PMIs Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
Training for PMP Certification
This PMP (Project Management Professional) Contact Hours Training course earning the participants 35 Professional Development Units (PDUs) provides an overview to the third edition (2004) of the PMBOK® (Project Management Body of Knowledge) Guide, and additional topics related to project management that will be part of the examination curriculum.
The course lectures will be supplemented with suitable handouts and information that can be accessed from the internet for self study, study tips, list of relevant books etc., as preparation for
the exam. This course is spaced over 35 hours and requires 5 person-days to complete – the curriculum is intensive.
This course shall provide a lot of discussion concerning the Inputs,
Outputs, Tools & Techniques of the project management processes
(discussed in the PMBOK® Guide, it is not designed / intended to cover all that a project manager needs to know about project management.
Full attendance for this course will earn a candidate a certificate for completing the 35 hour contact program – now made mandatory by the PMI® (Project Management Institute) for PMP® aspirants before taking the certification exam.
The attendees are not permitted to absent themselves from any session beyond 5 minutes as per the guidelines of awarding the participation certificate and 35 Professional Development Units (PDUs)
Course Methodology
- Approximately 1-2 hours of lecturing, discussion and relevant exercises on each chapter, followed by a quick test on the topic covered. Reasoning for selection of the best answer will be discussed
- The final 3 hours of this program would include a 110 question paper* (simulating the final exam). The answers for these questions would also be discussed in the class.
- 110 question paper* - Processworks confidential
Disclaimer: All test questions are a sample, and success on these
questions is not indicative of proficiency for passing the Project
Management Professional Exam
Who Should Attend?
- Attendees who intend to write the PMP® (Project Management Professional) exam within the next 8 - 16 weeks, and have passed the eligibility criteria prescribed by PMI®
- Projects Leads/Managers - Individuals aspiring to be successful project managers who have at least 3.5 years
of project management experience - Technical Managers - Handling large projects and needing to understand the project management environment
- Working Professionals - IT and Non IT Professionals looking for growth opportunities in the project management stream, or seeking a professional methodology for managing projects
- Consultants - seeking provide better solutions to project
management challenges - Entrepreneurs - For effective management of projects for
containing Cost, Schedule, Resource and Quality commitments
What the Course is Not
- A substitute for self-study
- An accelerated learning offering
- An indirect method of self-evaluation
before the main exam. - A means of picking up a question bank
Course Outline
Session 1: Introduction to Project Management
- Common characteristics operations and projects
- Differences between projects and operations
- What is a Project? What is Management? What is Project
Management? - What a project manager must achieve and do minimally
- Career progression and competency for project management
- Normal project temperature & pressures
- Stakeholder interactions for the project manager
Session 2: Project Management Knowledge Area
- Appreciating the corporate priority chain, project phases, the project lifecycle, the project management lifecycle
- Understanding project stakeholders and organizational
influences - Styles, strengths & weaknesses of functional, projective and matrix organizations
- Brief discussion and pointers for general management skills communication, organization, budgeting, leading, managing, negotiating, problem solving
Session 3: Project Management Processes
- Significance of the project management process groups of Initiation, Planning, Executing, Controlling, & Closure
- Core management processes of Scope, Cost, and Time
- Facilitating management processes of Quality, HR,
Communications, Risk, and Procurement - Summarizing the process groups with the project management processes
Session 4: Project Integration Management
- Project plan development – its vitality and methodology
- Project plan execution & work authorization tips
- Project status reviews, reports and action planning
- Project control & change management
Session 5: Project Scope Management
- Business background to pre-project activity and associated
difficulties for the project manager if not involved in the proposal and bidding phase - Significance of selecting a right project
- Commencing and initiating a project in the right way
- Importance of the project charter
- Project scope planning - relevance of the scope statement vis-àvis future project decisions
- Scope definition, WBS development, tips, benefits, and uses Scope verification - acceptance of project scope by stakeholders
- Scope change control – sources of change requests
Section 6: Project Time Management
- Managing time in the project vis-à-vis project realities
- Defining project activities and sequencing these to form a
project network diagram - Network diagramming methods
- Activity duration estimating and determination of the project’s critical path
- Project schedule development and time/cost tradeoffs
Project schedule control – system, performance measurement, - PMIS, project re-planning, schedule updates and corrective
actions
Session 7: Project Cost Management
- Significance and expectations of project cost management
- Resource planning/organizational policies for resource
optimization - Estimation - the basis of project costs and cost estimating
techniques - Significance of cost control limits and the cost management
plan - Cost budgeting, the cost baseline, types of project reserves, depreciation methodologies
- Cost control – cost tracking and cost change approval levels vis-à-vis project performance measurement and variances
- Earned Value Management (EVM) – terminology, formulas and
calculations – interpreting project cost and schedule
performance via EVM. Rules for progress reporting
Session 8: Project Risk Management
- The what, where and why of project risks
- Proactive risk management planning
- Identifying project risks – sources, participants in risk identification,risk categories
- Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis – methodology,
prioritization, benefits, probability -beta and triangular distribution, sensitivity analysis, decision trees, payoff tables, simulation, decision making under uncertainty - Risk response planning- techniques, contingency planning,
contractual agreements, contingency planning and impact of project risks on the project plan - Risk monitoring and control - goals, techniques, work-around plans, corrective actions and change request incorporation
Session 9: Project Procurement Management
- The procurement paradigm, strategies and the procurement cycle
- Planning project procurement for project needs that can/should be met from outside the performing organization
- Planning for the management of necessary contracts/documents for subcontractors
- Soliciting and selecting a suitable subcontractor
- Administering and closing contracts with subcontractors
Session 10: Project Quality Management
- What is quality – the PMI® focus
- The quality management approach and the goals of a quality program
- Implementing project quality management via Quality Planning vis-à-vis the cost of quality, Quality Assurance - the relevance of process adherence and compliance audits, and Quality Control – inspections and other quality control tools including the interpretations of control charts and data variances (sigma values interpretation), pareto analysis, etc
Session 11: Project Communication Management
- The function of project communication
- Understanding the communication model, the characteristics of the communication process and
the types of project communications - Tips for planning project communication- evaluating
communication requirements - Leveraging technology for communication, communication
constraints, stakeholder needs as the basis of project
communication, evaluating project communication interfaces - Project information distribution - creating successful
communications, communication terms, skills and dimensions, types of project records - Performance reporting vis-à-vis project status, progress and forecasts - reviewing project performance and performance related issues, the goals of analyzing project variances, the significance of performance reports and documentation of change requests
- Administrative closure - the relevance of performance
measurement documentation, product documentation and
other project records, the creation of sensible project archives, procurement issues and project subcontracting, formal project closure, and the documentation of lessons learned
Session 12: Project Human Resource Management
- The challenge of managing human resources with insights to project roles & responsibilities
- Skills & responsibility for HR Management – moving the team along & working with the HR department
- Organizational planning - understanding the business
environment, and the handling of internal and external project stakeholders - Managing staff acquisitions vis-à-vis staffing pool realities
- Developing project team members and motivating the workforce
- HR practices and organizational theories
- Creating the right project team – leading and developing the project team through the stages of team development
- Leadership styles and types of leadership power
- Handling project conflict – methodology and tips
Final Session
Mock Exam & Test Evaluation
Course Wrap-up, Participant Feedback and Questions and Answers
