PMP (Project Management Professional)

Course Objectives:

• Define several key terms and recognize the relationship between portfolio, program, and project management
• Describe how organizational influences affect the methods used for managing projects
• Identify the integration of various processes and project management activities
• Breakdown the project's scope to include all required project work
• Compute all activities' durations required to complete the project
• Estimate activities' costs and project's budgets
• Outline the project's quality policies and objectives
• Assemble the project team and manage its performance
• Create and properly communicate project information
• Develop a project risk management plan and examine project risks
• Plan the procurement steps to acquire products and services needed from outside the project team
• Analyze stakeholder expectations and their impact on the project

Course outline:

PMP introduction

• The PMBOK guide
• Key definitions
• Portfolios, programs, and projects
• PMBOK guide components

Projects environment

• Project influences
• Organizational systems
• Organizational types
• The role of the project manager

Integration management

• Developing the project charter
• Developing the project management plan
• Directing and managing project work
• Managing project knowledge
• Monitoring and controlling project work
• Performing integrated change control
• Closing the project or phase

Scope management

• Planning scope management
• Collecting requirements
• Defining the scope
• Creating the WBS
• Validating the scope
• Controlling the scope

Schedule management

• Planning schedule management
• Defining activities
• Sequencing activities
• Estimating activity duration
• Developing the schedule
• Controlling the schedule

Cost management

• Planning cost management
• Estimating costs
• Determining the budget
• Controlling costs

Quality management

• Planning quality management
• Managing quality
• Controlling quality

Resource management

• Planning resource management
• Estimating activity resources
• Acquiring resources
• Developing the team
• Managing the team
• Controlling resources

Communications management

• Planning communications management
• Managing communications
• Monitoring communications

Risk management

• Planning risk  management
• Identifying risks
• Performing qualitative risk analysis
• Performing quantitative risk analysis
• Planning risk responses
• Implementing risk responses
• Monitoring risks

Procurement management

• Planning procurement management
• Conducting procurements
• Controlling procurements

Stakeholder management

• Identifying stakeholders
• Planning stakeholder engagement
• Managing stakeholder engagement
• Monitoring  stakeholder engagement