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D. Hughes & Co. is a global registered education provider with the Project Management Institute.
Project Management Professional Certification
Pursue professional improvement or prepare for a certification exam. This course offers a role-based hands-on approach to successful project management across application areas.
Course Specifications
Course identifier: PMPCert.1007
Course duration: 35.0 hours / 35.0 PDUs.
Delivery schedule: Customizable, but the standard schedule is 4.5 days Monday through Friday morning.
Course DescriptionThis course builds on the basic tools and techniques found in the body of knowledge for project management. It offers a role-based hands-on approach to successful project management across application areas. It uses practical, methodology-driven techniques that map directly to real-world needs.
A fully detailed theoretical case study is integrated with the course which challenges you to demonstrate your skills and talents for what you have learned.
Course Objective: You will apply the generally accepted practices of project management acknowledged by the Project Management Institute, the Association for Project Management, and the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (International Project Management Association affiliate). You will apply concepts, tools, and techniques to a detailed theoretical case study starting with opportunity assessment and project capital budgeting and then progressing all the way through project close-out.
If you are applying for the PMP certifcation examination, this course satisfies the required 35 contact hours of education.
Target Student: This course is designed for experienced project managers who want to enhance their project management skills, apply a standards-based approach to project management, and obtain a professional project management certification credential.
Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend that you take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
Project Management Fundamentals
Microsoft Project - Level 1
Microsoft Project - Level 2
Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities, supported by online learning management system resources.
Performance-Based ObjectivesUpon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
understand the ethical obligations of a project management professional;
appreciate the history of project management and the professional societies now associated with it;
explain the basic concepts and resources used by most project managers;
demonstrate a command of the standard language of project management;
analyze project opportunities;
work with project capital budgeting plans;
initiate a project;
define project scope;
plan project work;
develop project schedules;
develop cost estimates and budgets;
plan project quality, staffing, and communications;
analyze risks and plan risk responses;
plan project procurements;
execute project work;
manage project procurement;
monitor and control project work;
monitor and control project schedule and costs;
monitor and control project performance and quality;
monitor and control project risk and procurements;
close the project.
Section 1: Examining Professional Project Management
Baseline knowledge assessment
Ethical standards and codes of conduct
The meaning of professional project management
The body of knowledge
Section 2: The Project Management Context
What is project management?
The roots of modern project management
Role vs. Job
The project management professional societies and their standards
The evolution and current state of standard terminology
Standard tools and techniques
Key concepts
The relationship of a project to the sponsoring organization
Required general management skills
Expert judgment and risk management
Section 3: Pre-project Activities
Project selection
Basic techniques of financial analysis and management accounting
Opportunity assessment and scoring models
Project capital budgeting
Section 4: Initiating a Project
Enterprise environmental factors
The business case
The statement of work
Authorizing the existence of a project
Identifying and managing project stakeholders
Working with the project life cycle
Section 5: Planning the Project
Framing the project management plan
Organizational process assets
Defining the project management information system (PMIS)
Scoping
Change management
Communications and reporting plans
Managing a responsibility assignment matrix
Best practice for human resources planning
Exploring the practice standard for work breakdown structures
Section 6: Activity Estimating and Project Schedule Development
Activity attributes
Thinking and working with work period estimates
The fundamental formula of project estimating
Dependency logic and the precedence diagramming method (PDM)
Critical path analysis
Modeling resource capacity and demand
Project, resource, and activity calendars
Resource assignment
Project schedule creation and what-if analyis
Schedule constraints
Resource leveling
Schedule optimization
Section 7: Cost Estimating and Budget Definition
Cost estimating techniques and how to apply them
Correlating work effort to work resource cost rates
Types of cost
Analyzing significant cost contributors
Re-estimating
Budget definition and approval
Setting the project baseline
Section 8: Risk Management Planning
Uncertainty, opportunity, and risk: eliminating terminology confusion
Qualitative vs. quantitative risk management
Risk impact and the project management life cycle
Risk tolerance
Contingency planning
Crisis management
Qualitative risk analysis concepts, tools, and techniques
Statistics
Quantitative risk analysis concepts, tools, and techniques
Communicating risk over project time
Section 9: Planning for Project Process Quality
History of modern quality management
Integration of scope verification, quality assurance, and quality control
Statistics - more!
Basic tools and techniques of quality management
Does a project manager really need these tools and techniques?
Organizational maturity models
The relationship of quality to leadership
Section 10: Project Procurement Planning
The buyer-seller perspctive
The vendor solicitation process
Contracts and market conditions
Business law and what the project manager must know
Negotiating incentive-type contracts
Integrating procurement and risk management
Section 11: Executing the Project Work
Directing and managing project execution
Following the quality assurance plan
Acquiring, developing, and managing the project team
Work performance information collection, analysis, and dissemination
Earned value management
Project forecasting
Re-estimating the project
Budget reconciliation
Monitoring and controlling risks
Integrated change control
Section 12: Closing the Project
Integrating scope verification, quality control, and product acceptance
Project administration
Contract compliance and closure
The WBS dictionary and its relationship with the PMIS
Section 13: PMI PMBOK Guide Structure and Contents
Mapping knowledge areas to process groups
Integrating process groups with the project life cycle
Knowledge areas at 10,000 feet
Acronyms and definitions
Section 14: Wrapping Up
Final in-class review
Professional certification options, approaches, and exam details
Student experience survey
Final exam
Post-class individual consultations
Appendix A: Study Resources