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Project Management Professionals
Course Duration
5 Days
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PMI
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Comprehensive Guide to Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
The PMI Project Management Professionals course covers key skills, tools, and techniques to successfully manage projects. It covers project integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management. Students will learn best practises and strategies for project success, as well as how to use tools such as agile methodologies and project management software.
Upon completion, students be better equipped to manage complex projects and deliver results that meet stakeholder expectations. They will also have the knowledge and skills required to earn the highly respected PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Who Should Get Certified
This course is suitable for:
Project Managers
Project Coordinators and Assistants
Team Leaders
Consultants
Course Objectives
- Understand and apply the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) Guide and the best practices and standards established by PMI
- Understand and apply the five project management process groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring, and Controlling, and Closing
- Understand and apply the following project management knowledge areas: Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Resource, Communication, Risk, and Procurement Management
- Recognize and apply the tools and techniques used in each process group and knowledge area
- Develop the knowledge and skills required to manage projects effectively and efficiently
- Recognize and put into practice the best practices for leading and motivating a project team
Course Curriculum
Getting to know the participants
Introduction to PMI®
PMP® Certification – advantages
- PMP® Certification – process and fees related information
- PMP ® Application procedures – instructions on how to fill in the form
- PMP® examination – information on the split of questions, question pattern
- PMP® examination – tips on how to prepare and take the examination (this theme will be reiterated throughout the course)
- PMP® – fulfilling the CCR requirements
- Familiarization with the course outline
- Familiarization with the protocols and timings
- Expectation setting and clarifications
- Introductory quiz – to assess the current level of familiarization of the participants with PMBOK® concepts and assess the gaps
- What are projects?
- Projects vs. operations
- Project management and the role of project manager
- The concept of progressive elaboration
- PMBOK® guide structure
- Interrelationship of project management with general management concepts
- The concept of program management and portfolio management
- The concept of Project Management Office (PMO)
- Multiple modes of operations of PMO
- Quiz – introduction to project management
The concept of project lifecycle and its characteristics
Phases defining the project lifecycle
- Stakeholders in a project
- Varying types of project organizational structures – functional, matrix and projectized – their advantages and disadvantages
- Quiz – project management context
Project management vs. product-oriented processes
Description of five process groups in the project lifecycle and their interactions
Characteristics and components of process groups
- Process interactions / customization of processes
- Mapping of project management processes across the process groups and knowledge areas
- Quiz – project management processes
- The role of integration management in project execution
- Description of multiple ways in a project can arise
- SOW – its characteristics
- Description of enterprise environmental factors and organizational assets which can impact a project
- Business case and continued business justification
- Project charter – its characteristics
- Project strategic alignment
- Description of various project selection methods – like mathematical models and financial criteria like ROI, NPV, IRRetc.
- Benefit realization
- Learning from lessons
- Project management plan development
- Contents of the project management plan
- PMIS – its role in effective project management
- Directing and managing project work
- The role of configuration management system in a project environment
- Monitoring and controlling project work
- Performing integrated change control
- How to manage changes in a project?
- Change control management activities involved in a project
- Role of change control board in project environment
- Closing a project (or a phase)
- Multiple types of closures (administrative closure and financial closure)
- Update on process to organizational process assets
- Quiz – project integration management
Project scope vs. Product scope and their interrelationships
- Importance of scope management plan in the project
- Collect requirements process
- Define scope process
- Project scope statement – how to prepare and update?
- WBS – its key role in project management
- Creating and managing WBS
- Interactions of WBS with other breakdown structures used in project environment.
- Validate scope process
- Scope validation vs. Quality control
- Control scope process
- Quiz –project scope management
- Importance of time management in a project environment
- Define activities process
- Sequence activities process
- Multiple types of dependencies across activities
- Precedence diagramming method
- Estimating activity resource process
- Estimating activity duration process
- Various duration estimating procedures – top-down, bottom-up, analogous, parametric etc.
- The concept of contingency in time management
- Develop schedule process
- The importance of calendars in the scheduling process
- The importance of critical path in project management
- Critical path computation and explanation of its characteristics
- Application of techniques like fast tracking, crashing, resource optimization, PERT etc. in schedule development
- Use of modelling techniques in scheduling
- Critical chain applications
- Schedule l data-descriptions
- Control schedule process revision of schedules
- Quiz – project time management
The importance of cost management in projects
Project lifecycle costing vs. product lifecycle costing
Cost management plan and its use in cost control
Estimating costs process
Cost management plan and its use in cost control
Analogous, parametric, and bottom – up methods of cost estimating
Multiple types of cost estimates – order of magnitude and definitive estimates.
