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Strategically Focused Project Management (PMI - PMP)
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Strategically Focused Project Management (PMI - PMP)

Project Management Professional Certification Program (PMI-PMP)
Created bySorin Dumitrascu
Last updated 11/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Arrange the elements within the business strategy hierarchy
  • Identify elements of a project's strategic framework
  • Recognize characteristics of strategic project leadership
  • Identify actions that help to achieve and maintain strategic alignment
  • Match types of business environment analysis with situations when they would be used
  • Recognize project benefits analysis activities
  • Distinguish between stakeholder groups impacted by projects
  • Identify the stakeholders who are involved in the creation and communication of the project charter
  • Recognize effective methods for managing stakeholder expectations
  • Demonstrate your understanding of how to maintain strategic alignment during a project

Course content

1 section • 30 lectures • 2h 25m total length

  • A day in the life of a project manager3:52

    A day in the life of a project manager

  • Course Choice, Skill Development and Prior Knowledge
  • Course Overview1:34

    In this course, you'll learn about how to achieve that on your project from the creation of a project charter through closing the project.

  • Effective Learning7:04

    Effective Learning

  • FAQs1:02

    FAQs

  • Program Overview (I)9:21

    The Project Management Professional Certification Course (PMI-PMP) includes a number of 28 sections covering the most relevant information in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK6) developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

  • Program Overview (II)11:08

    The Project Management Professional Certification Course (PMI-PMP) includes a number of 28 sections covering the most relevant information in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK6) developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

  • Project Management Process Group and Knowledge Area Mapping0:12

    Project Management Process Group and Knowledge Area Mapping

  • Business Strategy Overview6:40

    After completing this topic, you should be able to arrange the elements within the business strategy hierarchy.

  • The Science of Better Learning5:14

    The Science of Better Learning

  • Influences of Organizational Structures on Projects0:13

    Influences of Organizational Structures on Projects

  • Project Strategy and Alignment6:40

    After completing this topic, you should be able to identify elements of a project's strategic framework.

  • The Evolving Role of the Project Manager6:41

    After completing this topic, you should be able to recognize characteristics of strategic project leadership.

  • Team Management and Team Leadership Compared0:16

    Team Management and Team Leadership Compared

  • Example of Project Manager’s Sphere of Influence0:09

    Example of Project Manager’s Sphere of Influence

  • Maintaining Strategic Alignment4:49

    After completing this topic, you should be able to identify actions that help to achieve and maintain strategic alignment.

  • The PMI Talent Triangle®0:20

    The PMI Talent Triangle®

  • Business Environment Analysis7:19

    After completing this topic, you should be able to match types of business environment analysis with situations when they would be used.

  • Examples of Factors that Lead to the Creation of a Project0:17

    Examples of Factors that Lead to the Creation of a Project

  • Project Benefits Analysis12:18

    After completing this topic, you should be able to recognize project benefits analysis activities.

  • Concepts, Insights and Inquiries
  • Project Initiation Context0:02

    Project Initiation Context

  • Project Stakeholder Impact3:53

    After completing this topic, you should be able to distinguish between stakeholder groups impacted by projects.

  • Communicating about the Project Charter5:10

    After completing this topic, you should be able to identify the stakeholders who are involved in the creation and communication of the project charter.

  • Managing Stakeholder Expectations5:59

    After completing this topic, you should be able to recognize effective methods for managing stakeholder expectations.

  • Exercise: Managing Strategic Alignment (I)10:03

    After completing this topic, you should be able to demonstrate your understanding of how to maintain strategic alignment during a project.

  • Exercise: Managing Strategic Alignment (II)12:03

    After completing this topic, you should be able to demonstrate your understanding of how to maintain strategic alignment during a project.

  • Practical Activity: Strategic Alignment in Project Management
  • Strategically Focused Project Management (PMI - PMP)
  • Strategically Focused Project Management (PMI - PMP)
  • PMI Certification Info0:03

    PMI Certification Info

  • Strategically Focused Project Management (PMI - PMP)1:31

    In this course, you'll learn about how to achieve that on your project from the creation of a project charter through closing the project.

  • Takeaways, Practical Applications and Endorsements
  • PMI PMP Exam Outline3:07

    PMI PMP Exam Outline

  • Ready to ace the PMI-PMP Exam?0:23

    After completing the Project Management Professional Certification Program (PMP), take your preparation to the next level with the Test Prep: Project Management Professional: PMI - PMP Exam Mastery.

    Dive deep into key topics, practice with real exam scenarios, and ensure you're fully equipped to conquer the PMI exams with confidence.

  • Applied Knowledge is the Real Power17:45

    You think knowing stuff changes the game? You think sitting in a library, stacking up facts like you’re building a Jenga tower, is gonna make you a winner? Man, that’s cute. But life ain't a trivia night. Information alone? It’s worthless. It’s like having a Lamborghini in your garage but you never learned how to drive. You just sit in it, making engine noises. Vroom vroom. People walk by, they see the car, but they also see you ain't going nowhere. You got all this knowledge, all these textbooks, but when life throws a punch, you’re still looking up the definition of "duck." It’s what you *do* with that information that actually matters. Don't be the person with the shiny car and no keys.

Requirements

  • No special requirements or prerequisites are needed to take this course, but some extra reading about projects, project management, project life cycle, organizational project management, project scope, project schedule, project costs, project quality, project human resources and project communications will help.
  • Part of the Project Management Professional Certification Course (PMI-PMP)

Description

The Strategically Focused Project Management (PMI - PMP) is course 5 of 28 of the Project Management Professional Certification Program (PMI-PMP). The course is aligned with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK6) developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

As a project manager, your role is to ensure that each project starts out and remains in line with the company's strategic goals and delivers expected value.

In this course, you'll learn about how to achieve that on your project from the creation of a project charter through closing the project. We'll also discuss how to manage stakeholder relationships, with the goal of keeping their expectations in line with strategic goals.

1. Business Strategy Overview
2. Project Strategy and Alignment
3. The Evolving Role of the Project Manager
4. Maintaining Strategic Alignment
5. Business Environment Analysis
6. Project Benefits Analysis
7. Project Stakeholder Impact
8. Communicating about the Project Charter
9. Managing Stakeholder Expectations
10. Exercise: Managing Strategic Alignment

Throughout the course, you'll gain the tools you need for success. We'll cover practical techniques and frameworks that help you identify and analyze strategic opportunities, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and proactively address potential risks that could derail your project's alignment with broader goals. By understanding the principles of strategic project management, you'll gain a powerful skillset, one that empowers you to make a real impact for your projects and organization.

That’s it! Now go ahead and push that “Take this course” button, and see you on the inside!

Who this course is for:

  • Leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, professionals and project workers with or without formal project management training will improve project management skills and knowledge and will be ready to stand for formal certification.

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