PMP® Certification Preparatory Course

Lesson 1: Introduction to the course and PMP Exam +

Learning Objective

To understand the PMP® Preparation course organization and structure of PMP® Exam
To know about the PMP® Exam domains, the distribution of questions across the domains and PMP® Exam question types

Lesson 2: The Big Picture +

Learning Objective

To know and understand the definitions of Project and Project management
To understand Project life cycle and its importance, different development approaches and their application
To understand purpose and importance of project governance, its components, and governance structures in organizations
To understand PMO and what are the different types of PMOs
To understand portfolio, program and project management in an organization
To understand importance of defining “project success”
To understand organizational process assets

Lesson 3: Stakeholders, Vision, and Communication +

Learning Objective

To understand the roles and importance of stakeholders in a project
To understand the techniques to identify, analyze and classify stakeholders in a project
To understand stakeholder register, its content and importance
To understand the importance of managing stakeholder expectations, and tools and techniques for identifying and managing stakeholder expectations
To understand important of developing a shared vision, shared understanding of objectives and requirements
To understand project charter / project vision statement, its contents and importance
To understand the importance of creating, sharing, collaborating and delivering with project vision, and understand root cause of misunderstanding and misalignment with the project vision
To understand communication needs of stakeholders, and understand the importance of analyzing and tailoring communication to meet stakeholder needs and expectations
To understand various communication methods and channels for effective communication, and barriers to effective communication
To understand reporting requirements for meeting stakeholder expectations
To understand and appreciate the importance of leadership skills and competencies required for role of a project manager
To understand importance of Stakeholder Engagement Assessment matrix and Stakeholder Engagement plan

Lesson 4: Team, Conflict and Knowledge +

Learning Objective

To understand importance of leading and structuring project teams
To understand different roles in a project team, and importance of establishing clear roles and responsibilities in project teams
To understand importance of establishing expectations at team level
To understand different types of teams
To understand importance of team charter and establishing ground rules
To understand team development stages
To understand various motivational theories and their application in project team
To understand “Emotional Intelligence” and its applications in project teams
To understand importance of diversity and inclusion in project teams
To understand decision-making and problem solving
To understand conflict, its sources and resolution strategies
To understand the types of knowledge and importance of knowledge management and knowledge transfer in project

Lesson 5: Core planning +

A. Planning and Managing Project Scope

To understand how to define project scope and business value, and their importance
To understand the concepts of DoD and DoR in Adaptive projects
To understand the techniques used to collect project requirements
To understand tools and techniques for scope planning
To understand project scope statement, WBS and WBS dictionary and their importance in project planning
To understand scope definition in Adaptive projects with flexible scope
To understand the concepts of Epics, Stories, Story maps, Roadmaps
To understand various prioritization techniques
To understand Release and Product Backlog and Sprint backlog planning in adaptive projects

B. Planning and Managing Value Delivery and Benefits Measurement

To understand the concept of “Value” and different stakeholder perceptions of value
To understand importance of managing changes brought about by the project at the organisational level
To understand the importance of strategic alignment and value delivery
To understand the difference between incremental and iterative delivery approaches
To understand methods for benefit measurement, and
To understand OKR

C. Planning and Managing Risks

To understand the concept of “Risk”
To understand importance of creating risk management strategy
To understand techniques to identify and analyze risks
To understand risk monitoring and controlling and the process of developing a risk management plan
To understand importance of communicating about risks at project and organisational level

D. Planning and Managing Compliance in Projects

To understand the concept of compliance and its importance in projects
To understand different compliance requirements and categories
To understand compliance practices
To understand the consequences of non-compliance
To understand the approaches for measuring compliance

E. Planning and Managing finance

To understand techniques for estimating costs and various types of reserves
To understand cost baseline, budget planning and funding limit reconciliation
To understand techniques to track expenditures in predictive and adaptive projects
To understand how to report in financials terms, and various charts in adaptive projects
To understand forecasting, and variance analysis using Earned Value Management

