Project Management Professional® Training

Course Code: 1628

$800

Project Management Professional® Training

Prepare for the Project Management Professional Certification Exam

Course Code : 1628

$800

Overview
Schedule classes
What you'll learn
Outline
Prerequisites
Who should attend
Certification

Overview

This course helps develop leadership, negotiation and conflict resolution skills in the context of understanding the skills and capabilities of successfully project management. PMP^® training imparts a basic understanding of project management methodology and processes, covering intermediate to advanced project management concepts, and focusing on the critical tasks, activities and challenges faced by project managers. The course prepares participants for Project Management Institute’s^® PMP certification exam.

“PMI”, “Project Management Professional” and “PMP” are registered marks of Project Management Institute, Inc.

Schedule Classes

Delivery Format
Starting Date
Starting Time
Duration

Live Virtual Classroom
Saturday, 2 May 2020
10:30 AM - 01:30 PM
12 Days (Sat - Sun)

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 10 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 10 days

What You'll learn

Basic characteristics of a project
What is project management
Strategic management in the Project Management Office
The Project Management Lifecycle
Processes and their interaction in Project Management
Best practices in project management

Outline

Module 1: Introduction

What is a project?
Comparison between Project and Operation
What is Project Management and Project Environment
Concept of Triple constraint
Triggers/reasons for doing a project
Project, program and portfolio management (key differences)

Module 2: The environment in which projects operate

Overview
Enterprise environmental factors – internal and external
Organizational process assets
Organizational systems

Module 3: The role of a project manager

Overview
Definition of a project manager
Project manager’s sphere of influence
Project manager’s competencies
Performing integration
Organizational systems
Project manager skills
Project management processes
Stakeholder analysis and management
Project management office – role, purpose and responsibilities
Organization structure – types of project organization structure (Functional, matrix projectized structure)
Project vs. product lifecycle

Module 4: Project management knowledge areas

Project integration management
- Integration activities
- Project charter – creation, review
- Plan the project, execute the plan, monitor and control project, integrated change control and closure
Project scope management
- Requirement analysis selection and control
- Scope definition
- Scope management
- How to manage scope creep
- Scope verification
Project schedule management
- Activity planning, sequencing and estimation
- Estimating activity duration
- Developing project schedules using techniques like CPM/PERT
- Schedule baseline
- Controlling schedule
Project cost management
- Cost planning
- Cost estimation
- Using earned value concept for cost management
- Cost baseline
- Control cost
Project quality management
- Quality planning
- Quality assurance and control
- Cost of quality
- 7 QC tools – Fish bone diagram, Pareto charts, Control charts, Run charts, Check sheet and Scatter diagram
Project resources management
- Human and non-human resource planning
- Resource estimation
- Managing key Resourcing challenges
- Managing Team
- Motivating Human Resources
Project communication management
- Planning, Strategy and Networking
- Communication Protocols & Information Distribution
- Communication Changes
- Controlling Communications
Project risk management
- Risk Planning
- Definition of Risk
- Risk Analysis (Quantitative and Qualitative)
- Risk vs. Opportunity (Concept of Positive Risk)
- Risk Response & Control Strategies
Project procurement management
- Planning
- Managing Procurement Contracts
- Administering Contracts
- Types of Contracts
- Contract closure
Project stakeholder management
- Identify Stakeholders
- Communication with Stakeholders
- Manage Stakeholder Engagement
- Control Stakeholder Engagement
Professional and social responsibility
- PMI Code of Conduct
- Applicability of Code of Conduct
- PMI Continuous Certification Requirements (CCR)

Prerequisites

Participants need to have attended at least 35 hours of classroom/online training in project management. Minimum 4500 hours of project management experience, during the last 8 consecutive years, covering the five process groups is essential in case the participant holds a four year (Bachelor’s or equivalent) degree at the time of application. In case the participant holds a high school diploma or equivalent at the time of application, they need to have a minimum of 7500 hours of project management experience during the last 8 consecutive years, covering the five process groups.

Who Should Attend

This course is highly recommended for –

Project managers
IT managers/directors
Outsourcing professionals
QA managers/directors
Application development managers/directors
Business analysts
Systems analysts
Systems architects

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Certification

Upon completion of this course participants are prepared to attempt the Project Management Professional certification exam.

The PMP exam blueprint is as follows –

Particular	Weightage
Initiation	13%
Planning	24%
Executing	30%
Monitoring and controlling	25%
Closing	8%
Total	100%

The exam details are as follows –

Exam name	Project Management Professional certification exam
Exam format	Multiple-choice questions
Number of unscored questions	25
Number of scored questions	175
Exam duration	4 hours