- About PMI® history
- PMP® Certification program & details
- Eligibility criteria & the certification process (Application &Audit process, Exam fees)
- Exam structure (Topics covered, Types of PMP® questions)
- Training approach
- What is PMBOK® and its purpose
- Project Vs operations (PMBOK® definitions)
- Triple constraints
- Value of Project Management
- Project Manager’s role & areas of expertise of Project Manager and Project Team
- Project Life cycle, Product Life cycle & Project Management Life cycle
- Key Stakeholders
- Organization structures
- 10 Knowledge Areas
- 5 Project management Process Groups
- Interrelationship between Knowledge areas & Process Group
- Project charter
- Project Preliminary Scope statement
- Project Selection Methods (PV, NPV, IRR, Payback period, BCR, Opportunity cost)
- Project Management plan
- Manage and control Project execution
- Integrated Change control (CCB)
- Project Closure
- Project scope planning (Scope Management Plan)
- Scope Definition (Scope Statement)
- Work Breakdown structure (WBS & WBS dictionary)
- Scope Verification process
- Scope Control
- Activity Definition (Activity List)
- Activity Sequencing
- Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
- Float (slack), Total float, Free float
- Identify Critical Path
- Leads & Lags
- Activity Duration Estimating (Effort estimate Vs Duration Estimate)
- CPM (Forward pass & backward pass) & PERT
- Crashing, Fast-tracking & Resource Levelling
- Gantt Chart, Project calendar, Resource calendar, RAM/RACI, Resource Histogram
- Project cost management fundamentals
- Types of cost
- Depreciation (Straight Line, Accelerated), Sunk costs
- Cost Estimating (Top-down, Bottom-up, Parametric, etc.)
- Accuracy range of estimates (Order of magnitude, Conceptual, Definite)
- Cost budgeting, Cost baseline&Cost control
- Earned Value Management (EVM) – Concept & Calculation
- PV, EV, AC, SPI, CPI, BAC, EAC, ETC, VAC, TCPI (including exercises)
- Quality Vs Grade
- Quality Management, TQM, Quality policy, Gold plating
- Quality Management process (QA&QC)
- Quality Planning (Quality management plan)
- Cost of Quality (COQ)
- Quality Assurances& Quality audits
- QC (Fishbone diagram, Pareto chart, Control charts, Flow charts, Inspection, Sampling, Run chart)
- HR planning (Roles & Responsibilities, Authority, Competency, RAM/RACI, etc)
- Roles of Project sponsor, Team member, Functional manager, Project manager
- Staffing management plan
- Acquiring Project Team
- Develop Project Team
- Motivational Theories
- Manage Project Team
- Communication management
- Sender-Medium-Receiver model
- Communications planning (communication management plan)
- Information distribution (Forms of communication, Communication methods & channels)
- Calculating number of communication channels
- Performance reporting (Status reports, &Other reports, Earned value)
- Manage stakeholder’s communication
- Project meetings
- Risk Vs. Assumptions Vs.Constraints
- Risk Management. Plan
- Risk Identification (Risk Register)
- Qualitative Risk analysis
- Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Expected value calculation (Decision Tree Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation)
- Risk Responses– Opportunities &Threats
- Secondary risks& Residual risks
- Reserves (Contingency reserves &Management reserves)
- Risk Monitoring & Control
- Plan Procurements
- Contract & Contract types
- CR (Cost reimbursable): CPFF, CPPC, CPIF, CPAF
- FFP (Firm Fixed Price): FPIF, FPEFA
- T&M (Time and Material)
- SOW
- Request Seller responses (RFP’s)&Selecting Sellers
- Administering Contracts
- Contract Closure
- Identifying Stakeholders
- Planning Stakeholder Engagement
- Managing Stakeholder Engagement
- Controlling Stakeholder Engagement
- Agile overview
- Agile mindset
- Agile Manifesto & Principles
- Agile – key terms
- Minimum Viable Product
- Predictive & Hybrid approaches
- Agile Team
- Agile Ground Rules
- Product Owner
- Scrum Master
- Epic
- User Stories
- Product backlog
- Sprint
- Agile Sprint Planning
- Burndown chart
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Reviews
- Sprint Retrospectives
- User stories estimation
- Scrum artifacts
- Kanban
- eXtreme Programming
- Lean
- Project prioritization
- Product development
- Verification & Validation
- Test driven development
- Continuous integration system
- Product release
- Project risks & issues management
- PMI® “Project Management Professional Code of Professional Conduct”
- Honesty, Responsibility, Respect and Fairness