F. Planning and Managing resources

To understand the resource calendars, Responsibility Assignment Matrix, Org Charts
To understand techniques to estimate resource requirements
To understand process of acquiring resources from external sources

Lesson 6: Integrated planning +

A. Developing Integrated Project Management Plan

To understand how to assess project needs, complexity and magnitude and recommend the project management approach
To understand how to tailor project management approaches
To understand and recommend execution strategy
To understand various project documents, and project management plan and its components
To understand importance of assessing project plan for dependencies, gaps and value delivery
To understand how to estimate effort and resource requirements in integrated manner

B. Planning and managing Schedule

To understand how to create project schedule based on the adopted project management approach
To understand activities, milestones, precedence relationships, lead, and lag
To understand techniques to estimate activity duration, and project scheduling using critical path method
To understand various schedule presentation methods such as Roadmap, Gantt chart, Milestone chart, Network diagram etc.
To understand techniques for schedule compression
To understand scheduling in adaptive projects, release planning
To understand use of EVM for schedule monitoring and controlling

C. Planning and Managing Quality Requirements

To understand concept of “Cost of Quality” and its importance
To understand how to gather stakeholder quality expectations
To understand various quality planning tools and techniques
To understand difference between quality assurance and quality control, QA and QC tools and techniques
To understand quality methods for continuous improvement
To understand and implement regulatory compliance

D. Planning and Managing Procurements

To understand procurement strategies
To understand various contract types and their application in the procurement process
To understand negotiations in procurement
To understand procurement documents, proposals and bids
To understand the procurement process
To understand contract management, contract change management, and contract closure processes

Lesson 7: Execution, Monitoring, Change and Impediments +

A. Evaluating project status

To understand the artifacts required for project status reporting, and the process of tailoring them for specific project needs
To understand the process of version control and security of documents
To understand information distribution good practices
To understand Project Management Information system and artifact management system
To understand performance assessment methods
To understand how to measure, analyze and update project metrics
To understand various performance measurement and reporting techniques
To understand the importance of communicating performance to stakeholders

B. Planning and Controlling changes

To understand the process of integrated change control and its importance
To understand the importance of contract change control process
To understand process of implementing changes, and communicating with the stakeholders

C. Managing Issues and Removing Impediments during project execution

To understand importance of issue management in projects
To understand the difference between risk and issues
To understand various types of issues, the process for prioritizing issues, and defining intervention strategies
To understand the importance of stakeholder engagement for issue resolutions

Lesson 8: Business Environment Dynamics, Continuous improvement and Closure +

A. Supporting Organizational Change

To understand and manage impact of organizational change on the project
To understand organizational culture, risk and change
To understand Kotter’s 8 step change methodology and its application for managing organizational change

B. Continuous Improvement

To understand importance of lessons learned, the techniques for gathering lessons learned to help continuous process improvement, and importance of updating organizational process assets with the lessons learned

C. Managing Project Closure

To understand importance of closing processes, and the criteria for successful closure of the project
To understand the difference between successful and premature / forced closure of the project
To understand the transition process
To understand the importance of obtaining stakeholder approvals for project closure
To understand project closure activities

Next Steps: PMP® Certification Exam Preparation +

Learning Objective

To understand the next steps for preparing and appearing for the PMP® Certification Exam

PMP® Certification Preparatory Course

Course Objective

Course Outline

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A. Planning and Managing Project Scope

B. Planning and Managing Value Delivery and Benefits Measurement

C. Planning and Managing Risks

D. Planning and Managing Compliance in Projects

E. Planning and Managing finance

F. Planning and Managing resources

A. Developing Integrated Project Management Plan

B. Planning and managing Schedule

C. Planning and Managing Quality Requirements

D. Planning and Managing Procurements

A. Evaluating project status

B. Planning and Controlling changes

C. Managing Issues and Removing Impediments during project execution

A. Supporting Organizational Change

B. Continuous Improvement

C. Managing Project Closure

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