PMP Course (Knowledge Area-Based) (39 PDUs)

The PMO centralizes project management, acting as a stakeholder and decision maker to align projects with business objectives. Supports, controls, or directs projects with templates, standards, and training.

Explore the project manager's sphere of influence, roles, and responsibilities across stakeholders, sponsors, and end users; learn how to balance budget, schedule, and resources through proactive communication and cross-project coordination.

Learn PMI research-informed leadership qualities, including visionary goal setting, collaborative problem solving, effective communication, and servant leadership, to build trust, balance scope, and empower teams.

Develop project charter process creates a formal document that authorizes the project, assigns the project manager's authority, and links the initiative to organizational strategy.

Close the project or phase by finalizing activities, transferring the final product or service to the client, obtaining formal sign-off, and archiving records while releasing resources.

Explore emerging trends in scope management during the pre-conception phase, emphasizing collaboration between project managers and business analysts to shape the business case, define needs, and identify viable solutions.

Learn how the validate scope process formalizes delivery acceptance, distinguishing verification from validation, and ensures verified deliverables are accepted by clients and sponsors through inspections.

Define activities by decomposing work packages into actions that produce deliverables, enabling estimation, scheduling, and updating the activity list and attributes via rolling wave planning.

Transform a list of activities into a connected network diagram by documenting predecessors, successors, and leads and lags to define the sequence and publish the schedule baseline.

Explore agile considerations, on-demand scheduling and the theory of constraints to optimize bottlenecks, implement pull-based just-in-time production, and enhance backlog prioritization and retrospectives.

Define how costs will be estimated, budgeted, managed, monitored, and controlled through a cost management plan that sets baselines, thresholds, and uses earned value analysis.

Develop accurate cost estimates by applying analogous, parametric, bottom-up, and three-point techniques, balancing direct and indirect costs, risks, and quality across control accounts and reserves.

Monitor and control project costs by maintaining the cost baseline, applying earned value analysis, and using variance, trend, and reserve analyses to forecast and manage expenditures.

Plan quality management by identifying quality standards, creating a quality management plan and quality metrics and matrices, and tracking and optimizing project quality across processes, inputs, and stakeholders.

Translate the quality management plan into executable quality activities, embedding safety standards, and continuous improvement methods like Kaizen and Six Sigma to sustain project quality.

Develop team builds competencies and trust through proactive leadership and emotional intelligence to boost project performance, addressing collaboration, empowerment, cross-training, and the five stages of team development.

Explore negotiation as an inevitable skill that seeks win-win outcomes, BATNA awareness, and durable agreements, balancing price, terms, and trust through competence and authority.

Plan, execute, and monitor project communications to ensure timely, appropriate information flow; covers the communication management plan, written and spoken forms, internal and external channels, and stakeholder needs.

Enhance agile communications by ensuring accessible, up-to-date information through co-location or shared portals, enabling osmotic information flow. Promote transparency through stakeholder reviews and emphasis on working software over documentation.

Develop and implement a risk management plan to identify, analyze, monitor risks and responses, and define strategy, methodology, roles, funding, timing, and risk categories.

Identify risks early by documenting individual and overall project risks in the risk register and risk reports, guiding proactive team ownership.

Plan risk responses guide option development, strategy selection, and resource allocation to address project and individual risks, using inputs, tools, and contingencies to manage overall risk exposure.

Learn two flowcharts for managing identified risks, detailing non-contingent and contingency strategies from risk identification through qualitative and quantitative analysis, planning, implementing, monitoring, and adjusting responses.