Tutorial on Project Management Professional

Explore the PMP overview: understand PMI, the PMBOK guide, eligibility, and the exam structure with five process groups, 14 knowledge areas, 49 processes, and a 200-question, four-hour exam.

Define a project as a temporary, unique delivery; introduce PMI program and portfolio concepts, stakeholders, and the project manager as integrator applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques.

Discover the project management framework and PMO roles, along with functional, projectized, and matrix structures. Learn the project lifecycle and product lifecycle, the five process groups, and the ten knowledge areas.

Explore the project management framework, detailing process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing - with 49 processes including integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, procurement, resources, communications, stakeholders.

Master project integration management by linking across knowledge areas, developing the project charter and management plan, directing work, managing knowledge, and performing integrated change control to close projects.

Explore the seven processes of project integration management, from charter development to project close, and learn to direct work, manage knowledge, monitor performance, and apply integrated change control.

Explore project scope management: plan scope management, collect requirements, define scope, create a work breakdown structure, validate scope, and control scope to prevent scope creep and gold-plating.

Define the project and product scope with a detailed description and boundaries. Create a work breakdown structure, establish the scope baseline, and apply validated and controlled scope through change control.

Explore project schedule management by defining activities, estimating durations, and sequencing tasks with relationship types. Build network diagrams to identify the critical path and support stakeholder communication.

Master project schedule management by planning, defining activities, sequencing activities, estimating durations, developing the schedule with a critical path and Gantt charts, and controlling the schedule.

Develop the project schedule by estimating activity durations using analogous, parametric, three-point (triangular and beta) and bottom-up methods, then set the schedule baseline and calendars.

Explore calculating the critical path, forward and backward passes, and float, including total and free floats, while learning schedule compression techniques like fast tracking and crashing, plus control schedule practices.

Explore project cost management, including planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs within the cost baseline using techniques like analogous, parametric, bottom-up, and three-point estimates.

Learn to monitor and control project costs using earned value analysis, cost variance, schedule variance, CPI and SPI, and forecast the estimate at completion and estimate to complete.

Explore project quality management, from planning, assurance, and control, to cost of conformance and nonconformance, ensuring requirements, usability, and continuous improvement via Kaizen and Deming cycle.

Explore plan, manage, and control project quality using metrics and the seven basic quality tools, including control charts, Pareto diagrams, and Ishikawa for root-cause analysis.

Explore how to identify, acquire, and manage labor, non-labor, and material resources, apply the six project resource management processes, build teams, and clarify roles with RAM and RACI charts.

Acquire resources to complete project work through resource management, resource estimates, and enterprise environmental factors. Develop and manage the project team, assign resources, and control resource usage to optimize performance.

Explore project communications management by planning, managing, and monitoring information flows; learn about formal and informal methods, channels, media, noise, and the two-way feedback model.

Plan the project communications by identifying stakeholder needs and responsibilities in the communications plan. Manage and monitor communications with appropriate channels and interpersonal skills to ensure timely information exchange.

Explore risk management concepts like negative and positive risk, risk probability and impact, risk tolerance and threshold, and the calculation of expected monetary value to inform project decisions.

Explore the seven processes of project risk management for a mobile app development project, from planning risk management to monitoring risk.

Master project risk management by planning risk activities, identifying risks, performing qualitative and quantitative analyses, planning and implementing risk responses, and monitoring risk throughout the project.

Plan, conduct, and control project procurement to define contracts and documents, select sellers, advertise bids, award contracts, and monitor performance.

Explore project stakeholder management by identifying stakeholders, planning and managing engagement, and monitoring outcomes using the power-interest grid and stakeholder engagement assessment metrics.

Identify, plan, manage, and monitor project stakeholders using inputs like the project charter and business documents, applying expert judgment and the power–interest grid to tailor engagement.