PMP Certification Preparatory Online Course (PMBOK 6th Ed.)

Develop project charter in project integration management formally authorizes a project and empowers the manager with resources, guided by the business case, agreements, and expert judgment.

Explore the manage project knowledge process in project integration management, leveraging existing knowledge and creating new insights to support project objectives and organizational learning.

Explore how to review and approve change requests in the perform integrated change control process, updating baselines, project documents, and the change log.

Close project or phase finalizes all activities across project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase, delivering the final product transition and final report.

Identify and document stakeholder needs in planning process group to meet project objectives, producing requirements documentation and a requirements traceability matrix using inputs like the project charter and stakeholder register.

Define scope guides developing a detailed description of the project and product, using inputs like the project charter and project management plan, and applying expert judgment and product analysis.

Explore how to monitor and control project and product scope, using variance analysis and work performance information to manage changes to the scope baseline and generate change requests.

Explore plan schedule management as the first step in project time management, establishing the schedule management plan with inputs from the project charter and project management plan.

Define activities identifies and documents the actions to produce project deliverables. Apply decomposition, rolling wave planning, and expert judgement to craft the activity list, attributes, and milestones.

Identify and document relationships among project activities using the precedence diagramming method (PDM / AON), detailing FS, SS, FF, SF dependencies and leads and lags.

Estimate activity durations applies bottom-up, analogous, parametric, and three-point estimating within project time management to determine activity lengths and produce duration estimates.

Control schedule monitors project time management, updates progress, and manages changes to the schedule baseline in the monitoring and controlling group using performance reviews, earned value management, and schedule forecasts.

Plan cost management within project cost management, covering fixed, variable, direct, indirect, and sunk costs, using inputs like charter and management plan to guide budgeting.

Identify quality requirements for the project and deliverables, using cost-benefit analysis, benchmarking, and quality metrics to demonstrate compliance with standards.

Audit and improve quality management within the executing process by evaluating quality requirements against measurements. Use checklists, data analysis, root-cause analysis, and quality audits to generate reports and change requests.

Acquire resources by applying multi-criteria decision analysis and negotiation to obtain team members, facilities, and other resources for the executing process group, including virtual teams.

Coordinate and monitor project team performance, resolve conflicts, and implement staffing changes using inputs like the project management plan, team charter, and work performance reports.

Identify risks in the planning process group using data gathering, swot analysis, root-cause analysis, and assumption analysis to populate the risk register with identified risks and owners.

Implement risk responses in the executing process group by applying risk response plans, guided by inputs like the project management plan, risk register, and PMIS.

Monitor risks by tracking risk responses, identifying new risks, and evaluating risk process effectiveness using inputs such as the project management plan, risk register, and risk report.

Plan procurement management documents procurement decisions, specifies the approach, and identifies potential sellers, contract types, and strategies to acquire outside goods, services, or results for the project.

Learn how procurement management aligns internal and external stakeholders through agreements by obtaining seller proposals, evaluating bids, negotiating terms, and awarding contracts.

Control procurements manages procurement relationships, monitors contract performance, and implements changes to meet procurement terms, using expert judgement, claims administration, and data analysis to produce key outputs.