60 PDUs Full PMP Renewal Course. Renews PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP

Define a project as a temporary endeavor delivering a unique product, service, or result; it has a start date, end date, and uses progressive elaboration, and may belong to program.

Apply knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to satisfy project requirements, lead the project team, identify risks and manage issues and changes, and close with a delivered output.

Learn how program management coordinates related projects to deliver benefits and control, break large work into subprojects, and have a program manager oversee the interdependent project managers.

Define a portfolio as a collection of projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed to achieve long-term strategic goals.

Explain how operations management focuses on acquiring, developing, and utilizing resources to deliver ongoing goods and services, and distinguish it from temporary projects.

Discover how to justify a project to earn approval by proving its value to the company, showing potential returns, cost savings, brand impact, and product improvements.

Explore how projects enable organizational change by moving from a current state to a desired state, driving product and process improvements to help organizations survive.

Understand how phases group related project activities to produce deliverables, and how each phase outputs a unique, verifiable product or result accepted by the customer or sponsor.

Define the project lifecycle as the sequence of phases from initiation to closure, including design, development, testing, and installation, with plan-driven, change-driven, or hybrid approaches shaped by the project manager.

Understand project governance as the framework for making decisions, guided by structure, people, and information. Note that governance is unique to each organization and informs initiation, termination, and funding decisions.

Explore who counts as stakeholders in a project—people, groups, or organizations affected or perceived to be affected, positively or negatively, from the project manager to the customer and sponsor.

Adopt multiple roles as a project manager: initiator, negotiator, listener, coach, working member, and facilitator, adapting daily to guide teams, coordinate meetings, and drive effective decisions.

Define milestones as significant events marking deliverables, and distinguish them from task duration, the time to complete activities; zero-duration tasks count as milestones, such as permit approval or exam pass.

Explore organizational structures—functional, matrix, and project oriented—and how they shape project manager authority, resource control, and hybrid approaches in businesses.

Identify the project sponsor as the boss on traditional projects, funding and deciding on deliverables, changes, and budget; note that agile product owners are not bosses.

Learn the areas you will manage in a project, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and resources, and how communication, engagement, risk, and procurement integrate to deliver the project.

Learn how a project management office standardizes processes and enables the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques across projects in large organizations, with supportive, control, and directive PMO types.

Product management encompasses planning, development, and life cycle management of a product from conception to retirement. Project management operates within the life cycle, delivering projects on scope, schedule, and budget.

Explore the definitions of risk, issues, assumptions, and constraints, including how risks can become issues and how to use risk registers and issue logs in project management.

Identify and manage the six project constraints—scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and resources—each shaping outcomes and customer satisfaction, so plan early to avoid overruns.

Explore predictive (traditional, waterfall) and adaptive (agile) project management approaches, detailing scope definition, upfront planning, change control, and iterative versus incremental development, with hybrid options.

Discover how emotional intelligence enables project leaders to recognize and manage their own and others' emotions, improve communication, and resolve conflicts to strengthen team performance.

Compare leadership and management to reveal when to inspire and motivate versus when to plan, coordinate, and enforce processes. Learn how to blend vision, empowerment, and efficiency for project success.

Explore traditional project management, also called waterfall or predictive, where a well-defined scope and upfront planning drive execution and change control, guided by established processes and documents, unlike agile methods.

Explore predictive project management through the 49 processes across five process groups—initiate, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing, including the project charter and stakeholder identification.

Discover the 49 predictive project management processes across five process groups, focusing on understanding over memorization, and learn about inputs, tools, techniques and outputs.

Explains the five process groups—initiate, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing—and how they flow together to define, execute, monitor, adjust, and close a project.

Explore how inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs (ITTOs) define the 49 project management processes, with common ITTOs recurring across enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets, and the project charter.

Identify enterprise environmental factors as internal and external influences that affect a project across the 49 processes, yet are not part of it, guiding planning and approvals.

Organizational process assets, or opas, include templates, software, and knowledge bases that guide projects; they reside in a central repository and serve as inputs to many processes.

Explore project documents and the project management plan across the 49 processes, including the 33 documents, inputs and outputs, and how duration estimates inform cost and change requests.

Explore the project management plan, detailing how to execute, monitor, control, and close projects through 18 components, 14 plans, and four baselines across the 49 processes.

Leverage expert judgement as a common tool across the 49 processes to estimate and plan by consulting subject matter experts for planning, executing, controlling, and closing.

Explore data gathering, analysis, representation, and decision making through brainstorming, interviews, and surveys, then present charts to assess variances and trends and guide actions.

Develop strong interpersonal and team skills to manage people across projects, using active listening, conflict resolution, facilitation, and effective meeting management for PMP renewal success.

Plan and run effective project meetings with stakeholders, choosing virtual or face-to-face formats, using clear agendas and timeboxed topics, and distributing detailed meeting minutes for aligned outcomes.

Explore the project management information system (pmis) as the enterprise toolset used to plan, schedule, and deliver projects, including Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office apps, and work authorization and configuration management.

