Course Description: TN2021-PMP11.2 Contact Hours: 35
Course Description: This course has been designed as a overview for participants interested in taking the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam 2021 edition. This is not an introduction to project management or practical application course. The content in this course covers the material that appears on the exam and provides a large number of practice questions to prepare participants to succeed.
Target Audience: Candidates who are preparing for PMI’s PMP® certification exam. It is recommended a candidate have already achieved their 4,500 or 7,500 required hours of experience prior to taking the course. Additionally, it is strongly recommended student have completed a PMI®-based project management practical application course such as the Training Ninja’s Introduction to Project Management at least 30-days prior to this course and have read the current edition of the PMBOK® Guide.
Course Objectives:
- Learn key terminology used in the field of project management.
- Learn the tools, techniques, and lifecycles used by a wide range of organizations.
- Learn how organizations most commonly plan projects.
- Learn the analytical processes used in project management.
- Learn how projects are tracked and performance is monitored.
- Learn how project managers evaluate solutions and processes to meet organizational needs.
- Learn the other skills needed to pass the PMI-PMP exam.
- Learn the most common mistakes on the PMP Exam.
- Learn about your professional responsibility.
- Build your own custom study plan.
Key Course Topics:
- Course Introduction
- Why become a PMP®
- The application process
- The exam costs & required score
- Domains, tasks & enablers
- The exam breakdown
- Eligible resources
- Projects, programs & portfolios
- The PMBOK® Guide relationship
- Governance
- Ethics, Ground Rules, & Charters
- The PMI® Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct
- Benefits of ethical management
- The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance
- Mandatory vs. aspirational standards
- PMI’s 4 core values
- Team charters
- Ground rules
- A product vision
- Service level agreements & measures
- Building Teams, Stakeholders & Organization Structures
- What is resource management?
- Appraisals
- How are teams built
- The PMO, traditional & agile
- Organization structures
- Stakeholder basics
- Who is a stakeholder
- Stakeholder identification
- The stakeholder register
- RAM & RACI Diagrams
- Stakeholder classification
- Stakeholder engagement Assessment
- The Onion Diagram
- The Salience Model
- Stakeholders’ direction of influence
- Information radiators
- Team Performance, Facilitation, & Meetings
- Terms tied to performance measurement
- Prioritization models
- The Paired Comparison Model
- Kano Analysis
- Conflict & conflict resolution
- Key conflict terms
- Sources of conflict
- Conflict sensitivity
- Conflict analysis
- The Harvard Approach
- Conflict Transformation
- Human Needs Theory
- Conflict analysis tools
- The Conflict Wheel
- The Conflict Tree
- Conflict Mapping
- Conflict Profiles
- Glasl’s Escalation Model
- Inmedio’s Conflict Perspective Analysis
- Needs-Fear Mapping
- Stage-Based Conflict Models
- Conflict resolution
- Speed B. Leas Conflict Model
- Cultural awareness
- Core facilitation skills
- Meeting management
- Brainstorming tools
- Value stream mapping & PCE
- High performing teams
- Problem Solving
- The basic problem solving process overview
- Data gathering
- Focus groups
- Walkthroughs
- The nominal group technique
- Other data gathering tools
- Generating insights
- Brainstorming
- 5 Whys
- Cause & Effect Diagrams
- Real Options
- Deciding what to do
- Short Subjects
- SMART Goals
- The Retrospective Planning Game
- Circle of Questions
- Helped, Hindered, Hypothesize
- Problem solving
- The GROW Model
- How To Solve It
- Rapid Problem Resolution (RPR)
- Failure Modes & Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Other tools
- Decision Making & Training
- Types of decision making
- Group decision making
- Voting
- Mind or Idea Maps
- SWOT Analysis
- Focus on/ focus off exercises
- Training the team
- Key training questions
- Virtual teams
- T-Shaped skills
- Objectives, The Business Case, & Scope
- Project objectives & business value
- The business case & project kickoff
- Project vs. product scope
- Scope management terms
- The steps in scope management
- How scope is measured
- Assessing value
- Payback period / RIO / BCI / NPV
- Weighted rankings
