PMP Prep Course

This training course not only prepares you for PMI^®’s PMP^® Exam, more importantly you can begin immediately implementing the principles and techniques of modern project management in your business and work environment.  This PMP^® Prep course will use a sample project, providing attendees with the opportunity to practice project management best practices.  Class exercises will include development of key project documents including a project charter, stakeholder analysis, communications plan, work breakdown structure, schedule and budget, and risk management plan.

Session 1 – Course Orientation and Syllabus

This session is only conducted in the Online Instructor Directed course and is held two weeks before Session 2.  Online-PMO wants to ensure that each participant is prepared to begin the course without any interruptions.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Is made aware of the PMP^® Exam Price, what it takes to maintain their PMP^® and the prerequisites PMP^®
  • Has time to purchase the PMBOK^® Fifth Edition
  • Understands the course structure
    • How to utilize the Study Guides when viewing each training Module
    • Has access to Online-PMO training modules
    • Understands the importance in reading the PMBOK^® Guide^®
    • Has a clear understanding how to take and what they need to score on session quiz

Session 2 – Introducing Project Management

Provides an overview of project management, exploring its five process.  These five processes will guide you through the life of a project, and, more importantly, through the PMP examination.  We will also examine the project framework, general management expertise, and other related areas of project management.  The information that you learn in this module will help you succeed in the world as a Project Management Professional (PMP^®).

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Defining What a Project Is – and Is Not
  • Defining Project Management
  • Building the Project Management Framework
  • Adapting Management Expertise
  • Examining Related Areas of Project Management

Session 3 – Examining the Project Management Framework

Project management, the ability to get things done, must support the higher vision of the organization the project management activities are occurring in.  Projects must be in alignment with the organization’s vision, strategy, tactics, and goals.  Projects that are not in line with the higher vision of the organization will not be around long – or, at best, they are doomed to fail.  In this module, we will cover how the life of a project, the interests of the stakeholders, and the organization environment will influence the success and completion of projects.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Moving Through Project Phases
  • Working with Project Life Cycles
  • Meeting the Project Stakeholders
  • Identifying Organizational Models and Attributes
  • Defining Key General Management Skills
  • Managing Social, Economic and Environmental Project Influences

Session 4 – Examining the Project Management Processes

Project management, does not come with exact step-by-step directions.  It is a fluid process with general guidelines, stakeholder requirements, and you leading the project to reach the customer requirements.  In this module, we will talk about how all of the different parts of the project are interrelated.  Specifically, we will discuss the project processes and their interactions, the ability to customize the project processes, and how all of this business works towards your current project of passing your PMP^® examination.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Learning the Project Processes
  • Identifying the Initiating Processes
  • Identifying the Planning Processes
  • Identifying the Executing Processes
  • Identifying the Monitoring and Controlling Processes
  • Identifying the Closing Processes

Session 5 – Introducing Project Stakeholder Management

A key factor in the success of a project is managing stakeholder needs, wants and expectations.  During this practical stakeholder management course, you will learn how to identify key stakeholders and define their roles, establish how committed are they to the project, align and prioritize stakeholder requirements to business and organizational objectives, and gain ‘buy-in’.  We’ll also cover communication techniques such as dealing with organizational politics, resolving conflict and managing expectations that can’t be met, as well as ongoing management issues such as selling the project, maintaining commitment and status reporting.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Understand stakeholder needs
  • Understand how stakeholders influences your project
  • Know how to deal with multiple stakeholders with divergent interests
  • Understand how to manage stakeholder expectations, including quality and performance expectations
  • Understand the need to communicate your strategy to the project team, the customer, and other project stakeholders
  • Resolve conflict and competing priorities
  • Manage project public relations and organizational politics
  • Contain expectations through effective status reporting and progress meetings

Session 6 – Introducing Project Communications Management

Constant, effective communication among all project stakeholders ranks high among the factors leading to the success of a project.  It is a key prerequisite of getting the right things done in the right way.  As knowledge is power, sharing knowledge empowering every project stakeholder.  This course focuses on the core project communications management skills required to manage a project.  We will provide the attendees with proven “real life” tools and techniques and put into context through various exercises and scenarios and case studies.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Implement the processes of Project Communication Management.
  • Understand the project manager’s role in it.
  • Identify project stakeholder and understand their communication needs
  • List the common elements of communication and integrate these into their day to day communications
  • Build a strong communication plan
  • Learn effective communication tools and techniques that can be applied to a project environment.