Explore how change requests propose changes to documents, deliverables, or baselines within the project management plan, and how approved changes involve corrective or preventive actions and defect repair.

Discover how you transform work performance data into work performance information by comparing actual progress to the plan, then compile this information into a work performance report for stakeholders.

explains how updates function as common outputs across project management processes, detailing updates to organizational process assets, enterprise environmental factors, project documents, and the project management plan.

Develop the project charter to formally authorize a project, assign the project manager, define high-level scope and budget, and establish authority and assumptions using business documents and agreements.

Identify stakeholders early and continuously by analyzing their interests, involvement, and influence, and build a stakeholder register using tools like stakeholder analysis and power interest grids.

Develop a project management plan by defining and coordinating 14 subsidiary plans and four baselines, integrating all planning processes for clear execution and change control.

Plan scope management defines how to define, validate scope; distinguish product scope from project scope; prevent scope creep and gold plating, and guide authorised changes through the scope management plan.

Collect requirements to determine, document, and manage stakeholders' needs before planning, using brainstorming, prototyping, mind mapping, and a traceability matrix to ensure precise scope and acceptance criteria.

Define scope emphasizes creating a detailed product scope statement through product analysis to define deliverables and what will not be done, preventing scope creep and guiding acceptance criteria.

Create and structure a work breakdown structure by decomposing project deliverables from the scope statement into work packages, control accounts, and a detailed WBS dictionary.

Develop the schedule management plan by establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule.

Decompose work packages into detailed activities to build an actionable activity list and milestone schedule, clarifying rolling wave planning.

Learn how to sequence activities by building a network diagram, identify predecessors and successors, apply hard and soft logic, dependencies, leads, and lags, using Microsoft Project.

Estimate activity durations by assigning work periods to each activity, using analogous, bottom-up, and parametric methods, applying three-point estimates (pert), reserve analysis, and basis of the estimate with range.

Master the pert three-point estimate, using optimistic, realistic, and pessimistic values to calculate activity duration and cost, with variants like standard deviation and triangular distribution.

Develop the project schedule by turning activities, durations, and resources into a schedule model with baselines, calendars, and scenarios using methods like CPM, resource leveling, and what-if analyses.

Develop a cost management plan that guides how project costs are estimated, budgeted, monitored, and controlled, using value engineering and fixed, variable, direct, indirect, and sunk costs.

Develop a cost estimate by accounting for labor, materials, equipment, services, facilities, inflation, and financing, then apply techniques like analogous, bottom-up, top-down, parametric, and reserve analysis to form the budget.

Aggregate activity costs to determine the budget, rolling up to work packages and deliverables, establishing the cost baseline with contingency and management reserves and funding needs.

Define and gather quality requirements, develop the quality management plan, and measure performance with quality metrics to prevent defects and satisfy customers.

Plan resource management explains how to estimate, acquire, manage, and use team and physical resources, producing the resource management plan and team charter, supported by RACI and RAM charts.

Estimate activity resources by determining what and how many resources are needed, including people, materials, and equipment, using bottom-up, analogous, parametric methods and the basis of the estimate.

Analyze stakeholder communication needs to develop a tailored communication management plan. Define who receives what, when, how, and through which channels using expert judgment and communication requirements analysis.

Define risk as a probability that can affect project objectives and distinguish positive from negative risks. Learn to plan, identify, analyze, respond, and monitor risks using a risk management plan.

Identify risks before project execution, build a risk register and risk report, and update them using prompt lists, swot analysis, root cause analysis, and documentation analysis.

Identify and prioritize risks by assessing probability and impact, analyze qualitative risk measures, update the risk register, and visualize priorities with a probability and impact matrix and bubble chart.

Perform quantitative risk analysis assigns numerical values to risks ranked in qualitative analysis, estimating their budget impact using probability distributions and EMV, and updating the risk register to guide responses.

Identify risks, rank them, and determine responses using threat and opportunity strategies such as accept, escalate, transfer, avoid, mitigate, share, exploit, and enhance, updating the risk register accordingly.

Plan procurement management by creating written agreements with vendors, outlining deliverables, terms, and procurement strategy; evaluate contract types, and prepare bid documents and vendor selection criteria.

Plan stakeholder engagement to keep all stakeholders active and informed, using a stakeholder engagement plan aligned with the communication management plan and a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix.

Revisit the 24 planning processes to complete the 18-component project management plan with baselines, then start execution under modern control.

Execute project work by applying the ten executing processes, from direct and manage project work to manage stakeholders, while integrating with modern controlling to keep the project on plan.

Direct and manage project work coordinates execution as an integration process, applying the plan, handling approved changes, delivering deliverables, and tracking work performance data and issues.

Manage project knowledge by capturing lessons learned throughout projects in a lesson learned register, and share explicit and tacit knowledge via knowledge and information management.

Manage quality by turning the quality management plan into executable actions, ensuring processes meet objectives and using tools like Ishikawa diagram, Pareto chart, and quality reports.

Acquire resources continuously secures physical and team resources, including internal staff and external contractors, using multi-criteria analysis to assign team and physical resources and create a resource calendar.

