PMP course

Course Overview:

• The PMP® credential is by far the most recognized in world-wide, with the number of credential holders growing exponentially year-on-year. Many employers and customers today necessitate that a Project Manager should hold a PMP® Certification.
• This course provides attendees with the necessary understanding of how to pass the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®’s) Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification examination. The course is based on PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Sixth Edition and is constantly updated on the best exam taking strategies and study tips. The course also includes comprehensive study material, student notes, and sample questions, as well as sample exams.
• This course was developed to provide a comprehensive review of the five process groups and the ten knowledge areas in the PMBOK® Guide, 6th edition. Supplemental material also tested on the exam will be included preparing you to confidently sit for and pass the PMP® exam. This course satisfies and exceeds the requirement of 35 hours of formal project management training mandated by PMI® as a prerequisite for the PMP® certification.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction

• • Benefits of PMP certification
  • Review of the certification process

2. Project Management Framework

• • Definitions
  • Project management context
  • Project life cycles
  • Project stakeholders
  • PMBOK® Guide process groups, knowledge areas and process model

3. Project Integration Management

• • Understanding project success
  • Competing demands
  • The Project Sponsor
  • Integrated planning
  • Project selection methods
  • Develop project charter
  • Develop project management plan
  • Key project planning deliverables
  • Direct and manage project execution
  • Monitor and control project work
  • Perform integrated change control
  • Close project or phase

4. Project Scope Management

• • Collect requirements
  • Define scope
  • Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Work package relationship to cost accounts
  • Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
  • Verify and control scope
  • Manage scope creep

5. Project Schedule Management

• • Define activities
  • Estimate activity resources and durations
  • Sequence activities
  • Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
  • Develop schedule
  • Techniques: Critical Path Method (CPM)
  • Critical chain technique
  • Schedule compression techniques & Reserve Schedule

6. Project Cost Management

• • Estimate costs
  • Estimating checklist
  • Standard project estimating
  • Determine budget
  • Cost baseline – defined
  • Control costs
  • Earned Value Management (EVM)

7. Project Quality Management

• • Definition of quality and quality terms
  • Quality movement – major contributors
  • Project quality management
  • Plan quality
  • Perform Quality Assurance (QA)
  • Perform Quality Control (QC)
  • Important quality tools and techniques

8. Project Resource Management

• • Organizational influences
  • Characteristics of organizational structures
  • Develop Resources plan
  • Enterprise environmental factors
  • Constraints affecting Resource planning
  • Staff management plans and acquisition
  • Develop and manage project team
  • Stages of team building
  • Principles of leadership
  • Understanding human behavior

9. Project Communication Management

• • Identify stakeholders
  • Plan communications
  • Communication requirements analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Distribute information
  • Manage stakeholders’ expectations
  • Communication styles and dimensions
  • Report performance

10. Project Risk Management

• • Plan risk management
  • Identify project risks (positive and negative)
  • Perform qualitative risk analysis
  • Perform quantitative risk analysis
  • Plan risk responses (positive and negative)
  • Monitor and control risk

11. Project Procurement Management

• • Procurement management – processes
  • Plan procurements
  • Types of contracts and risks
  • Calculating contract cost
  • Conduct procurements
  • Types of procurement documents
  • Evaluation criteria
  • Negotiation tactics
  • Elements of a contract
  • Administer procurements
  • Close procurements

12. Stakeholders Management

• • Identify Stakeholders
  • Plan Stakeholder Management
  • Manage Stakeholder Engagement
  • Control Stakeholder Engagement

13. Professional and Social Responsibility

• • PMI Code of professional conduct

14. PMP Exam Review

• • The PMP certification process
  • PMP eligibility requirements
  • PMP Sample Exam

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the project management language, best practices, tools and techniques, and tips to assist you in taking, and passing your PMP® exam.
• Interpret exam questions and focus your study time on topics that need the most attention.
• Learn proven test taking skills to write your PMP® exam and utilize your personal test taking strategy.
• Be competent in utilizing Project Management best practices as outlined in Project Management body of knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) in your work.
• Manage projects in compliance with the Project Management Institute (PMI®) standards.
• Use the project management framework, processes and the ten project management knowledge areas.
• Use Project Management Book of Knowledge “PMBOK – Sixth Edition” and understand the PMP® exam Certification requirements and tips for passing the exam.
• Apply Project Management skills, tools and techniques to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Master key concepts not mentioned in the “PMBOK – Sixth Edition”.