Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification (DUPLICATE)
- 300 + Students Empowered
- 4.5/5 Best Selling Program
- Format Instructor-Led online Program and Self-Learn Online Program
- Start Date: Instructor-Led Program Date To Be Announced
Course Description:
PMP® certification is like a gold standard certificate in project management offered by PMI. Our Training program is designed to provide 100% coverage of the PMP Exam Content Outline, as provided by PMI. The Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification Prep course is designed to help professionals prepare for the PMP® certification exam. Gain the skills to design, organize, execute, and drive project success in any industry, regardless of project size or complexity. PMP® is a designation offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI)® to practitioners who demonstrate their understanding, enhance competence and knowledge in Project management techniques, and establish your ability to handle complex project challenges with confidence. Study Materials are based on the “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” (PMBOK ® Guide).
- 35 Hrs Instructor-Led Training
- 35 PDUs Certificate on Course Completion
- Aligned With New PMP Examination Outline (ECO)
- Aligned with PMBOK® Guide
- PMP Application and Exam Support
The course includes hands-on activities and simulations to help students apply the concepts they’ve learned. After taking this course, professionals should be prepared to pass the PMP® exam, which is a globally recognized certification in project management.
Course Objectives:
The aim of this Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification Prep Training is to provide learners with the knowledge and skills required to successfully manage large-scale projects, from initial planning and development through to final deployment and completion. By the end of the course, learners should be able to:
➜ Identify the core concepts, processes and practices of project management.
➜ Utilize the PMP methodology and its tools to plan and manage projects.
➜ Understand the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in project management.
➜ Apply earned value concepts to successful projects.
➜ Examine project risk management and how to identify and manage project risks.
➜ Improve quality control practices by developing an understanding of quality management and improvement.
➜ Learn how to report progress, develop project closure reports and activate key project lessons learned.
➜ Prepare for the PMP certification exam.
Why become a Project Management Professional (PMP®)?
➜ Sets the Global Standard – Increase your credibility, deep knowledge, and increased earning potential.
➜ Show you are the Best – Your clients know they are working with the best.
➜ Make you well equipped – Get well equipped with the best practices of Project Management.
➜ Opens the door to higher earning potential – CIO magazine ranked the PMP as the top project management certification.
➜ PMP is Today’s In-Demand Skills – PMP helps to land your dream job.
➜ Increase Professional Network – Helps to connect with professionals with similar interests or backgrounds.
Prerequisites:
- A secondary degree (i.e., high school diploma, associate’s degree, or global equivalent)
- 7,500 hours experience leading and directing projects
- 35 hours of project management education
- A four-year degree with 4,500 hours leading and directing projects
- 35 hours of project management education
Who Should Attend?
- Developer, Team leader
- Technical leader and technical manager
- Assistance manager and resource manager
- Business analyst and Sr. Business analyst
- Scrum Master, Product Owner
- Tester and system analyst
- Quality manager and production support manager
- Design engineer and quality analyst
- Civil engineer and architect
- Sales manager and marketing manager
- Any profile where management techniques are required.
Course Content:
Introduction: Project Management
- What is a Project?
- What is Project Management?
- Project vs Program vs Portfolio
- Project Life Cycle
- Project Manager and his Roles & Responsibilities
- Trends in Project Management
- Agile Considerations
- Importance of PMO
- Types of Organization and their influences in a project
- Other factors influencing a project
- Stakeholders and their influence in a project
Domain I People—42%
Manage conflict
- Interpret the source and stage of the conflict
- Analyze the context for the conflict
- Evaluate/recommend/reconcile the appropriate conflict resolution solution
Lead a team
- Set a clear vision and mission
- Support diversity and inclusion (e.g., behavior types, thought process)
- Value servant leadership (e.g., relate the tenets of servant leadership to the team)
- Determine an appropriate leadership style (e.g., directive, collaborative)
- Inspire, motivate, and influence team members/stakeholders (e.g., team contract, social contract, reward system)
- Analyze team members and stakeholders’ influence
- Distinguish various options to lead various team members and stakeholders
Support team performance
- Appraise team member performance against key performance indicators
- Support and recognize team member growth and development
- Determine appropriate feedback approach
- Determine an appropriate leadership style (e.g., directive, collaborative)
- Verify performance improvements
Empower team members and stakeholders
- Organize around team strengths
- Support team task accountability
- Evaluate demonstration of task accountability
- Determine and bestow level(s) of decision-making authority
Ensure team members/stakeholders are adequately trained
- Determine required competencies and elements of training
- Determine training options based on training needs
- Allocate resources for training
- Measure training outcomes
Build a team
- Appraise stakeholder skills
- Deduce project resource requirements
- Continuously assess and refresh team skills to meet project needs
- Maintain team and knowledge transfer
Address and remove impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
- Determine critical impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
- Prioritize critical impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
- Use network to implement solutions to remove impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
- Re-assess continually to ensure impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team are being addressed
Negotiate project agreements
- Analyze the bounds of the negotiations for agreement
- Assess priorities and determine ultimate objective(s)
- Verify objective(s) of the project agreement is met
- Participate in agreement negotiations
- Determine a negotiation strategy
Collaborate with stakeholders
- Evaluate engagement needs for stakeholders
- Optimize alignment between stakeholder needs, expectations, and projectobjectives
- Build trust and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives
Build shared understanding
- Break down situation to identify the root cause of a misunderstanding
- Survey all necessary parties to reach consensus
- Support outcome of parties’ agreement
- Investigate potential misunderstandings
Engage and support virtual teams
- Examine virtual team member needs (e.g., environment, geography, culture,global, etc.)