- Multi-criteria decision analysis
- Benefits management plan
- Situation statement
- Root cause analysis
- Net promoter score
- Other definition tools
- Requirements
- Types of requirements
- The requirements management plan
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Scenario analysis
- A / B testing
- PEST & PESTLE
- Storyboarding
- Interrelationship diagrams
- Affinity Diagrams
- Context Diagrams
- Progressive elaboration
- Rolling wave planning
- Agile Requirements
- Agile prioritization
- The product backlog
- Agile games
- Remember the future
- Prune the product tree
- Bang for the buck
- Speedboat
- Buy a feature
- Wireframes
- Personas
- User stories
- The 3 Cs
- INVESTing in your stories
- Given, When, Then
- The Definition of Done
- The Story Pyramid
- The Minimum Business Increment
- Life Cycles
- Types of lifecycles
- When to use the different lifecycles
- Process tailoring
- The waterfall or linear methodology
- Iterative development
- Prototyping
- Configuration and version control
- Agile Life Cycles
- Timeboxing
- Work in Progress
- Scrum
- The sprint planning meeting
- The daily scrum
- The team board
- The key questions
- The sprint review
- Burndown charts
- Burnup charts
- Cumulative flow diagrams
- Sprint retrospectives
- Kanban
- Extreme Programming
- Other key Agile terms
- Scaling Techniques for Agile
- The Scaled Agile Framework
- Nexus
- Large Scale Scrum
- Disciplined Agile
- Scrum of Scrums
- Scheduling
- Scheduling terms
- Components of the schedule management plan
- Estimates
- Types of estimating
- Monte Carlo Analysis
- PERT
- Distributions
- Agile estimation
- Terms
- Story points
- Affinity estimating
- Wideband Delphi
- Planning Poker
- Precedence Diagramming
- Dependencies
- Leads & lags
- The Critical Path Method
- Resource optimization
- Leveling and smoothing
- Crashing & fast-tracking
- Gantt Charts & Milestone Charts
- Product Roadmaps
- Goal-Oriented Product Roadmaps
- GO Product Roadmaps
- Now-Next-Later Roadmaps
- Story Maps
- Critical Chain Project Management
- Cost Management
- Cost management terms
- Agile cost estimation
- Funding limit reconciliation
- Reserves
- Accounting terms
- Expected monetary value
- Decision tree analysis
- Triangle management
- The Cumulative Cost Curve
- Quality Management
- Key quality terms
- PDCA
- Thought leaders in quality
- The Cost of Quality
- Variance analysis
- Project compliance / compliance analysis
- Escalation
- Audits
- Logical Data Models
- Matrix Diagrams
- Test Driven Development
- Refactoring
- Root Cause analysis
- The 7 Basic Quality Tools
- Run Charts
- Design for X
- Benchmarking
- Design of Experiments
- Statistical sampling terms
- Integration Management
- Integration components
- Baselines, logs & registers
- Change management
- Organizational change management models
- The compliance management plan
- Closeout guidelines
- Issues
- Procurement
- Procurement PMI-isms
- Procurement terms
- Source selection analysis
- The procurement management plan
- Common bid documents
- The procurement statement of work
- Other common procurement documents
- Contracts
- Agile contracts
- Negotiating tactics
- Source selection criteria
- Payments & negotiated settlements
- Risk Management
- The definition of risk
- Types of risk
- Risk terms
- The risk management plan
- Impact & probability
- The risk register
- Qualitative & quantitative risk analysis
- Influence diagrams
- Risk response strategies & implementation
- Communications Management
- Communication terms
- Active listening
- Negotiations
- General communications guidelines
- Common areas of negotiation / communication
- Communication dimensions
- The basic communication model
- Didactic communication
- Communication styles
- The communication management plan
- Communication techniques & considerations
- Information management
- Project Leadership
- Vision & mission
- Management vs. leadership
- Servant leadership
- Adaptive leadership
- The purpose alignment model
- The short horizon model
- The OODA Model
- The Satir Change Model
- The Tuckman Model
- Leadership styles
- Theories of management styles
- The leadership contingency model
- The situational leadership theory
- Emotional intelligence
- The Ability-based EI model
- MSCEIT
- Goleman’s Mixed EI Model
- Empowering teams
- Leading high performing teams
- SMART Goals
- Coaching & mentoring
- Facilitation
- Personality profile assessments
- Common Theories of Motivation
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- McGregor’s Theory of X & Y
- Hertzberg’s Theory
- Ochi’s Theory Z