PMP Certification Course

• Getting to know the participants
• Introduction to PMI®
• PMP® Certification – advantages
• PMP® certification – process and fees related information
• PMP® Application procedures – instructions on how to fill in the form
• PMP® examination – information on the split of questions, question pattern
• PMP® examination – Tips on how to prepare and take the examination (this theme will be reiterated throughout the course)
• PMP® – Fulfilling the CCR requirements
• Familiarization with course outline
• Familiarization with the protocols and timings
• Expectation setting and clarifications
• Introductory Quiz – to assess the current level of familiarization of the participants with PMBOK® concepts and assess the gaps.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTEXT

• Structure of PMBOK®
• Project Management vs. Product oriented Processes
• Description of five process groups in the Project Lifecycle and their interactions
• Characteristics and components of Process groups
• Mapping of Project Management Processes across the Process Groups and Knowledge Areas
• What are Projects?
• Projects vs. Operations
• Project Management
• Constraints and Assumptions
• The concept of Progressive Elaboration and Rolling wave planning
• The concept of Program Management and Portfolio Management
• The concept of Project Management Office (PMO)
• Types of PMO
• Tailoring PM Methodology
• Organizational Project Management
• Different Life cycles models – Predictive, Iterative & Agile
• Varying types of Project organizational structures – Functional, Matrix and Projectized – their advantages and disadvantages
• Project Management Business Documents
• Enterprise Environmental Factors
• Organizational Process Asset
• Introductory Quiz – Project Management Context.

PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT

• The role of Integration Management in Project execution
• Description of multiple ways in a Project can arise
• Project Charter – its characteristics
• Description of various Project selection methods – like mathematical models and financial criteria like ROI, NPV, IRR etc.
• Project Management Plan Development
• Contents of the Project Management Plan
• Managing Project knowledge
• Lessons Learned Register
• PMIS – its role in effective Project Management
• Directing and Managing Project Work
• The role of Configuration Management system in a Project environment
• Monitoring and Controlling Project Work
• Performing Integrated Change Control
• How to manage changes in a Project?
• Closing a Project ( or a Phase)
• Final Report preparation
• Emerging trends in Integration Management
• Considerations for Agile
• Quiz – Project Integration Management

PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT

• Project Scope vs. Product Scope and their interrelationships
• Importance of Scope Management Plan in the Project
• Collect Requirements process
• Requirement gathering techniques
• Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Define Scope Process
• Project Scope statement – how to prepare and update?
• WBS – its key role in Project Management
• Creating and Managing WBS
• Validate Scope process
• Scope Validation vs. Quality Control
• Control Scope process
• Emerging trends in Scope Management
• Considerations for Agile – Product Backlog

Quiz – Project Scope Management

PROJECT SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT

• Importance of Schedule Management in a Project environment
• Plan Schedule Management Process
• Define Activities process
• Sequence Activities process
• Multiple types of dependencies across activities
• Precedence Diagramming Method
• Estimating Activity Duration process
• Various duration estimating procedures – Top-Down, Bottom-up, Analogous, Parametric, Sprint planning meeting etc.
• The concept of Contingency in Schedule Management
• Develop Schedule Process
• The importance of calendars in the Scheduling process
• The importance of Critical Path in Project Management
• Critical Path computation and explanation of its characteristics
• Application of techniques like Fast tracking, Crashing, Resource Optimization, PERT etc in schedule development
• Use of Modeling techniques in Scheduling
• Agile Release Planning
• Schedule baseline
• Control Schedule process Revision of schedules
• Control schedule techniques
• Emerging trends in Schedule Management
• Quiz – Project Schedule Management

PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT

• The importance of Cost Management in Projects
• Project Lifecycle costing vs. Product Lifecycle costing
• Cost Management Plan and its use in Cost control
• Estimating Costs process
• Cost Management Plan and its use in Cost control
• Analogous, Parametric and Bottom-up methods of Cost estimating
• Determine Budget process
• Cost Baseline and its management
• Control costs process
• Cost and Schedule Performance Indices and their use in Forecasting
• Emerging trends in Cost Management
• Cost Management in Agile Methodologies
• Quiz – Project Cost Management

PROJECT QUALITY MANAGEMENT

• Project Quality vs. Product Quality
• Concepts of Quality Management
• Project Management vis-à-vis Quality Management
• Current themes in Quality Management
• Planning Quality Management process
• Project Quality Management Plan and Process Improvement Plan
• Manage Quality process
• Perform Control Quality process
• Tools of Quality Control – including Control Charts, Cause and Effect diagrams, Stratification, Checklists, Histograms, Scatter diagrams etc.
• Cost of Quality/ Cost of Non-Quality concepts
• Emerging Trends in Quality Management
• Quality Management in Agile
• Quiz – Project Quality Management