PMP 5 Hours Cram Course

Discover the PMP exam framework, including the Echo Exam Content Outline, Exam Reference list, PMBoK, Agile Practice Guide, and ethics guidance, with guidance on 35 contact hours and 60 PDUs.

Explore the fundamentals of project management, distinguish projects from operations, and apply tailoring to manage internal or external projects while prioritizing scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, and risk.

Learn how to initiate a project by building a business case, evaluating value through 3BL, defining scope and deliverables, and securing formal authorization with a project charter.

Identify key project stakeholders, including the project manager, team, sponsor, and product owner, across agile and predictive approaches. Learn to document roles and interests in a stakeholder register.

analyze and classify project stakeholders using power–interest grids, salience models, and other tools to tailor engagement. develop a stakeholder engagement plan to manage expectations and collaboration.

Engage project stakeholders through effective sender-receiver communication, address noise and context, adapt to high context and low context cultures, and balance formal, informal, and interactive channels.

Learn to resolve conflicts among stakeholders and team members using 16 strategies, from collaboration and confrontation to withdrawing, achieving win-win or better final resolutions.

Set up a productive work environment by choosing co-located, virtual, or mixed teams, establishing a war room, and implementing a team charter, ground rules, code of conduct, and cultural norms.

Acquire the team by setting rules, preparing the work environment, and considering pre assignment; assemble cross functional, T-shaped and I-shaped members, guided by MBTI, while avoiding halo effect and ethnocentrism.

Align the team with the project vision, foster collaboration and trust, and apply servant leadership, especially in agile contexts, to grow teams while using transformational and transactional styles.

Develops team skills and collaboration through techniques like team building, pairing, swarming, and mobbing, and shadowing, and guides conducting gap analysis, training, and transition planning to boost cohesion and performance.

Motivate your team through leadership style, collaborative culture, and agile self-organization, aligning Maslow's hierarchy and ERG needs with Herzberg’s factors to boost performance and reduce turnover.

Explore how project managers wield 14 power types to influence decisions, motivation, and culture, from legitimate and reward power to expert, relational, and informational power.

Explore predictive, adaptive, and hybrid project development approaches, from waterfall to agile, and learn how cadence, cycles, and continuous delivery shape your project outcomes.

Explore the project life cycle and process groups, compare project and product life cycles, and learn how initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing drive deliverables.

Explore agile frameworks rooted in the agile mindset and manifesto, including four values, twelve principles, and methods like Kanban, Scrum, Crystal, XP, and blended agile frameworks.

Explore scrum fundamentals, including roles, artifacts, and events, and how transparency, inspection, adaptation, and core values guide a scrum team from the product backlog to an increment in timeboxed sprints.

Learn to collect and analyze project requirements, distinguish them from specifications, and apply techniques like brainstorming, voice of the customer, mind maps, and context diagrams to reach consensus for planning.

Develop a predictive project schedule by building a work breakdown structure and WBS dictionary, mapping activities with a network diagram, sequencing dependencies, and applying CPM, critical path, and resource leveling.

Develop an adaptive project schedule by using themes, epics, and user stories, with a clear definition of done and acceptance criteria, guided by a product roadmap and go-live plan.

Explore diverse estimation techniques for project costs and durations, from preliminary rough estimates to bottom-up and parametric methods, including planning poker and three-point estimates.

Master prioritization techniques such as Kano model, Moscow method, paired comparison, 100 points, and prioritization matrix to select high-value work, then use timeboxing to deliver tasks aligned with project objectives.

Tailor planning activities to your project's context by analyzing assumptions and constraints and reviewing enterprise environmental factors, standards, policies, and organizational process assets to guide decisions.

Monitor project work by tracking performance with trend analysis and burn charts, manage changes to prevent scope creep and gold plating, and forecast with data-driven insights.

Learn how to manage project knowledge by capturing tacit and explicit knowledge, documenting lessons, and using meetings, storytelling, and kanban boards to share insights and improve project value.

Plan procurement needs during project planning, prepare bid documents (RFP, RFQ, RFIs), use scoring criteria to select sellers, and establish contracts (POs, LOIs, MOUs) with inspections or audits.

Explore how different contract types—fixed price, cost reimbursable, and time and materials—shape procurement risk, negotiation, and award decisions, with roles like contract administrator guiding governance.

Master delivering project scope through scope control and change management, validating deliverables with client acceptance and defining clear acceptance criteria across predictive and adaptive environments.

Elevate project quality by integrating quality assurance and control, aligning deliverables with customer requirements, and applying standards such as ISO 9000 and Six Sigma.

Set realistic quality objectives and balance prevention, appraisal, and non-conformance costs to manage the cost of quality across the project life cycle.

Develop a clear approach to project delivery by aligning planning, quality management, and stakeholder engagement with phased execution, milestones, and phase reviews for on time, on budget results.

Assess project performance by defining measurable objectives and using smart KPIs to analyze work performance data with histograms, Pareto charts, run charts, control charts, and scatter or bubble charts.

Apply earned value measurements in projects by using EVM to monitor scope, schedule, and cost against baselines, using EV, PV, AC, and EAC to predict variances and guide corrective actions.

Explore agile performance metrics that emphasize outcomes over predictions, using empirical measurements, CFD, throughput, cycle time, and burn charts to optimize cost, schedule, and quality.

Evaluate project business goals using financial metrics (BCR, ROI, NPV, IRR, and payback) and non-financial measures like time to market and customer satisfaction via mood charts and Net Promoter Score.

Navigate volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in a Vuca environment to understand risk types and differentiate known risks, unknown unknowns, issues, and inherent, residual, and secondary risks.

Analyze project risks by evaluating risk appetite and applying what-if, sensitivity, monte carlo, and decision tree analyses to forecast cost, schedule impacts, and select optimal risk responses.

Identify and plan risks across agile meetings, assign risk ownership, and choose active or passive responses with contingencies. Document risks in a risk register and support with audits and reviews.