Determine budget process
Cost baseline and its management
- Control costs process
- Planning quality management process
- Cost and schedule performance indices and their use in forecasting
- Multiple methods of depreciation
- Quiz – project cost management
Project quality vs. product quality
Concepts of quality management
Project management vis-à-vis quality management
Current themes in quality management
Planning quality management process
- Project quality management plan and process improvement plan
- Perform quality assurance process
- The role of quality audits in quality management
- Perform quality control process
- Seven basic tools of quality control – including control charts, cause and effect diagrams, pareto diagrams, stratification, histograms, scatter diagrams etc.
- Applicability of normal distribution in SQC process capability definitions pioneers of quality – Deming, Juran, Crosby etc. and their key contributions
- Cost of quality / cost of non-quality concepts
- Quiz – project quality management
Developing human resource management plan process
Organizational planning and structures
Description of OBS and RBS
RAM and RACI Charts
How staffing management plan enables HR management?
Acquire project team process
Managing virtual teams in a project environment
Building effective project teams
Develop project team process
Importance of trainings in project team development
Delegation for effective management
Multiple stages of team development
Manage project team process
Performance appraisals of team members
Types of power – de-facto and personal powers
Project managers’ leadership styles
Conflict handling –multiple models
How to motivate team members?
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Fredrick Herzberg’s two-factor theory
Theory X, Y and Z descriptions and their application to project management
Expectancy theories
Quiz – project human resource management
Planning communications management process
Project communications structures
- Communications requirements analysis in the project environment
- Communication channels in a project
- Communications management plan
- Sender receiver models in the project environment
- Manage communications process
- Communication methods – push, pull and interactive
- Control communication process
- Reporting performance
- Obstacles in cross-cultural communication
- Quiz – project communications management
Risk management cycle in a project environment
Plan risk management process
Importance of risk management plan in the risk management lifecycle
Types of risks which can impact a project
Risk register preparation and updating
Perform qualitative risk analysis process
Probability impact matrix and its use in risk management
Perform quantitative risk analysis process
Use of varying simulation techniques
Application of decision tree analysis and sensitivity analysis tools to risk management
Plan risk responses process
Strategies of risk response for positive and negative risks
Different types of risks – primary risks, secondary risks, residual risks etc.
Risk register updating
Monitor and control risks process
Use of risk audits, reserve analysis and variance and trend analysis in monitoring and control of risks
Corrective and preventive actions in risk management process Identify risks process
- Risk identification facilitators – brainstorming, Delphi techniques, SWOT analysis, documentation review, checklist analysis etc.
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Why procurement is important for projects?
- Procurement management lifecycle
- Project manager’s procurement management responsibilities
- Plan procurement management process
- Centralized vs. decentralized procurement organizations
- Make or buy analysis
- Major types of contracts – including FFP, cost plus, T&M and their variations
- Risks associated with various types of contracts
- Importance of procurement management plan
- Creating procurement SOW and procurement documents
- Conduct procurements process
- Various types of procurement documents – including RFP, RFQ, IB etc.
- Source selection criteria to analyze vendor responses
- Source selection process
- Application of screening and weighting systems in procurements selection
- Use of independent estimates
- Contract negotiations process
- Multiple negotiation tactics
- Contracts – their legal implications
- Control procurements process
- Contract change – how to manage them more effectively
- Dispute management processes
- Contract documentation file
- Discharge of contracts
- Close procurements process
- Quiz – project procurement management
Identify stakeholder process
Conducting stakeholder analysis – power-interest grid
Creating the stakeholder register
- Plan stakeholder management process
- Stakeholder engagement levels
- Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
- Manage stakeholder engagement process
- Control stakeholder engagement process
Professional responsibility
Professional responsibilities of the project manager
Professional responsibilities towards – self-profession-stakeholders-society
- Quiz: professional responsibilities [with discussions]
- PMP® MOCK test (100 questions)
Benefits
Upskilling your employees in this certification offers several advantages, including:
Enhancing the company’s project management processes through the implementation of best practises and standards
Improving employee communication and collaboration with project stakeholders, resulting in improved project alignment and buy-in
Strengthening the company’s leadership capability and team performance for better project outcomes
Adds credibility to your skills, increase your chances of getting hired and help you achieve career growth
Increasing the credibility and recognition of the company in the industry by demonstrating a commitment to professional development and knowledge of industry standards
Prerequisites
- Have a secondary degree (high school diploma, associate degree, or the global equivalent) and at least 5 years of project management experience with 7,500 hours leading and directing projects and 35 hours of project management education, or
- Have a 4-year degree and 3 years of project management experience with 4,500 hours leading and directing projects and 35 hours of project management education, or
- Have experience in leading and managing projects
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HRD Corp provides training and upskilling opportunities for Malaysian employees who are:
- Malaysian citizens or permanent residents
- Employed in a company that contributes to HRD Corp (employer with 10 or more Malaysian employees, or employers from specific sectors)
- Registered with the HRD Corp portal and have an activated account
- Meet the specific requirements for the training program, such as qualifications, skills, or job-specific criteria
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