Develop your team by guiding through forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning, and use co-location and virtual team strategies to foster motivation, coaching, and high performance.

Develops team performance through proactive conflict management, applying problem solving, communication, and emotional intelligence to resolve issues, guide decision making, and implement change requests.

Master project communications by executing the plan to manage gathering, distributing, storing, and monitoring information, ensuring timely updates to stakeholders as outlined in the communication management plan.

Implement risk responses during project execution by monitoring identified risks and applying planned responses. Update the risk register as risks become issues and aim to minimize threats while maximizing opportunities.

Select a qualified seller, evaluate proposals and bids, and award the contract to implement the agreement; this procurement execution follows planning and uses bid documents, cost estimates, and bidder conferences.

Execute the stakeholder engagement plan to keep stakeholders engaged through demos, meetings, calls, and one-on-one conversations, aligned with the communication management plan.

Review executing processes: integration, knowledge management, lesson learned register, quality, resource acquisition, team development, communication, risk response, procurement, stakeholder engagement. Prepare to monitor and control to keep project on plan.

Learn how monitoring and controlling keeps project work on plan by continuously evaluating scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risks, and vendor engagement while work is executed.

Track progress to keep the integration process on plan across scope, schedule, and cost; produce work performance information and reports, and initiate change requests when needed.

Assess change requests from stakeholders and approve or reject them through a change control board. Update the project management plan and documents, maintain a change log, and execute approved changes.

Validate scope formalizes the acceptance of the completed, verified deliverable by the sponsor or customer after control quality, using inspection and product walkthroughs, and may trigger rework or project closure.

Control scope, control schedule, and control costs by comparing plan work to actual work, using variance analysis and change requests to keep the project on budget.

Control quality during execution by inspecting deliverables to verify they meet quality requirements, producing a verified deliverable that is complete, correct, and aligned with stakeholder expectations.

Control resources focuses on managing physical resources—materials, equipment, facilities, and tools—to maximize efficiency on the project. Use work performance data to guide change requests and prevent waste.

Monitor communications evaluates whether the project’s communications meet the plan and stakeholder needs. It compares planned communications with what occurred, using work performance data to drive necessary changes.

Monitor risk continuously to identify and track new and changing risks, update risk responses in the risk register, and manage change requests to keep the project on track.

Master controlled procurements by monitoring vendor performance, inspecting work, handling claims administration, negotiating settlements, and closing procurements to ensure the work stays on contract.

Compare planned stakeholder engagement with actual engagement to monitor and adjust engagement strategies, using performance data to request changes if methods are inadequate.

Close project or phase formalizes completion by transferring accepted deliverables to operations, releasing the team, closing contracts, and archiving project records while documenting lessons learned.

Define agile as an umbrella term for adaptive project management, originally created for software development, now used in all kinds of projects through methods like scrum and kanban.

Learn the difference between iterative and incremental development in agile, contrasting building the whole product versus delivering small increments and refining with feedback.

Discover how agile boosts project success through greater customer involvement, stakeholder engagement, and feedback, delivering value up front via incremental releases and a product backlog that welcomes changes.

Explore the agile declaration of interdependence, focusing on continuous flow of value, iterative releases, customer engagement, shared ownership, and group accountability for results via servant leadership.

Adopt an agile mindset by welcoming changes, delivering in increments, gathering frequent feedback, learning through discovery, and driving value with continuous delivery and regular retrospectives.

Compare agile and traditional project approaches, highlighting incremental delivery, continuous planning, and faster customer value with agile, while noting regulatory contexts where traditional methods may suit.

This lecture explains inverting the triangle, contrasting traditional projects with fixed scope to agile projects that vary scope while keeping time and cost fixed.

Explore the Agile Manifesto's four values: individuals and interactions over processes and tools; working software over documentation; customer collaboration over contract; and responding to change over following a plan.

Explore the 12 agile guiding principles from the Agile Manifesto and learn how to satisfy the customer by delivering valuable software early and continuously, while welcoming changes.

Explore agile methods, focusing on scrum as the most popular approach, and learn how kanban, extreme programming, lean software development, and scale agile drive value.

Explains how the scrum process unfolds, including the product backlog, sprint backlog, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, driven by the product owner to deliver incremental value in agile delivery.

Explore scrum roles: product owner, scrum master, and development team. Learn how the product owner prioritizes the backlog for releases, the scrum master facilitates, and the development team self-manages.

Explore scrum ceremonies that guide sprints, including sprint planning to form the sprint backlog, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews with stakeholders, and retrospectives, all within time-boxed 1–4 week cycles.

Explore scrum artifacts including the product backlog, sprint backlog, and product increment, and learn how grooming, value-based prioritization, and the definition of done shape work.

Define the definition of done as a shared, upfront standard in scrum projects, aligning product owner, customers, and teams to deliver complete features with tests, docs, or outputs.

Explore extreme programming, an agile software development method similar to scrum, emphasizing simplicity, early feedback, fail fast, and roles like coach, customer, programmers, testers, and acceptance test.

