PMP Project Management Professional

Course details

PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential is the most important industry-recognized certification for project managers. Globally recognized and demanded, the PMP®demonstrates that you have the experience, education and competency to lead and direct projects.

This recognition is seen through increased marketability to employers and higher salary; according to the PMI Project Management Salary Survey–Eighth Edition, certification positively impacts project manager salaries.

PMP importance

Initiating the Project

• Cost-benefit analysis
• Business case development
• Project selection criteria (for example, cost. feasibility, impact)
• Stakeholder identification techniques
• Risk identification techniques
• Elements of a project charter

Planning the Project

• Requirements gathering techniques
• Work breakdown structure (WBS) tools and techniques
• Time, budget, and cost estimation techniques
• Scope management techniques
• Resource planning process
• Workflow diagramming techniques
• Types and uses of organization charts
• Elements, purpose, and techniques of project planning
• Elements, purpose, and techniques of communications planning
• Elements, purpose, and techniques of procurement planning
• Elements, purpose, and techniques of quality management planning
• Elements, purpose, and techniques of change management planning
• Elements, purpose, and techniques of risk management planning

Executing the Project

• Performance measurement and tracking techniques (for example, EV, CPM,PERT)
• Project control limits (for example, thresholds, tolerance)
• Project performance metrics (for example, efforts, costs, milestones)
• Cost analysis techniques
• Variance and trend analysis techniques
• Project plan management techniques
• Change management techniques
• Integrated change control processes
• Risk identification and analysis techniques
• Risk response techniques (for example, transference, mitigation, insurance, acceptance)
• Problem solving techniques (including root cause analysis)
• Reporting procedures

Closing the Project

• Contract closure requirements
• Basic project accounting principles
• Close-out procedures
• Feedback techniques
• Project review techniques
• Archiving techniques and statutes
• Compliance (statute/organization)
• Transition planning techniques
• Active listening
• Brainstorming techniques
• Conflict resolution techniques
• Cultural sensitivity and diversity
• Data gathering techniques
• Decision making techniques
• Facilitation
• Information management tools, techniques, and methods
• Leadership tools and techniques
• Negotiating
• Oral and written communication techniques, channels, and applications
• PMl's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
• Presentation tools and techniques
• Prioritization/time management
• Problem-solving tools and techniques
• Project management software
• Relationship management
• Stakeholder impact analysis
• Targeting communications to intended audiences (for example, team, stakeholders, customers)
• Tearn motivation methods

The PMP Subject Area

• Domain I Initiating the Project
• Domain II Planning the Project
• Domain III Executing the Project
• Domain IV Monitoring and Controlling the Project
• Domain V Closing the Project