Content :

Module 1: Introduction of a Project and Project Management         

• • Educational, Professional Eligibility and PMP Exam Overview (Question Type and Marking)
  • Think like PMI (PMI-ism) while preparing for the exam.
  • Purpose of PMBOK and definition of a Project.
  • What is Project and Project Management? Importance of Project Management
  • Relationship among project, program and portfolio and management of these
  • Diverse Project lifecycles, Distinguish between Projects and Operations
  • Project Management Framework, Project Stakeholders, Project Team
  • Diverse Organization Types with advantage and disadvantages
  • Organizational Process Assets and Enterprise Environmental Factors
  • PLC Vs. PMLC
  • Project Management process groups and Project management knowledge area
  • Mapping between Project Management Process Groups and Knowledge Groups

 

Module 2: Project Initiation and Integration Management         

• • Short Quiz on Introduction
  • Developing Project Charter – Creating Project Charter, High Level Risk, Budget, Constraints, Assumptions, etc.
  • Few Important Concepts for the Exam: PV- Present value, FV – Future value, NPV- Net Present Value, ROI – Return of Investment, IRR – Internal Rate of Return, Diverse depreciation types, payback period, BCR – Benefit Cost Ratio)
  • Develop PMP – Project Management Plan and subsidiary/child plans
  • Direct and Manage Project Work – Directing and managing project executions, creating deliverables and executing CRs
  • Manage Project Knowledge – Developing lesson learned register based on the experience from the diverse processes.
  • Monitor and control project work – Monitoring and controlling overall project progress, assessing performance and forecasting.
  • Perform integrated change control – Manage and control changes through change/configuration control process
  • Close project – Closing a phase or a project

 

Module 3: Project Scope Management         

• • Quiz on project integration management
  • Plan Scope Management – How will the overall scope and requirements of the project be managed (defined, validated and controlled)
  • Collect Requirements – How to collect requirements and create requirements documentation
  • Define Scope – How to define scopes from the collected requirements of a project
  • Create WBS – Creating a WBS from the defined scope
  • Validate Scope – Validate the scopes with the respective stakeholders through deliverables
  • Control Scope – Control overall project scope, scope creep, gold plating and preventing unnecessary changes.

 

Module 4: Project Schedule Management          

• • Quiz on Scope management
  • Plan Schedule Management – How the schedule of a project will be developed, monitored and controlled.
  • Define Activities – Define activities from the lower level of WBS
  • Sequence Activities – Determine dependencies and sequence activities
  • Estimate Activity Durations – Estimate duration of the activities considering the assigned resources
  • Develop Schedule – How to develop a schedule of a project?
  • Detailed discussion and practice on diverse estimation and scheduling tools and techniques (PERT, CPM (backward pass, forward pass, lead lag, free float,  total float)
  • Control Schedule – Controlling a project schedule

 

Module 5: Project Cost Management        

• • Plan Cost Management – How the budget and cost of a project is managed, monitored and controlled
  • Cost Estimating & Budgeting – Cost estimation with diverse estimating techniques
  • Cost Monitoring & Control – Monitor and control overall project cost, measure performance through earned value management
  • Detailed discussion on Earned Value Management (SV, CV, SPI, CPI ; – EAC , ETC) and  other formulas (TCPI) to forecast project cost and achieve expected performances
  • Practice questions to clear understanding

 

Module 6: Quality Management        

• • Quiz on Cost management
  • Important Concept, Definitions and definition of quality, Cost of Quality
  • Plan Quality Management – Identifying and planning quality requirements for a project and how the project will demonstrate the compliance with the requirements
  • Detailed discussion and understanding of the Diverse Quality Standards and Tools
  • Manage Quality – Ensure project quality through the necessary Audits and Tools
  • Control Quality – What is quality inspection, what does quality control mean and relevant tools
  • Discussion and understanding on difference between quality assurance and quality control

 

Module 7: HR Management       

• • Quiz on Quality management
  • Plan Human Resource Management – Discuss diverse organization charts, Roles and responsibilities, staffing plan and training plan
  • Estimate Activity Resources – Estimate resources to perform the defined activities
  • Acquire Resources – Acquiring project team members from cross functional teams, vendors, acquire/ensure pre-assigned resources and required experts resources through negotiation.
  • Develop Team – Training, team building activities, reward recognitions, team performance assessments etc.
  • Manage Team – Overall project performance appraisals, Leadership styles of a Project Manager, Conflict resolution
  • Diverse Motivation Theories
  • Control Resources – Ensure resources are assigned to project as planned and monitoring planned Vs actual utilization and taking necessary corrective actions

 

Module 8: Communication Management       

• • Quiz on HR management
  • Plan Communication – How the overall project communication will be mapped, happened, and controlled
  • Monitor and Control Project Communications: Diverse communication Types / Methods, Communication Channel and Communication Process

 

Module 9: Risk Management        

• • Quiz on Communication management
  • Plan Risk Management – How risks and issues of the project will be managed
  • Identify Risk – Identifying potential risks
  • Qualitative Risk Analysis – Analyze the probability and impact of the identified risks and define risk exposer
  • Quantitative Risk Analysis – Analyze quantitative values (monetary) of the identified risks
  • Plan Risk Response – Plan suitable responses/mitigation strategy against the identify risks
  • Implement Risk Responses – Implementation of responses that has been planned against identified risks
  • Control Risk – Monitor the risks, measure performance and exposers, apply reserves etc.

 

Module 10: Procurement Management         

• • Quiz on Risk management
  • Plan Procurement – How will the procurement of a project be happened? Diverse contract types, make or buy decisions, Procurement SOW, Identify selection criteria
  • PTA calculation
  • Conduct Procurement – Bidders conference, negotiations, proposal evaluations and Select sellers
  • Control Procurement – Evaluate procurement performance, Claims administration etc.
  • Close Procurement – Conduct procurement audits, negotiate and settle claims and disputes and close procurement contracts.

 

Module 11: Stakeholder Management           

• • Identify Stakeholder – Identify stakeholder and create Stakeholder Register, Identify interest and power of the diverse stakeholders
  • Plan Stakeholder Engagement – Plan for managing the relevant stakeholders as per the identification and analysis of their interest and influence
  • Manage Stakeholder Engagement – Manage engagements and the relevant stakeholder
  • Monitor Stakeholder engagement – Control stakeholder engagement through necessary information distribution and performance reporting

 

Module 12: Concluding session          

• • How to apply for the certification exam and sample excel file preparation for experience write up
  • Mock Exam

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