Explore XP practices including release and iteration planning, small releases, continuous integration, test-driven development, and peer programming to ensure collaborative, visible, and sustainable software delivery.

Compare scrum and xp to reveal their similarities and term mappings. Sprints and releases, planning games, customer, backlog, retrospectives, daily stand up, and cross-functional, self-organizing teams appear across both.

learn lean software development, derived from the Toyota production system, to eliminate waste, empower the team, deliver quickly, and optimize the whole system with quality built in and amplify learning.

Learn kanban development using a signboard to visualize work flow—items, in-progress, testing, and done—while applying low tech, high touch practices and work-in-progress limits.

Explore popular agile methods beyond scrum, including feature-driven development, Crystal variants, and SAFe, and learn how they align with the agile manifesto to deliver quickly with stakeholder collaboration.

Discover servant leadership in agile projects, contrast it with traditional management, and learn to shield the team, manage impediments, and align around the product backlog and sprint backlog.

Explore the 12 principles of servant leadership, including learning team needs, aligning project requirements, balancing welfare of team and project, fostering accountability, and thinking backwards to guide ethical, supportive leadership.

Explore servant leadership tools that boost people management through soft skills, transparent visualization, and inclusive collaboration, creating a safe environment for experimentation while aligning the team with the project vision.

Master value-based prioritization for agile backlogs by using simple schemes, MoSCoW, dot voting, 100-point voting, monopoly money, and Keno analysis to rank features by value, risk, and dependencies.

Deliver value incrementally by prioritizing the product backlog, building in 2-4 week iterations, and validating in test environments before production to reduce costly rework.

A minimum viable product offers a usable, partial version of a product for early customer feedback. This accelerates agile learning and guides rapid iteration.

Engage stakeholders with low-tech, high-touch tools, sticky notes, whiteboards, and Kanban boards, and promote agile success through a shared vision, agile charter, and definition of done.

Discover how face-to-face communication delivers the richest stakeholder interactions, enabling two-way knowledge sharing through whiteboards and information radiators, while leveraging low-tech, high-touch tools and virtual alternatives.

Explore the levels of conflict from level one to five, and learn to coach teams through root-cause analysis, simple voting methods, and fist-of-five decisions to resolve issues and prevent harm.

Explore agile roles, including the delivery team, product owner, and agile project manager, and learn their collaboration via backlogs, standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and kanban boards.

Build a high performance agile team that is self-organizing under servant leadership, uses generalizing specialists to reduce bottlenecks, and fosters a shared vision with safe, constructive disagreement.

Explore the Shuhari model of skill mastery and the Dreyfus model of adult skill acquisition, and learn Tuckman's five stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning.

Explore how agile team spaces foster face-to-face collaboration, with low-tech, high-touch boards and walls that support osmotic communication and tacit knowledge.

Explore adaptive agile planning that focuses on incremental delivery, ongoing replanning, and value-driven decisions. Learn to update plans against changing backlog, manage uncertainty, involve customers and teams, and tailor processes.

Learn value based analysis and decomposition to prioritize business value, decompose requirements, and design the product box to reveal key value propositions for agile backlog planning.

Master timeboxing in agile to cap work within fixed time boxes and prevent overruns, noting sprint lengths and Parkinson's law that pushes work to fill the time.

Decompose high level requirements into user stories to create a shared understanding, define 1–3 day work items, and groom the story backlog for agile projects.

Learn to assign story points with relative sizing and the Fibonacci sequence to estimate sprint capacity, using planning poker or wideband delphi to build agile schedules.

Identify the three iteration types—iteration zero, the development iteration, and the hardening sprint—and explain architectural and risk-based spikes used to test concepts and mitigate risks before sprints.

Explore burn up and burn down charts plus velocity charts to track and forecast project performance in agile teams, including work completed, work remaining, and team velocity.

Explore continuous improvement with the Deming pdca cycle and agile iterations, using value stream mapping to identify waste and speed up processes for faster certificates.

Learn how to conduct a sprint retrospective with five phases, data gathering, insights, decision making, and closure, using fishbone analysis and smart goals for continuous improvement.

Learn how a business analyst identifies problems, gathers requirements, analyzes processes across admissions and student records, proposes solutions, and ensures projects meet business objectives.

Explore the role of the business analyst as applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to identify problems, analyze markets, elicit and manage requirements, and propose viable solutions.

Business analysts identify problems and opportunities and specify requirements to reach a desired future state; project managers turn those requirements into reality through planning and execution, with close collaboration.

Define requirements as conditions or capabilities necessary to meet a business need, and explore business, stakeholder, solution, and transition requirements along with elicitation to drive product improvement.

Explore the product life cycle from conception to withdrawal and how business analysts focus on the product while project managers drive the projects, from requirements to market results.

Identify the business value as the net quantifiable benefit of an initiative, tangible like revenue or intangible like customer satisfaction, and enable management to approve it through research.

Understand the six business analyst process groups and the 35 processes the BA follows, including defining and aligning, initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and releasing.

Explore the six knowledge areas of business analysis—needs assessment, stakeholder engagement, elicitation, analysis, traceability and monitoring, and solution evaluation. See how the Samsung phone scenario demonstrates requirements gathering and evaluation.

