Project Management Professional (PMP) 6th edition PMBOK

Explore the PMBOK framework across the three domains—people, processes, and business environment—showing how initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing rely on multiple knowledge areas.

Examine the project management framework, standards versus regulations, lifecycle types—predictive, iterative, incremental, agile, and hybrid—and tailor techniques to project needs.

Map each knowledge area to the project management process groups—initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing—detailing inputs, tools, and outputs, while noting how organizational process assets influence them.

Develop a project charter and project management plan using inputs like business case, benefits management plan, and agreements, and apply expert judgment and facilitation to establish baselines and kickoff actions.

Learn how five breakdown structures enhance the work breakdown structure: organizational breakdown structure, risk breakdown structure, resource breakdown structure, and bill of materials, ensuring a complete WBS dictionary.

Validate scope uses inspection to confirm deliverables meet requirements for client acceptance, generating accepted deliverables and change requests. Control scope analyzes variances against baselines to update plans and documentation.

Plan and control the project schedule by defining activities, sequencing them, estimating durations, and developing the schedule, while applying agile, backlog, and time-boxing techniques.

Explore dependencies and predecessor relationships that drive sequencing and the critical path, including mandatory versus discretionary, internal versus external, and the four relationship types, plus leads and lags.

Develop schedule uses inputs from the project management plan to create the schedule baseline and project schedule, employing network diagrams, the critical path method, data analysis, and scenario analysis.

Master estimating techniques from analogies, parametric, bottoms-up, and computerized methods, map dependencies with network diagrams, and apply slack and critical path concepts for agile planning.

Plan cost management and estimate cost using project charter, schedule and risk management plans, and enterprise environmental factors; apply expert judgment and data analysis to produce cost estimates with baselines.

Analyze lifecycle costing and total ownership cost; apply earned value rules or weighted milestones to determine the cost baseline, incorporating contingency reserves, management reserve, and control accounts.

Explore earned schedule as a simple, intuitive way to assess project progress by comparing earned value to planned value with S-curves, bridging earned value management and agile dashboards.

Define and tailor project quality management processes to meet ISO standards, manage quality, and control quality through audits and inspections, while applying continuous improvement, cost of quality, and agile retrospectives.

Manage quality by applying the quality management plan, audits, and metrics to ensure precision and accuracy, using fishbone diagrams, just-in-time inventory, and Six Sigma and ISO 9000 standards.

Explore quality management fundamentals, including meeting requirements, avoiding gold plating, and using retrospectives, checklists, and Ishikawa diagrams to improve project outcomes.

Explore the project risk management knowledge area, including planning, identifying, qualitative and quantitative analysis, plan and implement risk responses, and monitor risk across project, program, and enterprise levels.

Learn qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, applying inputs from the project management plan and risk register, using Monte Carlo simulations, probability and impact assessments, and producing risk reports.

Implement risk responses and monitor risks with risk registers and risk reports, conduct risk reviews at status meetings, and apply expert judgment with qualitative/quantitative analysis.

Explore procurement planning by mapping inputs from the project charter and management plans, perform make-or-buy analysis, and conduct procurements using the procurement management plan and source selection.

Explain the point of total assumption and how cost overruns are shared in fixed-price incentive contracts between buyer and seller, with target cost, ceiling price, and share ratio.

Explore non-competitive awards like sole source and single source, and how contract administrators and project managers control procurements through standard terms, with negotiations and formal acceptance.

Examine agile contracts that manage uncertainty by balancing buyer and seller incentives, including money for nothing and change for free, graduated fixed price, and fixed price work packages.

Examine agile communications, comparing formal and informal methods, web conferences, email, and social tools, then enable daily stand-ups, pair programming, and feedback loops to boost collaboration.

Explore how effective communication drives project success, how blockers create conflict and delay, and how to review communications and stakeholder engagement plans to prevent gaps.

Identify key stakeholder positions in project management, including sponsors, senior management, functional managers, the PMO, sellers, business partners, and customers, and explain their roles and decision authorities.

Identify stakeholders using inputs from the project charter, business case, and benefits management plan, and apply the four magical questions to update the stakeholder register.

Monitor stakeholder engagement using data analysis, stakeholder engagement assessment matrices, and agile techniques to safeguard stakeholder needs, educate stakeholders, and drive project success.

Plan resource management, estimate activity resources, and acquire and develop the team, then monitor and control physical resources, with adaptive life cycle strategies guiding collaboration.

Identify agile team roles, such as development team and product owner, and apply practices like daily stand-ups, backlog management, and iteration planning to deliver product increments.

Learn how to acquire and manage project teams, including outsourcing and negotiating for the right skill set and competency, while fostering high performance, self-organized teams in agile and hybrid lifecycles.

Learn how the business environment domain ties portfolio, program, and organizational project management to strategic goals, with project selection and types like bread and butter, pearls, oysters, and white elephants.

Align portfolios with organizational goals, coordinate programs to standards, and manage projects on time, budget, and scope, while applying six constrained optimization tools in agile and hybrid environments.