Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification Preparation

Course details

OMCT's Project Management Professional - PMP Exam Preparation training course, get ready to learn and pass the PMP exam on the first attempt and become a certified Project Management Professional from PMI.

*Fees does not include examination fee.

COURSE OUTLINE

Introductions
•    Introducing the instructor and the attendees
•    Details of the course format, agenda, team expectations, break timings, etc…
•    Who is PMI? What is the PMBOK Guide?
•    The PMP certification process
•    The PMP Exam & passing strategy

Introduction & Project Management Concepts
•    Project management context, life cycles, phases, stakeholders
•    Projects, Operations & Organizational Strategy
•    Project roles & responsibilities
•    Organizational influences on Project Management
•    The Knowledge Areas and Process Groups

Project Integration Management
•    Inputs-processes-outputs of Integration Management
•    Developing the Project Charter
•    Developing the Project Plan
•    Project Execution, Monitoring & Controlling
•    Integrated Change Control process
•    Project Closeout

Project Scope Management
•    Planning Scope Management
•    Collecting project requirements
•    Defining project scope and developing the Project Scope Statement
•    Creating the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
•    Validating scope and completed deliverables
•    Controlling project scope & Scope Creep

Project Time Management
•    The Schedule Management Plan
•    Defining schedule activities & milestones
•    Sequencing activities, types of dependencies & relationships, PDMs, network diagrams
•    Estimation techniques, PERT estimates, identifying and estimating project resource needs
•    Estimating project duration, developing the project schedule baseline
•    Critical Path Method (CPM), schedule optimization and control
•    Special overview of Critical Path calculations including Float, Activity Early and Late Start, Leads & Lags

Project Cost Management
•    Developing the Cost Management Plan
•    Estimating activity costs, types of estimates
•    Determining project budget and funding requirements
•    Controlling project costs using Earned Value Management (EV)
•    Special overview of EV calculations; CPI, SPI, CV, SV, EAC, ETC, Trend analysis and Forecasting
•    Special overview of financial concepts; Net Present Value, Opportunity Cost, BCR, IRR, Sunk Costs

Project Quality Management
•    Quality goals & concepts, quality pioneers, PDCA cycle
•    Quality planning, cost of quality, marginal analysis
•    Quality management techniques, Control Charts, Six Sigma & Standard Deviation review
•    Quality Assurance, Quality Audits
•    Quality Control & techniques, Cause& Effect diagrams, Pareto Charts, Scatter Diagrams

Human Resource Management
•    Role of the Project Manager in HR, developing the HR Plan
•    Organization Charts, RACI, Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
•    Project Roles and Responsibilities
•    Staff acquisition and assignment, Resource Calendars
•    Project team development, Team Building, Team performance assessment
•    Managing the project team, conflict management, problem-solving
•    Management and Leadership styles, types of power, motivation theory

Project Communication Management
•    Types & dimensions of project communication, the communication model
•    Effective communication & listening, communication blockers
•    Developing the Communications Management Plan
•    Managing Communications
•    Controlling Communications

Project Risk Management
•    Elements of project risk, risk drivers, types of risks
•    Stakeholder risk tolerance
•    Developing the Risk Management Plan
•    Identifying project risks; SWOT, checklist analysis, diagramming techniques
•    Developing the Risk Register
•    Qualitative Risk Analysis, probability & impact matrix, risk scores, Risk Breakdown Structure
•    Quantitative Risk Analysis, modeling & simulation techniques
•    Decision trees, Monte Carlo analysis
•    Risk response planning; strategies for negative and positive risks
•    Risk response action plans, contingency plans, contingency reserve
•    Monitoring and controlling project risks

Project Procurement Management
•    Procurement Planning Process, Make or Buy Analysis, Source selection
•    Types of contracts; fixed, cost reimbursable, time & material
•    Conducting procurement (tender & bid), seller solicitation, proposal evaluation and seller selection
•    Controlling procurements, contract change control, performance review, audits & inspections
•    Closing procurements, contract closeout, procurement audits, early termination process
•    Contract negotiations

Project Stakeholder Management
•    Project stakeholders; identification & analysis
•    Developing a Stakeholder Management Plan
•    Managing stakeholder engagement
•    Controlling stakeholder engagement

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION:
At the completion of this training program, attendees will each be awarded PMI Endorsed Certificates worth 40 Professional Development Units (PDU's),  which be used towards the hours needed for applying and sitting for the PMP professional certification exam Updated on 06 August, 2018