Explore the seven needs assessment processes in business analysis, translating current state into a compelling future state with roadmaps, a business case, and charter development for management approval.

Identify problems or opportunities to guide business analysis, using benchmarking, market and competitive analyses, interviews, and prototyping to define business needs and drive value.

Assess the current state to understand how inventory is managed by using elicitation techniques, interviews, observation, and documentation to identify processes and gaps.

Identify the gap from current state to future state by analyzing capabilities with a capability table, affinity diagram, benchmarking, and elicitation techniques, to define necessary changes and business goals.

Identify the current and future states of an inventory system and explore viable options. Evaluate options with benchmarking, cost-benefit analysis, and elicitation techniques to deliver a recommended solution.

Facilitate the development of a product roadmap by mapping features and delivery order, using workshops, story mapping, and user stories to prioritize value across iterations.

Assemble a compelling business case by analyzing the problem, current versus future systems, and value to justify investment and approve portfolio, program, or project initiatives.

Support the development and approval of charters to authorize projects, programs, or portfolios. Bridge the business case to planning and execution, ensuring charter approval starts the work.

Identify stakeholders and conduct analysis to determine engagement and communication, plan stakeholder engagement, prepare for transition of future state, manage stakeholder engagement, and assess business analysts' performance.

Identify stakeholders by mapping people or groups who influence or are affected by business analysis activities, then create a stakeholder register and engage the right people for project success.

Develop a stakeholder analysis approach to assess attitudes, interests, and influence, update the stakeholder register, and tailor communication using tools like persona, job analysis, and the RACI model.

Identify stakeholders, analyze their role, power, and interests, and document a tailored engagement and communication approach with methods and frequency for ongoing BA processes.

Develop a comprehensive business analysis plan that defines 35 processes, elicits, traces, verifies and validates requirements, assigns roles, and estimates BA activities within a project management context.

Assess organizational readiness and plan the transition from the current state to the future state, using elicitation, group decision making, swot analysis, and readiness assessments to sustain benefits after implementation.

Understand how to manage stakeholder engagement and monitor business analysis performance by eliciting, validating, and aligning requirements with the plan, and identifying root causes and opportunities.

Master elicitation by planning, preparing, executing, and verifying information gathering to define current and future state needs, requirements, and product details from diverse sources.

Determine the elicitation approach by planning activities, selecting methods (interviews, prototypes, focus groups, workshops), sequencing tasks and channels (text, phone, in-person, zoom) to engage stakeholders efficiently.

Prepare for elicitation with a clear agenda, then conduct elicitation through workshops, interviews, and surveys, and finally confirm results with stakeholders to define accurate requirements.

Explore the analysis knowledge area and its nine processes, from planning the analysis approach and modeling requirements to defining acceptance criteria and assessing product design options.

Plan the analysis approach by outlining what will be analyzed, selecting suitable models, and defining verification, validation, and prioritization criteria for the other eight processes.

Create and analyze models to pass your requirements through to see which requirements are good, using mockups, prototypes, user interface flows, use case diagrams, system interface tables, and feature models.

The define and elaborate requirements process selects and refines the elicited requirements into detailed, audience-specific product information to initiate a project or portfolio and guide improvements.

Define acceptance criteria to provide evidence that a deliverable is done, detailing formatting, pdf export options, sorting, and a definition of done agreed with stakeholders.

Understand how to verify requirements for quality and standards, then validate them by confirming stakeholder needs and acceptance criteria through walkthroughs and traceability.

Prioritize requirements and other product information by assessing value to stakeholders, aligning the product backlog, and planning iterations, sprints, and releases for maximum value.

Identify and analyze product risks by examining assumptions, uncertainties, and their impact on requirements, solution definition, and backlog using a risk register, swot analysis, and elicitation techniques.

Assess product design options through brainstorming, competitive analysis, and focus groups to evaluate design choices for new features against business goals, costs, feasibility, and risk.

Trace requirements end-to-end by establishing a traceability and monitoring approach, mapping dependencies, approving changes, and ensuring development aligns with production-ready specifications.

Plan and define a traceability and monitoring approach to manage requirement changes across portfolio, project, program, or product, using a traceability matrix and lessons learned.

Establish relationships and dependencies among requirements to determine the correct order and enforce mandatory dependencies, ensuring value, traceability, and alignment with customer expectations.

Engage stakeholders to select and approve requirements, prioritize the backlog, and agree on what to implement to meet business objectives and guide project iterations.

Manage changes to requirements and other product information by assessing their value and impact during development, and update the product information as changes are approved in agile or predictive contexts.

Evaluate solution performance to confirm it meets objectives and solves the business problem. Plan the evaluation, assess results, address defects, and obtain stakeholder acceptance for releases.

Evaluate solution performance by using cost-benefit analysis, stakeholder interviews, and elicitation techniques to verify the inventory system delivers business value.

Determine the solution evaluation approach by defining what to measure, how to measure, when, and who measures. Align indicators and metrics to monitor and improve organizational performance.

