Overview:
If you are taking this course, you probably have some professional exposure to the duties of a project manager, or you may be considering embarking on a career in professional project management. Your ability as a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management-both on the job and through professional certification-is becoming the standard to compete in today’s fast-paced and highly technical workplace. In this course, you will apply the generally recognized practices of project management acknowledged by the Project Management Institute (PMI)® to successfully manage projects.
Project managers who have proven skills and experience can find exciting, high-visibility opportunities in a wide range of fields. This course is specifically designed to provide you with the proven, practical body of project management knowledge and skills that you need to demonstrate project management mastery on the job. Additionally, this course can be a significant part of your preparation for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification Exam. The skills and knowledge you gain in this course will help you avoid making costly mistakes and increase your competitive edge in the project management profession.
Target Trainee:
This course is designed for individuals who have on-the-job project management experience (whether or not project manager is their formal job role), who are not certified project management professionals, and who might or might not have received formal project management training. The course is appropriate for these persons if they wish to develop professionally, increase their project management skills, apply a formalized and standards-based approach to project management, and seek career advancement by moving into a formal project manager job role.
Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to apply the generally recognized practices of project management acknowledged by the Project Management Institute (PMI) to successfully manage projects. They will:
- Get started with project management fundamentals.
- Identify organizational influences and project life cycle.
- Work with project management processes.
- Initiate a project.
- Plan a project.
- Plan for project time management.
- Plan project budget, quality, and communications.
- Plan for risk, procurements, and stakeholder management.
- Execute a project.
- Manage project work, scope, schedules, and cost.
- Control a project.
- Close a project.
Course Outline :
- Introduction to PMI, PMP Exam
- Overview of Project Management
- Creating a project charter
- Scope management plan
- Developing project schedule
- Group discussions & exercises of Mock PMP exam questions
- Create cost baseline costs
- Create quality management plan
- Create human resources management plan
- Create communication management plan
- Group discussions & exercises of Mock PMP Exam questions
- Create risk management plan
- Create procurement management plan
- Executing the project
- Monitoring and controlling the project
- Group discussions & exercises for practicing PMP exam questions and answers
- Monitoring and controlling the project
- Bringing the Project to a close
- Group discussions & exercises
- Effective Use of Project Planning Tools and Templates
- How to become a PMI Certified PMP
- PMP Application and Approval / Exam Booking & Taking the PMP Exam – Process Walkthru
- Professional Ethics & Responsibilities
- Mock PMP Certification Exam