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Project Management Professional

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About Course

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® is the gold standard of project management certification. Recognized and demanded by organizations worldwide, the PMP® validates your competence to perform in the role of a project manager, leading and directing projects and teams. Learn how project management drives success. Our expert-driven approach to project management training will prepare you to execute with excellence. The curriculum must cover all these knowledge areas in order to prepare you for the PMP examination.

 

PMBOK, PMP® and the PMI Registered Education Provider logo are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

 

 

 

What Will You Learn?

  • Establish norms and ground rules for effective team communication.
  • Generate project requirements and the operational success criteria to be achieved by the project’s outcome.
  • Create a project Work Breakdown Structure with associated Specifications.
  • Design a project schedule with activities, durations and interdependencies.
  • Delineate, assign and track project resources and associated costs.
  • Identify and quantify project risks and develop resolution strategies.
  • Understand basic contract types and the project ramifications.
  • Identify, capture, measure and analyze important project metrics.
  • Create a high-performing project team focused on customer satisfaction.
  • Develop and document a comprehensive and integrated project plan.

Course Content

Introduction to PMP and Project Management Terminologies
The PMP syllabus must start with securing the basics of Project Management, introducing candidates to the topics like what is a project, project life cycle, the relationship between portfolio management, program management, operations management, etc., and the PMBOK®Guide - Sixth Edition.

Organizational Influences and the Project Life Cycle
Candidates will then learn of the influence that an organization has on Project Management, and various other key topics like the project stakeholders, project governance, the creation of and the importance of a project team, and the project life cycle.

Project Management Processes
Before moving to the 49 processes, the PMP certification syllabus will introduce candidates to the 10 Project Management knowledge areas and 5 process groups at an overview level.

Project Integration Management
This is the first knowledge area in the PMP certification course content, that explains the coordination of the different elements within a project. These elements include project activities, resources, schedules, stakeholders, etc.

Project Scope Management
The project’s scope defines what exactly needs to be executed in the project, and this section of the PMP certification syllabus teaches the various processes (like requirements collection, WBS creation, scope control, involved in ensuring the result is maintained within the defined scope.

Project Schedule Management
Candidates are taught the various processes involved in scheduling the various activities, deliverables, and milestones within a project, defining the relationship between these elements, and estimating resource allocation and task durations.

Project Cost Management
The topic covers different processes involved in estimating, allocating, and controlling the project budget and individual activity and resource costs.

Project Quality Management
This knowledge area covers the different processes involved in defining the quality standards and methods to test the quality and ensure the standards are met. You will learn to plan quality management, perform quality assurance, and control end quality.

Project Resource Management
You will learn the different processes involved in planning resource management, estimating resource requirements based on activities, and acquiring resources. This includes steps to build, develop, manage, and control resource teams.

Project Communications Management
This section of the PMP training course covers the various modes of communication that can be set up within a project for smooth operations.

Project Risk Management
The topic covers the various processes involved in identifying risks, performing a risk analysis, planning risk responses, implementing these responses, and monitoring risks.

Project Procurement Management
This knowledge area involves processes related to the procurement of various resource elements: workers, materials, and equipment.

Project Stakeholder management
The last section of the course covers the final knowledge area and process related to the management of individuals who are impacted by the project, namely the stakeholders.