Evaluate acceptance results by comparing the solution to the acceptance criteria. Decide to release or modify components using prioritization, traceability matrix, root cause analysis, and variance analysis.

Facilitate a release decision through workshops with stakeholders to gain solution acceptance, use voting to decide, and transfer information including risks, known issues, and workarounds to operations for production deployment.

Gain a high-level understanding of the 35 business analysis processes a BA performs, plus an introduction to business analysis and CAPM exam prep.

Explore the PMBoK guide seventh edition as an umbrella of standards for project management, note its two-book structure, and see how global contributors shape content compared to the sixth edition.

Explore basic project management terms, including the temporary nature of a project to create a unique product, service, or result, and distinguish operations, products, programs, portfolios, and their managers.

Apply knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet requirements and deliver the required deliverable, while leading the team with people skills to drive value.

Create value by delivering a new product, service, or result within a larger system; projects enable change and drive organizational value through process improvements and training.

Explore how value is delivered through projects, programs, portfolios, products, and operations, with outputs meeting customer needs within budget, scope, and time to benefit the business.

Improve information flow across senior management, portfolio managers, program managers, and project managers to prevent data loss and misalignment, ensuring value is delivered to operations and customers.

Explore how the organizational governance system aligns with the value delivery system to guide project management, enable smooth workflows, and ensure value through oversight and integration.

Coordinate oversight and facilitate the project team, applying expertise to deliverables while gathering customer requirements, securing resources, and maintaining governance.

Identify internal factors—process assets, templates, data assets, infrastructure, and resources—that shape how a project is planned, executed, monitored, and closed, alongside external influences like regulations, marketplace conditions, and industry standards.

Define product management as the organizational function guiding new product development, planning, forecasting, pricing, launch, and marketing across the product life cycle, integrating programs and projects.

Explore the high-level PMBoK seventh edition, focusing on its principles and domains, and see how the meat and potatoes appear in the sixth edition and Agile Practice Guide.

Explore the 12 project management principles from the PMBoK seventh edition. Learn how these foundational guidelines guide behavior, stakeholder engagement, and decision making in project management.

Discover the PMI code of ethics and professional conduct and how the principles relate to morals. Emphasize four core values: responsible, respect, fairness, and honesty, for trustworthy project leadership.

Explore the 12 PMBOK guide seventh edition principles for effective project management, from value delivery and stakeholder engagement to tailoring approaches, risk responses, and enabling change.

Learn how to practice stewardship in project management by acting with integrity, care, and trustworthiness while complying with laws and considering financial, social, and environmental impacts across every project.

Build a collaborative project team environment where diverse skills deliver shared deliverables, promote transparency in roles and responsibilities, uphold team agreements, and prevent silos.

Proactively engage stakeholders throughout the project, including customers, sponsors, and the team, to gather requirements and feedback and guide value delivery. Build strong interpersonal skills to sustain engagement.

Focus on value to deliver outcomes that matter to customers and stakeholders. Use both quantitative and qualitative measures, align with the business case, and adapt through agile or waterfall methods.

Apply systems thinking to manage a project as a network of interdependent components, aligning risk, quality, scope, schedule, and cost within a holistic system that adapts to changes.

Demonstrate adaptive leadership to motivate diverse teams, align goals, resolve conflicts, and drive successful projects, while distinguishing leadership from authority and tailoring styles to stakeholders.

Tailor project delivery to context by selecting from traditional, agile, and hybrid approaches, iterating as needed to maximize value and adapt to unique project needs.

Learn to build quality into processes and deliverables by defining acceptance criteria, aligning with stakeholder expectations, and using metrics to meet project objectives.

Navigate complexity in project management by anticipating human behavior, system interactions, uncertainty, and ambiguity, and adapt plans to deliver project outcomes.

Identify, assess, and respond to project risks, recognizing opportunities and threats. Monitor progress and apply risk appetite, thresholds, and risk management principles to maximize benefits and minimize impacts.

Build adaptability and resiliency into projects by embracing change in personnel, processes, and external environments, using short feedback loops, continuous learning, and diverse teams to stay on track toward value.

Enable change to achieve the envisioned future state by preparing impacted stakeholders, managing resistance with a structured, incremental approach, and using motivational strategies throughout the project lifecycle.

Learn about the eight PMBoK seventh edition performance domains, including stakeholder team development and project work delivery, and how interdependent activities drive delivery of the project deliverable within context.

Learn to manage the stakeholder performance domain by identifying and analyzing stakeholders, prioritizing engagement by power and interest, and monitoring relationships to ensure agreements and project objectives are met.

Explore the team performance domain and learn how to build a high performance team through leadership, servant leadership, culture, and shared ownership to deliver project outputs.

Identify the right development approach (predictive, agile, or hybrid), choose the appropriate life cycles and cadence for iterations or increments, and deliver value to stakeholders.

Learn how the planning performance domain enables proactive, evolving planning to deliver organized project outcomes through progressive elaboration, stakeholder engagement, and change controls.

Execute the work performance domain by applying efficient project processes, managing physical resources and procurement, and fostering learning to deliver intended outcomes and stakeholder value.