- Investigate alternatives (e.g., communication tools, colocation) for virtual teammember engagement
- Implement options for virtual team member engagement
- Continually evaluate effectiveness of virtual team member engagement
Define team ground rules
- Communicate organizational principles with team and external stakeholders
- Establish an environment that fosters adherence to the ground rules
- Manage and rectify ground rule violations
Mentor relevant stakeholders
- Allocate the time to mentoring
- Recognize and act on mentoring opportunities
Promote team performance through the application of emotional intelligence
- Assess behavior through the use of personality indicators
- Analyze personality indicators and adjust to the emotional needs of key project stakeholders
Domain II Process—50%
Execute project with the urgency required to deliver business value
- Assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally
- Examine the business value throughout the project
- Support the team to subdivide project tasks as necessary to find the minimum viable product
Manage communications
- Determine risk management options
- Iteratively assess and prioritize risks
Assess and manage risks
- Appraise team member performance against key performance indicators
- Support and recognize team member growth and development
- Determine appropriate feedback approach
- Determine an appropriate leadership style (e.g., directive, collaborative)
- Verify performance improvements
Engage stakeholders
- Analyze stakeholders (e.g., power interest grid, influence, impact)
- Categorize stakeholders
- Engage stakeholders by category
- Develop, execute, and validate a strategy for stakeholder engagement
Plan and manage budget and resources
- Estimate budgetary needs based on the scope of the project and lessons learned from past projects
- Anticipate future budget challenges
- Monitor budget variations and work with governance process to adjust as necessary
- Plan and manage resources
Plan and manage schedule
- Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points)
- Utilize benchmarks and historical data
- Prepare schedule based on methodology
- Measure ongoing progress based on methodology
- Modify schedule, as needed, based on methodology
- Coordinate with other projects and other operations
Plan and manage quality of products/deliverables
- Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
- Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
- Continually survey project deliverable quality
Plan and manage scope
- Determine and prioritize requirements
- Break down scope (e.g., WBS, backlog)
- Monitor and validate scope
Integrate project planning activities
- Consolidate the project/phase plans
- Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and continued business value
- Analyze the data collected
- Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions
- Determine critical information requirements
Manage project changes
- Anticipate and embrace the need for change (e.g., follow change management practices)
- Determine strategy to handle change
- Execute change management strategy according to the methodology
- Determine a change response to move the project forward
Plan and manage procurement
- Define resource requirements and needs
- Communicate resource requirements
- Manage suppliers/contracts
- Plan and manage procurement strategy
- Develop a delivery solution
Manage project artifacts
- Determine the requirements (what, when, where, who, etc.) for managing the project artifacts
- Validate that the project information is kept up to date (i.e., version control) and accessible to all stakeholders
- Continually assess the effectiveness of the management of the project artifacts
Determine appropriate project methodology/methods and practices
- Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude
- Recommend project execution strategy (e.g., contracting, finance)
- Recommend a project methodology/approach (i.e., predictive, agile, hybrid)
- Use iterative, incremental practices throughout the project life cycle (e.g., lessons learned, stakeholder engagement, risk)
Establish project governance structure
- Determine appropriate governance for a project (e.g., replicate organizational governance)
- Define escalation paths and thresholds
Manage project issues
- Recognize when a risk becomes an issue
- Attack the issue with the optimal action to achieve project success
- Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on the approach to resolve the issues
Ensure knowledge transfer for project continuity
- Discuss project responsibilities within team
- Outline expectations for working environment
- Confirm approach for knowledge transfers
Plan and manage project/phase closure or transitions
- Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase
- Validate readiness for transition (e.g., to operations team or next phase)
- Conclude activities to close out project or phase (e.g., final lessons learned, retrospective, procurement, financials, resources)
Domain III Business Environment—8%
Plan and manage project compliance
- Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and safety, regulatory compliance)
- Classify compliance categories
- Determine potential threats to compliance
- Use methods to support compliance
- Analyze the consequences of noncompliance
- Determine necessary approach and action to address compliance needs (e.g.,risk, legal)
- Measure the extent to which the project is in compliance
Evaluate and deliver project benefits and value
- Investigate that benefits are identified
- Document agreement on ownership for ongoing benefit realization
- Verify measurement system is in place to track benefits
- Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value
- Appraise stakeholders of value gain progress
Evaluate and address external business environment changes for impact on scope
- Survey changes to external business environment (e.g., regulations, technology, geopolitical, market)
- Assess and prioritize impact on project scope/backlog based on changes in external business environment
- Recommend options for scope/backlog changes (e.g., schedule, cost changes)
- Continually review external business environment for impacts on project scope/backlog
Support organizational change
- Assess organizational culture
- Evaluate impact of organizational change to project and determine requiredactions
- Evaluate impact of the project to the organization and determine required actions
Instructor:
Naveen Kumar
Program highlights:
- Instructor-led programs
- Real life case studies
- Assignments
- Certification
Book your slot:
December 09-10, 2023
Book your slot
December 09-10, 2023
February 17-18, 2024
