Training Duration:

5 days

Training Outline:

This intensive training provides 5 days of classroom instruction. Instruction is designed to quickly and efficiently give you information, skills, strategies, and techniques to lead to successful preparation for your certification exam. This includes practice exams, facilitated classroom discussions, and individualized student/instructor interaction.

The training session is made up of 11 modules:

1. Introduction & Integration Management

   Introduction to Project Management, management processes, organizational structures, PM skills, and the nine knowledge areas. Integrating the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and Project Management activities, within the Project Management Process Groups.

2. Project Scope Management

   Project Scope Management includes all of the processes that are required to ensure that the project is completed successfully. · Identifying and managing Stakeholders and gathering project requirements. · Creating the Project Scope Statement based on the Project Charter and Preliminary Scope Statement. · Developing a Scope Management Plan · Use of the decomposition technique to break down the problem statement into smaller more manageable delivery components. · Verifying project results · Controlling the overall Scope of the project.

3. Project Time Management

   Define scheduled activities and place them in a logical sequence based on their dependencies. Estimate the duration of each activity and their resources. Incorporate all of these activities to develop a Project Schedule, and maintain and control the Project Schedule.

4. Project Cost Management

   Project Cost Management includes Cost Estimating, Cost Budgeting, and Cost Controlling. The primary goal of Cost Management is to complete the project successfully within the approved budget.

5. Project Quality Management

   Project Quality Management includes Quality Planning, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control. The Quality Management plan ensures that the Project Team implements quality polices that are defined by the customer.

6. Project Human Resource Management

   Project Human Resource Management includes the organizing and management of the Project Team. This includes the development of a Staffing Management Plan for acquiring and developing the Project Team.

7. Project Communications Management

   Project Communications Management ensures that all project related information is distributed among the Stakeholders in a timely manner with appropriate content and format. It also covers the storing and retrieving of project related information.

8. Project Risk Management

   Project Risk Management includes Risk Management Planning, Risk Identification, and a Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis. Create a Risk Response Plan based on this analysis and then Monitor and Control the Risk.

9. Project Procurement Management

   Project Procurement Management is the purchasing or acquiring of goods and services outside the performing organization. It includes various contract types, bidding, negotiations, and the administration of the contract.

10. Professional Responsibility

    This is the balancing and maintaining of Stakeholder interests, business ethics, legal requirements, and the reconciling of cultural differences. This also includes the responsibility of adhering to the PMP Code of Conduct.

11. Test taking strategies and techniques

    Memorization skills, and study techniques Each module of our comprehensive course is followed by a practice exam.

Who should attend:

This course is designed for persons who have on the job experience performing project management tasks, whether or not project manager is their formal job role, who are not certified project management professionals, and who might or might not have received formal project management training. The course is appropriate for these persons if they wish to develop professionally, increase their project management skills, apply a formalized and standards-based approach to project management, seek career advancement by moving into a formal project manager job role, as well as to apply for Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI®) Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification.

Prerequisites: 

Familiarity with project management concepts and some working experience with project management are required. Experience with a specific project management software tool is not required. Microsoft Word Level 1 is required. Project Management Fundamentals is recommended.

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