Drive project delivery by meeting scope and quality, delivering value to stakeholders, and ensuring benefits are realized on time. Assess acceptance, satisfaction, and the cost of quality throughout delivery.

Evaluate project performance by measuring time, cost, and scope, using KPIs and smart metrics, dashboards, and information radiators to deliver actionable, timely data and keep the project on plan.

Explore the uncertainty performance domain and learn to proactively manage risk by assessing threats, opportunities, and interdependent variables, and by planning for reserves to keep projects on track.

Explore the Oscar model for coaching: outcome, situation, choices, actions, and reviews, guiding a transition from current to future state with actionable plans and regular motivation checks.

Explore PMBOK seventh edition change models—ADKAR, eight steps for leading change, Virginia Satir, and Bridges—alongside managing change in organizations to support integrated change control and stakeholder adaptation.

Explore the Drexler Sibbet seven-step team performance model, covering orientation, trust building, goal clarification, goal collaboration and plan, implementation, and renewal to sustain high-performance project teams.

Join this hands-on PMP renewal course to build a project plan with me in project 2019 professional edition; standard edition and office 365 features work too, with downloadable practice files.

Define a project as a temporary endeavor that produces a unique product, service, or result with a start and end date, suitable for scheduling in Microsoft Project.

Explore the two main Microsoft Project versions—cloud-based and on-premises—and focus on Project Professional 2019, covering resource management, timesheets and payroll, project server, and key differences from Project Standard.

Explore how Microsoft Project manages linked tasks, resources, and budgets with auto scheduling, baselines, Gantt charts, and insightful reports to track project timelines.

Master the Microsoft Project interface: open files with the MPP extension, navigate the home and ribbon, and use the Gantt chart, task list, and timeline.

Set up a blank project in Microsoft Project by defining the start date, selecting the calendar, and choosing between start or finish date scheduling before entering tasks.

Learn to change working time in Microsoft Project by editing the standard calendar, adding holidays and exceptions to optimize schedules and reflect non-working days and costs.

Enter tasks and durations in a Microsoft Project plan for a network upgrade, using days, weeks, or months, then edit or delete tasks as you schedule.

Learn how to link tasks and manage manual versus auto scheduling in Microsoft Project, and explore finish-to-start relationships, dependencies, and hybrid manual/auto scheduling.

Create summary tasks to group subtasks into higher level phases, indent to form a collapsible outline, and link dependencies with predecessors for clear project planning.

Manage task relationships in Microsoft Project using finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish links to compress schedules, optimize plans, and run tasks in parallel.

Add a lag between tasks to delay the next task after the previous finishes, using a finish-to-start relationship, and set the lag in the predecessor tab in Microsoft Project.

Discover how to add a lead between tasks to overlap work, using negative lag in a Gantt chart to start the successor before the predecessor finishes, shortening the project schedule.

Discover how constraints in Microsoft Project govern task dates, including start no earlier than, finish no earlier than, finish no later than, and must start on.

Learn to set a deadline on a task in Microsoft Project and see how deadlines act as alerts, not constraints, guiding schedule flexibility without affecting the scheduling engine.

Add notes to a task in Microsoft Project to communicate details, such as paint type and finish. Double-click the task, open notes, and format or insert files as needed.

Add outline numbers to your project plan to create a work breakdown structure with numbered tasks. This enables easier navigation and clear communication by referencing tasks like 3.5 or 4.2.

Create a custom calendar and assign it to tasks to reflect nonstandard working times. Apply it to cover 24-hour and night shift schedules and ensure accurate duration and costs.

Learn how to insert hyperlinks to tasks, linking to documents or websites, and ensure consistent paths on shared drives so all users access the right resources in PMP renewal course.

Define milestones as zero-duration tasks that sign off project phases. Learn to insert and link milestones in a Gantt chart with auto scheduling to track completion.

Explore how the project summary task (task zero) shows the project duration with start and end dates derived from all tasks, and how to enable it in the format tab.

Master essential task formatting in Microsoft Project, including font, color, and styling, and learn copy-paste and paste as hyperlink to connect tasks and show color coding.

learn how to create and manage recurring tasks in a project plan, including weekly meetings, durations, start and end dates, and optional task dependencies.

Learn how to move the entire project plan start date in microsoft project, adjusting deadlines and schedules with the move project tool, and understand auto vs manual schedule implications.

Learn how to mark an inactive task in a project plan, visualizing it without affecting schedule or budget, and later reactivate it for troubleshooting.

Update plan properties and project information to tag the file with title, subject, author, project manager, company, category, and keywords, helping others locate and identify the project quickly.

Use the zoom features in Microsoft Project to quickly navigate the Gantt chart, view the entire project, and jump to selected tasks with configurable time-scale options.

learn to customize and colorize a gantt chart by applying color schemes, single-bar emphasis, and patterns to highlight critical tasks, while keeping scheduling unchanged.

Learn to display the critical path and slack in project schedules using Microsoft Project, showing how to create slack, adjust relationships, and identify tasks on the critical path.

