efforts [...]
Knowledge, skills and competencies
Education is divided into three main categories; formal, non-formal and informal. School and universities focus in formal education, while training centers focus in non-formal and each student is responsible in [...]
Project Management Baselines – Schedule Baseline
The baseline concept is of the utmost importance in project management, therefore a professional project manager must understand and apply it if he or she wants to be a [...]
Organizational Culture and Quality
The organizational culture involves the norms of behavior and shared values of individuals working for the same company or environment. There are companies known for a culture focus on providing excellent [...]
UCI receives Partner of the Year Award from GPM Global
We at UCI are greatly proud and honored to have recently received the 2016 Partner of the Year Award from the Green Project Management organization, also known as GPM Global. [...]
The Legacy: Project Management for Peace
In occasion of the first global virtual conference on Sustainability in Project Management [1], organized by Ron Schipper and Gilbert Silvius [2], early this year, I had the honor to [...]
Sustainable Project Principles help with creating a bully- free workplace
By Mónica González, MBA, PMP, GPM, GPM-m May, 2016 After reading the impressive research paper titled Profit, Productivity & Peace – The Business Case for Eliminating Workplace Bullying (Pelletier, 2016), [...]
Project Management Baselines – Scope Baseline
By Carlos Brenes, MAP, PMP Professor of the Degree and Graduation Seminar course in the Master in Project Management Program at the University for International Cooperation. December, 2015 The [...]
Understand stakeholders risk attitude
By Henrique Moura, PMP, RMP, ACP, EVP, ITIL, PSM Professor of the Introduction to Project Management course in the Master in Project Management Program at the University for International Cooperation. December, [...]