Module 1: Module 1: Introduction 

• 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 

Module 2: Introduction to Project Management 

• 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 

Module 3: Project Management Context 

• 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 

Module 4: Project Management Processes 

• 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 

Module 5: Project Integration Management 

• 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 

Module 6: Project Scope 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 

Module 7: Project Time 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 

Module 8: Project Cost 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 

Module 9: Project Quality 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 

Module 10: Project Human Resource 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 

Module 11: Project Communications 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 

Module 12: Project Risk 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 
• Identify risks process 
• Risk identification   facilitators – brainstorming, Delphi techniques, SWOT analysis, documentation review, checklist analysis etc. 
• 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 

Module 13: Project Procurement Management 

• 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 

Module 14: Project Stakeholder 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 

Module 15: Professional Responsibility 

• 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) 
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