Add custom graphics and text boxes to a Gantt chart using the draw tools, including ovals, arrows, and callout text to highlight tasks.

Learn to copy a picture of your project plan by rendering the Gantt chart as an image for email sharing without Microsoft Project.

Explore how to manage resources in Microsoft Project, including people, equipment, supplies, and expenses, assign them to tasks, create the task list, and generate an accurate project budget.

Learn how to add work resources in Microsoft Project, set resource types, allocations, costs, and prorated budgeting to improve task planning and project cost accuracy.

Add equipment resources to a Microsoft Project plan as work resources with daily costs and upfront payments, using examples like a network tool set and bulldozer.

Add material resources to your project plan to track consumables like cables and nails, assign per-unit costs (e.g., five feet of cable at $5) and prorate expenses for precise budgeting.

Add a course resource to your project plan to represent expenses like travel costs. Assign the cost resource to tasks so travel costs vary and improve budget accuracy.

Learn to add a custom note to a resource using the notes field, including notes for costs and material resources, with a notes icon and hover for quick context.

Set monthly resource availability in Microsoft Project by defining windows and percentages, such as 100% in August and September and 50% in October, to guide task assignments.

Change resource working times to reflect days off and vacations, adjust non-working and half-day exceptions, and ensure accurate budget and hours calculations in project plans.

Modify resource costs over time by setting effective dates for rate changes, applying new rates from a specific date to keep project budgets accurate.

Assign resources to tasks in a project plan, including cost, material, and equipment resources, using the detail view to calculate budget and total hours.

Discover how effort driven scheduling keeps work constant while adding resources and reduces duration. See the formula duration times units equals work and when to enable or disable effort driven.

Explore task types in project planning by adjusting fixed units, fixed duration, and fixed work, and see how duration, units, and work drive budgeting and resource allocation.

Create and share a resource pool across plans, establish a centralized resource pool, and detect overallocation conflicts while pulling resources from a central file.

Explore resource and task cost reports to see how hours and costs accumulate across tasks, including resource overview, task cost overview, and resource cost overview.

Explore resource usage views in Microsoft Project to see how resources are assigned to tasks, track hours and costs, and print reports for others.

Learn to split a task in project planning, turning two days of work into a sequence with nonworking days in between using the Gantt chart, split button, and drag actions.

Explore how to use the network diagram view in Microsoft Project to visualize task links, durations, start and finish dates, and resources for effective project planning and critical path analysis.

Access the project calendar to view the entire project as a day-by-day schedule, navigate months, and print or export the calendar to pdf for sharing.

Identify overallocated resources and compare manual fixes with automatic resource leveling in Microsoft Project, including behavior of start-to-start relationships, leveling options, and cautions to save a copy.

Navigate to view, then task usage to display each task's start and end dates with the work hours assigned to resources, including daily hours, totals, and costs.

Use the team planner view to see work resources and who is doing what across dates with a graphical overview, then switch back to the gantt chart.

Learn how to set a baseline by capturing the approved project plan as a snapshot, saving start and end dates, and tracking variances against the original schedule.

Track project progress by marking tasks as complete, partial, or not complete in the software. Update the project and use status bars to set 100% completion against the baseline.

Learn to input exact percentages of work completed, from 10% to 100%, using double-click, details pane, and a custom percent complete column to track project progress.

Learn to use the tracking table to record actual start and finish dates, update task progress, and surface variances from the baseline in the project plan.

Use the tracking Gantt to compare the original baseline with actual progress, uncovering variances and schedule shifts as the project unfolds.

Learn how to clear and update baselines in project, including saving multiple baselines (baseline one to baseline ten), comparing variances, and using customized tables to track changes over time.

Explain interim plan as a snapshot of the current start and end dates, copied to start one and finish one, for tracking changes in long projects.

Learn to reschedule uncompleted project work by adjusting start dates for the entire project or selected tasks, handling dependencies and funding delays.

Master Microsoft Project’s multi-window view to display the same file in parallel windows, showing the Gantt chart, resource sheet, and tables side by side.

Master the group by feature in Microsoft Project to categorize tasks by completion status, duration, milestones, or resources, and monitor the Gantt chart.

Explore the highlight feature that quickly marks completed tasks, active tasks, milestones, and date ranges to reveal critical project information and enable custom filters by duration or date.

Create your own Microsoft Project table by selecting fields such as task name, baseline duration, baseline start, and baseline finish, then edit the layout and share the table.

Learn to build custom reports in Microsoft Project, including charts and tables, selecting fields, adjusting chart types, and saving or switching to comparison reports.

Learn how to customize the ribbon in Microsoft Project by creating a new tab and groups, and adding frequently used commands to streamline work.

Record and replay a macro in Microsoft Project to format tasks by highlighting critical items in yellow, red, and bold, then view, edit, or delete macros via VBA.

Use the organizer to transfer custom views, reports, tables, filters, and calendars between project plans. Share these configurations across files, including the global file that stores configs.

Learn how to export and import Microsoft Project data to and from Excel and Word, using copy-paste and the export wizard with field mapping for tasks, durations, and dates.