This full-featured seminar presents the important elements of the PMBOK® Guide in a hands-on format that lets you practice what you need to pass the PMP® exam. Take the opportunity to memorize key knowledge required for the exam, drill on over 500 questions, and take challenge quizzes at the end of each chapter.
You’ll study, understand, and experience the PMBOK® Guide material. You’ll receive templates for communication, scope, risk, and a variety of other plans compliant with the PMBOK® Guide. The templates will help you pass the test, plus instantly improve your efficiency with current business projects.
This seminar is designed for anyone seeking to pass the PMP® exam or take advantage of the PMI® project management standard in their operation.
1. Introduction
This introductory module structures the seminar, and presents an overview of the test, the PMBOK® Guide, and key definitions needed for the test and for the class. You’ll learn the breakdown of questions on the test, the characteristics of test questions, and how the seminar will help you throughout the examination process.
2. The Exam
Learn the characteristics, types of question, and make-up of the PMP examination. We’ll show you how to address questions, help you develop an exam strategy, and ease the logistics.
3. Framework
This module examines architectural considerations, including PMI’s view of phases and phase gates as well as project life cycles and how they integrate with product life cycles. You’ll see the flow of key elements of the process groups and how the project unfolds. You’ll not only see how the nine knowledge areas map into the five process groups, you’ll see and understand the entire project flow: developing a thorough understanding of the PMBOK® Guide structure. Finally, you’ll learn about those pesky organization process assets and enterprise environmental factors.
4. Project Integration Management
This module is the umbrella module that covers the other knowledge areas. Learn how to develop a project charter that supports the organization, the three definitions of project scope, the difference between execution and monitoring projects , interrogated change control and project closure.
5. Project Scope Management
Project scope management includes elaborating the project charter into project requirements, the work breakdown structure (WBS) and work packages. You’ll learn how to take a high level work unit and decompose it down into a work package. You’ll learn the difference between phases, work package, schedule activities, and sub-projects. At the conclusion, you’ll know how to develop a comprehensive work plan that defines all the work and only the work required to do the project.
6. Project Time Management
Once you’ve defined the work, you can assign resources, determine resource requirements, and determine schedule estimates. You’ll learn the difference between effort and duration estimates, you’ll learn critical path, critical chain and were to place milestones.
7. Project Cost Management
Once you’ve established your resource requirements, you can estimate costs, and establish a project budget. You’ll learn the difference between a cost estimate, budget, and cost baseline. See how mature organizations manage project funding with funding limit reconciliation.
8. Project Quality Management
Project Quality Management handles product and scope verification as well as interim control measures. Learn the difference between quality control and quality assurance, discover the quality models that produce success, including TQM. ISO-9000, Kiasan, and many others. Learn how to chart quality to discover trends and where to focus quality improvement initiatives.
9. Project Human Resource Management
This module covers such project-critical issues as team building, motivation and leadership. Learn long-standing management and leadership models that have proven themselves against the test of time, including Mazov and Hertzberg. Learn management styles, leadership models, conflict management methods an many more.
10. Project Communication Management
Project Communication Management is clearly the most important module in the seminar. This module covers the communication model, addresses the number of communication channels a project manager has to handle, and reviews reports, meetings, and other communication methods throughout the project. According to PMI, communication is 90% of a project manager’s job.
11. Project Risk Management
This module is one of the most logical and best constructed of the knowledge areas. Learn how to identify, qualify and quantify project risks. Learn the methods for ranking and prioritize risks, then discover what to do about it. This module will help you identify, evaluate, communicate risks with stakeholders, and stabilize your project plans to withstand almost any outside attach.
12. Project Procurement Management
In his module, you will learn how to create a procurement statement of work, find potential bidders, identify and qualify bidders, select and manager bidders, and close their contract professionally. You’ll learn basic contract law, procurement documents, including IFB, RFP, and RFB, and the differences among them.
13. Professional and Social Responsibility
This module covers the 6th domain and 9% of the PMP exam test. You’ll learn the four tasks involved in professional and social responsibility. You’ll discover the concepts for international professional ethics, morals, and professionalism.
