PMI Authorized Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam Prep

Course materials:

• Presentation slides and other content from PMI (including Mastery Questions and Answers)
• Flash cards of PMP terms
• Agile Introduction video
• Test bank questions for each of the six lessons, plus agile concepts (presented 20 at a time to encourage continual review more frequently).
• Greta’s Guide to ACE the PMP Book (available March 1 on Amazon in both hard copy and ebook versions)

Additional content for those preparing for the PMP exam (including having their application approved by PMI)

• Test simulator with 2000+ test questions provided by PMI (and written by the same individuals who have written actual exam questions – but not accepted for the exam, mostly because duplicated questions or those very close in content). Random questions presented 60 at a time to replicate the exam environment.

Prerequisites

Attendees should understand and meet the experience requirements for the PMP® certification application.

Outline

Lesson 1: Business Environment

• Define “project” and how it relates to the larger discussion of “project management.”
• Discuss the different types of organizational structures and how they relate to your project’s management.
• Discuss the principles of project management.
• Discuss the principles of agile and how they relate to your project’s management.
• Discuss strategic alignment and its elements.
• Explain the impact of business factors on strategic alignment.
• Determine how projects align with business strategy.
• Identify the types of business value.
• Describe change management theory and its relation to organizational change.
• Define and discuss project governance.
• Explain project compliance and its importance

Lesson 2: Start the Project

• Define and discuss stakeholders and the most effective ways to communicate with them.
• Explain the best ways to form a team.
• Describe how to build the most effective understanding of a project and how doing so relates to executing a project successfully.
• Explain the different types of hybrid and adaptive life cycles.

Lesson 3: Plan the Project

• Explain the importance of a project management plan.
• Discuss the content of subsidiary project plans.
• Provide an overview of scope planning in both predictive projects and adaptive environments.
• Provide an overview of schedule planning in both predictive projects and adaptive environments.
• Determine the budgeting structure for a project
• Identify strategies for dealing with risks and risk planning.
• Define quality and how it relates to the outcomes and deliveries for a project.
• Discuss what resources are and how they are involved in planning for the procurement of external resources for a project.
• Discuss the importance of integrating project management plans into your change management process.

Lesson 4: Lead the Project Team

• Discuss the guidelines for developing leadership competencies and skills.
• Address leadership styles, and the components of leading a successful team, either in person or virtually.
• Describe artifacts and the strategies for their use.
• Identify the characteristics and core functions of empowered teams.
• Explain strategies and forms of communication for collaborating in a project team environment.
• Learn the value of training, coaching, and mentoring for a team.
• Explain the importance of conflict management.
• Discuss the causes and levels of conflict and their outcomes.

Lesson 5: Support Project Team Performance

• Explain the various methods for implementing improvement.
• Explain the various methods for performance measurement.
• Compare these methods with a focus on communication and accountability.
• Identify the methods for implementing a project and the issues and impediments that arise during a project.
• Describe the methods for implementing changes during a project.

Lesson 6: Close the Project/Phase

• Define the reasons and activities related to the closure of a phase or a project.
• Explain the benefits gained from a project or phase, and how they are managed, sustained, etc.
• Examine the reasons for knowledge transfers and how they relate to the closure of a phase or project.