CAPM® Certification Preparatory Course

Learning objective is to understand Project Management Foundational Concepts such as:

• Definitions of project, and project management
• Difference between project & operations
• Portfolio, program, and project management
• PM Framework and Process Groups
• Challenges in project management

Learning objective is to understand:

• Project performance domains and their significance
• Stakeholders in a project
• Project manager roles and responsibilities
• Emotional intelligence and people skills
• Project organization structures
• Effective project teams
• Enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets

Learning objective is to understand:

• Project life cycle and its phases, and deliverables
• Importance of development approaches and life cycle
• Various project life cycles and how to select right approach

Learning objective is to understand:

• When to use predictive approach
• Process groups of the predictive approach
• Project charter
• Purpose and process of developing a project management plan

• Components of the project management plan
• Requirements and scope management
• Defining scope, developing scope statement, and WBS
• Creating schedule
• Estimating costs and budget
• Estimating project resources
• Managing procurement
• Managing risks in projects
• Quality concepts
• Integrating various subsidiary plans into integrated project plan
• Planning changes management

Purpose and Process of Directing and Managing Project Work

• Acquiring resources
• Developing and managing teams
• Managing quality
• Managing project communications
• Managing stakeholder engagement
• Conducting procurement

Purpose and Process of Monitoring and Controlling Project Work

• Controlling costs, schedule, and scope
• Understanding Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Monitoring risks
• Validating scope and verification of quality
• Performing integrated change control
• Monitoring stakeholder engagement

Purpose and Process of Closing the Project or Phase

Learning objective is to understand:

• Team structure in adaptive projects
• Agile Manifesto, values and principles
• Concept of servant leadership
• Core principles supporting value-driven delivery

Conceptualizing the Product

• Developing product charter and product vision
• Product backlog
• Various prioritization techniques

Constructing and Delivering

• Prioritizing requirements
• Estimating effort
• Creating a prioritized backlog
• Creating time-boxed delivery iterations
• Release planning
• Creating iteration goals and tasks
• Managing issues and impediments
• Conducting review of iteration results
• Releasing increments to customers
• Conducting retrospectives
• Refining the backlog
• Measuring, monitoring, and controlling each iteration

Understand Various Frameworks

• Lean
• Scrum
• Kanban
• XP
• Feature-driven development
• DSDM
• Crystal
• SAFe
• Scrum of Scrums
• Disciplined Agile

Learning objective is to understand:

• Process of detecting and resolving problems
• Importance of measuring and monitoring performance
• Different types of uncertainties and strategies to deal with them

Learning objective is to understand:

• Importance of business analysis
• Roles of a business analyst and how it differs from the role of a project manager
• Process of gathering and analysing different types of business requirements
• Techniques used and documents created during requirements elicitation, analysis, traceability, monitoring, and evaluating the solution