Project Management: Preparation for PMP Certification

Course Overview:

This course introduces all the concepts, tools and skills required for leaders and Managers within an organization to initiate, plan, execute and control any project effectively with successful completion and sustainment. The modules tackle areas that would develop the knowledge and skill in leading tasks and people throughout the project life cycle through a comprehensive explanation of the five process groups and ten knowledge areas related to project management. This course will not only add to the knowledge of the participants and direct them in applying the concepts to the real business but will prepare them to apply for the PMP Certification through going through the exam questions and requirements.

Learning Outcome:

  • Become familiar with Project Management Concepts and terms and understand the link between program, portfolio, and project management.
  • Understand the organizational impacts that affect the method selection used for managing projects
  • Understanding the various processes and activities of project management and how they integrate.
  • Identifying the project scope with all the tasks; predicting timeframes, costs and entailed budgets and plan the milestones, procurement steps.
  • Identify the project policies and required policies.
  • Ability to select the effective team and it.
  • Effective communication
  • Create a risk management plan.
  • Identify stakeholder expectations and their impact on the project.
  • Review the PMP exam requirements and application process

Course Features:

  • Worth 35 PDUs
  • PMI exam course fees not included
  • Project management simulation included.
  • Material and Handouts with Soft Copy included.

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Course Outline:

PMP credentials Overview

  • The Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • Credential overview
  • Exam overview
  • Application process
  • Questions format

PMP Introduction

  • The PMBOK guide
  • Project managers areas of concern
  • Portfolios, programs and projects
  • Project definition

Organizational Impacts and project life Cycle

  • Organizational types
  • Managing project constraints
  • Process groups
  • Knowledge areas

Quality Management

  • Plan quality management
  • Perform quality assurance
  • Control quality

Communications management

  • Plan communications management
  • Manage communications
  • Control communications

Integration Management

  • Develop project charter
  • Develop project management plan
  • Direct and manage project work
  • Monitor and control project work
  • Perform integrated change control
  • Close project or phase

Scope Management

  • Plan scope management
  • Collect requirements
  • Define scope
  • Create WBS
  • Validate scope
  • Control scope

Time Management

  • Plan schedule management
  • Define activities
  • Sequence activities
  • Estimate activity resources
  • Estimate activity durations
  • Develop schedule
  • Control schedule

Cost management

  • Plan cost management
  • Estimate costs
  • Determine budget
  • Control costs

Human resource management

  • Plan human resource management
  • Acquire project team
  • Develop project team
  • Manage project team

Risk management

  • Plan risk management
  • Identify risks
  • Perform qualitative risk analysis
  • Perform quantitative risk analysis
  • Plan risk responses
  • Control risks

Procurement management

  • Plan procurement management
  • Conduct procurements
  • Control procurements
  • Close procurements

Stakeholder management

  • Identify stakeholders
  • Plan stakeholder management
  • Manage stakeholder engagement
  • Control stakeholder engagement