PMP Certification Training- Exam Preparation Course 35 PDUs

Understand project integration management across its seven processes and five process groups. Align deliverables with the project life cycle and the benefits management plan using inputs, tools, and outputs.

Learn to develop the project charter, the document that authorizes a project and links it to strategic objectives, using inputs like business documents, agreements, and enterprise environmental factors.

Develop a comprehensive project management plan by defining scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and resources, baselining them, and applying integrated change control within project integration management.

Lead the work defined in the project management plan and implement approved changes. Produce deliverables and manage work performance data, issues, and change requests throughout the project.

Manage project knowledge, a core project integration process, uses explicit and tacit knowledge to reuse and create knowledge, updating lessons learned register and organizational process assets throughout the project.

Monitor and control project work tracks, reviews, and reports progress to meet performance objectives defined in the project management plan, providing cost and schedule forecasts and change requests.

Apply integrated change control to review, approve, and manage change requests affecting deliverables, project documents, and the project management plan, recording decisions in the change management system.

Close project or phase finalizes all activities, confirms deliverable acceptance, closes project accounts, releases resources, archives records, and captures lessons learned for future use.

Master the six project scope management processes—plan scope management, collect requirements, define scope, create WBS, validate scope, and control scope—to define and control project scope and prevent gold plating.

Plan scope management defines how to define and control scope. Inputs are project charter, organizational assets, enterprise environmental factors, and management plan, producing scope management plan and requirements management plan.

Determine and document stakeholder needs to define product and project scope in planning, using expert judgment, data gathering, analysis, and prototypes to produce requirement documentation and a traceability matrix.

Define scope develops a detailed project scope statement from requirement documentation and major deliverables, detailing boundaries, acceptance criteria, assumptions, constraints, exclusions, via progressive elaboration.

Create WBS subdivides project deliverables into smaller components to form the work breakdown structure, guiding planning with expert judgment and decomposition into work packages.

Validate scope formalizes acceptance of completed deliverables by the customer or sponsor, turning verified deliverables into accepted ones and supporting project closure.

Monitor and control project scope to maintain the scope baseline, manage changes through integrated change control, using variance and trend analysis.

Explore project schedule management, planning and controlling the timely completion of projects through defining activities, sequencing, estimating durations, developing a schedule, and controlling the schedule.

Plan schedule management defines how to develop, monitor, and control the project schedule. It yields a schedule management plan informed by the charter, the project management plan, EEFs, and OPAs.

Define activities identifies and documents the actions needed to decompose work packages into schedule activities, providing a basis for estimating, scheduling, executing, monitoring, and controlling the project work.

Sequence activities define the logical relationships among project activities to optimize the schedule, using precedence diagramming method and leads and lags to produce a project schedule network diagram.

Estimate activity durations teaches how to compute each activity's duration using resources, calendars, and constraints, via expert judgment, analogous, parametric, three-point, bottom-up, and data analysis, with reserve analysis and voting.

Analyze schedule components such as activity sequences, durations, resources, and constraints to create a schedule model with planned dates, milestones, and a baseline for execution and monitoring.

Control schedule monitors project status to update the schedule baseline and manage changes, using inputs like the project management plan and work performance data, with critical path method.

Explore plan cost management, estimate costs, determine budget, and control costs to keep projects within the approved budget and align with the cost baseline.

Plan cost management defines how to estimate, budget, manage, monitor, and control project costs, producing the cost management plan and guiding cost decisions throughout the project.

Develop cost estimates for project activities by applying expert judgment and quantitative methods to resource costs, using inputs from the cost management plan, quality management plan, and scope baseline.

Learn how to determine budget by aggregating activity costs to establish the cost baseline, include contingency reserves, exclude management reserves, and finalize the project budget.

Control costs, the final process in project cost management, monitors the cost baseline and updates forecasts through integrated change control to keep the project on budget.

Explore the quality management knowledge area, including plan quality management, manage quality, and control quality. Learn how stakeholder quality requirements shape quality planning, quality execution, and quality deliverables.

Plan quality management identifies quality requirements and standards for the project and its deliverables, and documents how the project will demonstrate compliance with quality requirements and standards.

Translate the quality management plan into executable quality activities that implement the organization's policies, ensure quality objectives, drive continual improvement through quality assurance and audits throughout the project.

Learn how the control quality process monitors and records quality results to verify deliverables meet requirements, guiding corrective actions and ensuring stakeholder acceptance throughout the project.

Master project resource management by identifying, acquiring, and managing both human and physical resources to ensure timely and successful project completion.

Plan resource management defines how to estimate, acquire, manage and use team and physical resources, establishing the approach and level of management effort for securing resources at right time.

Estimate activity resources identifies the types and quantities of team and physical resources needed. Use expert judgment and bottom up estimating to produce resource requirements and a resource breakdown structure.

Acquire resources explains obtaining internal and external physical and team resources for project work in the executing process group, covering procurement, pre-assignment, and resource calendars.

Develop team enhances competencies, team interactions, and the team environment to boost project performance, using open communication, trust, constructive conflict management, and collaborative problem solving guided by the Tuckman ladder.

Explore the manage team process within executing projects, tracking team performance, resolving conflicts, and fostering a high-performance team through leadership, communication, and effective decision making.

Control resources ensures physical resources are available as planned and monitored against actual utilization, with corrective actions as needed.

Explore project communications management, the seventh knowledge area. Learn plan communications management, manage communications, and monitor communications to ensure effective information exchange with stakeholders.

Plan communications management by developing an appropriate approach based on stakeholder information needs, available organizational assets, and project needs, and document a plan to engage stakeholders timely and effectively.

Develop mastery of the manage communications process within project communications management to ensure timely collection, distribution, storage, and disposition of project information, enabling effective stakeholder collaboration and flexible communication methods.

Monitor communications ensures project information needs and stakeholders' information flow are met, aligned with communications and stakeholder engagement plans, and informs changes using expert judgment and project management information system.

Explore project risk management basics, covering seven processes—plan risk management, identify risks, perform qualitative and quantitative analysis, plan and implement risk responses, and monitor risks.

Plan risk management defines how to conduct risk management activities for a project and produces a risk management plan detailing strategy, methodology, roles, funding, timing, risk categories, and reporting formats.

Identify risks pinpoints individual project risks and sources of overall project risk, documents their characteristics, and feeds the risk register and risk reports for proactive planning.

Perform qualitative risk analysis prioritizes identified risks by probability and impact, assigns risk owners responsible for planning risk responses, and updates risk registers within the planning process group.

Quantitatively analyze the combined effect of identified risks and uncertainties on project objectives. Use Monte Carlo simulations and sensitivity analysis to inform risk response planning with baselines and risk registers.

Develop plan risk responses by developing options, selecting strategies, and agreeing on actions to address overall project risk exposure and individual risks, allocating resources.

Implement risk responses, the sixth process of project risk management within the executing process group, executes agreed-upon risk responses to reduce threats, maximize opportunities, and address overall risk exposure.

Monitor risks throughout the project by tracking identified risks, identifying new risks, evaluating risk process effectiveness, and updating the project management plan, risk documents, and templates using work performance data.