Course Overview

PM Ninja – 4 is an intensive and practical power-house of a training on Project Management as per the best practices mentioned in the Guide to the Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) 6^th Edition from PMI, USA leading to the coveted PMP® Certification. Despite the most sought after certification in the world, the course is only as good as how it is taught and who teaches you. At PM-Pulse we have mastered the art of linking everything from a Practical standpoint and make people highly effective in their real world.  Passing the exams is only a side effect. This course is a very powerful arsenal in your journey in your Project Management Career. This course includes every thing that you would need to Understand Project Management, Prepare for the Exams and Successfully Clear the Exams. This course is conducted replete with exercises and games to help retention and also conducted in a very casual and humorous nature to dispel the stress that my result from the intensity of the subject. 

 

Who should attend?

 Any one who is connected to or worked in or worked for any kind of Projects from any domain or industry in any role for 3 yrs or so and wants to further their career. (In case you do not hold a graduate degree, you need to have 5 yrs of such experience instead of 3yrs.)

 

Performance Focus

• Complete understanding of all the 10 Knolwedge Areas and the 49 Processes
• Practical empowerment in Project Management
• Clear understanding of PMBOK Guide 6^th Edition
• Generate the ability, agility and confidence to attempt and clear PMP® exams
• Help individuals and organization to become more competitive in the workplace as well as in the job market
• Help you become the change agent and the one that everyone looks up to
• Training by professionals who have actually worked on various kinds of projects and in various domains. Practice over theory approach.
• Arm you with the ability to create template, processes and performance indicators for your organization
• Do’s and Don’ts of exams
• Minimum time and preparation to sit for the exams
• Make you feel and think like a PMP® even before you take the exams.

 

What You Will Learn

• The 10 Knowledge Areas of Project Management
• The 5 Process Groups of Project Management
• Deep understanding of each and every of the 49 processes
• Framework of Project Management
• Every term and definition of PMBOK Guide 6^th Edition
• How to prepare and appear for the exams
• How to apply Project Management in the Real world Projects
• Confidence in Project Management 

 

Training Content and Basic Outline of the course

Project Management Framework

• Definitions
• Project management integrated system
• Project life cycles and progressive elaboration
• Project stakeholders
• PMBOK®  process groups
• PMBOK® knowledge areas
• PMBOK® process model

 

Project Integration Management

• Defining project success
• Competing demands
• Project sponsor role
• Integrated planning
• Project selection methods
• Develop project charter
• Project Management Information System (PMIS)
• Develop project management plan
• Key project planning deliverables
• Direct and manage project work
• Manage Project Knowledge
• Monitor and control project work
• Perform integrated change control
• Change control system
• Configuration management
• Close project or phase

 

Project Scope Management

• Plan scope management
• Collect requirements
• Define scope
• Create work breakdown structure
• Decomposition
• Hierarchical view – WBS
• Work package relationship to cost accounts
• Validate scope
• Control scope
• Developing a change control process
• Managing scope creep

 

Project Schedule Management

• Plan Schedule management
• Define activities
• Sequence activities
• Precedence relationships
• Estimate activity durations
• Estimating approaches
• Develop schedule
• Techniques: Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Critical chain technique
• Resource optimization
• Schedule compression techniques
• Reserve

 

Project Cost Management

• Plan cost management
• Estimate costs
• Estimating checklist
• Standard project estimating
• Determine budget
• Cost baseline – defined
• Control costs
• Earned Value Management (EVM)

 

Project Quality Management

• Definition of quality
• Quality terms
• Project quality management
• Plan quality
• Important quality management tools
• Manage Quality
• Control quality
• Quality management and control tools

 

Project Resource Management

• Organizational influences
• Characteristics of organizational structures
• Plan resource management
• Staffing management plan
• Estimate activity resources
• Acquire project team
• Develop project team
• Manage project team
• Stages of team building
• Team leadership
• Principles of leadership
• Control Resources

 

Project Communication Management           

• Plan communications management
• Communication requirements analysis
• Manage communications
• Typical communication styles
• Communication dimensions
• Monitor communications

 

Project Risk Management

• Plan risk management
• Identify project risks (both positive and negative)
• Perform qualitative risk analysis
• Perform quantitative risk analysis
• Plan risk responses (both positive and negative)
• Implement risk responses
• Monitor and control risk

 

Project Procurement Management

• Plan procurements
• Types of contracts and risks
• Calculating contract cost
• Conduct procurements
• Types of procurement documents
• Evaluation criteria
• Negotiation tactics
• Elements of a contract
• Common forms of contracts
• Control procurements

Project Stakeholder Management

• Identify stakeholders
• Stakeholder register
• Stakeholder assessment
• Stakeholder engagement plan
• Engage stakeholders
• Issue logs
• Manage stakeholder engagement
• Monitor stakeholder engagement

 

PMP® Exam Review

• The PMP® certification process
• PMP® eligibility requirements
• The PMP® credential examination
• Getting prepared