Session 7 – Managing the Project Scope Management

Effective scope management and the presence or absence of detailed requirements for a project solution is generally accepted as one of the key indicators of project success. Through the use of discussion, hands-on exercise and simple case studies, students will be exposed to what scope is and how to develop and document it. The course will also address requirements, a key aspect of project scope, why they are important, the types of requirements and the need for high-level and detailed requirements. The course will identify how to partner for success when incorporating stakeholders into the requirements gathering process, requirements-related project start-up issues, the essential elements of communicating requirements, and why being “agile (applying the right amount of discipline and process) is important for project success.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Understand what requirements are and why they are important.
  • Understand the nature and origins of project scope, objectives, requirements and why they are important.
  • Relate scope, objectives and requirements to the Project Life Cycle.
  • Use mechanisms to manage changes to scope and the identification of new requirements.
  • Understand the importance of stakeholders to the scope development process.
  • Identify how to identify and document the “real” requirements.
  • Understand the need for effective teamwork during scope management process.
  • Relate the need for the “right” amount of discipline and process during requirements gathering and management.
  • Understand the need for continuous improvement in identifying business objectives and how they relate to requirements.
  • Be familiar with the link between scope, objectives, requirements, risk and the project manager.

Session 8 – Introducing Project Time Management

Establishing effective measures to plan and master projects in using modern project management tools, this would best way to describe this course. You will learn how to develop effective measures for scheduling and controlling project and to focus on managing the constraints you face in any project: limits on time, human resources, materials, budget, and specifications. With the help of practice exercises, you will be able to establish the WBS and its specifications.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Make realistic estimates on the project cost and schedule.
  • Establish a preliminary scope statement.
  • Use the work breakdown structure (WBS) of a project to develop a network diagram.
  • Evaluate the Time Management forecasts by using the PERT and the critical path.
  • Optimize the project duration with compression techniques and parallel tasks.
  • Apply the earned value to ensure an effective follow-up of the Time and Cost Management of a project.
  • To manage effectively the change requests that have an impact on the costs and deadlines of a project.

Session 9 – Network Diagrams and Scheduling

The project schedule is one of the key project management deliverables. In fact, it may be the document that is most fundamental to the success of the project. The project charter and scope statement describe the nature of the project and what you are trying to achieve. The project schedule tells you how you are going to complete the work.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Understand the purpose of a project schedule
  • Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Estimate the effort, duration and cost of a project
  • Convert a WBS to a network diagram to sequence the work
  • Understand the importance the critical path
  • Build a final schedule
  • Recognize schedule problems and utilize techniques to get back on schedule

Session 10 – Introducing Project Human Resource Management

This module overviews basic processes for organizing and managing a project team – a group of people charged with the responsibilities for completing the project. Emphasis is on PMBOK processes for (a) human resource planning, (b) acquiring the project team, (c) developing the team, and (d) managing the project team. This module culminates with participants initiating the conceptual design, development, and creation of the Staffing Management Plan associated with their individual class project.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Articulate the process of identifying and documenting the required roles/responsibilities required for the project.
  • Work through the required elements and develop of a Staffing Management Plan.
  • Identify the common tasks and activities contributing to the acquisition of the project team.
  • Recognize project managers’ responsibility for continuous improvement of team members’ competencies and skills.
  • Understand the managerial roles for tracking member performance, providing feedback, and resolving issues to enhance project performance.

Session 11 – Introducing Project Costs Management

Introducing Project Cost Management examines the management of project costs, how to predict them, account for them, and then, with plan in hand, to control them.  We will examine exactly how costs are planned for and taken into consideration by the performing organization and how the size of the project affects the cost estimating process.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Introducing Project Cost Management
  • Planning the Project Resources
  • Cost Estimating
  • Analyzing Cost Estimating Results
  • Complete Cost Budgeting
  • Implementing Cost Control
  • Considering the Cost Control Results

Session 12 – Preparing for the Exam

The journey to become a Project Management Professional is not an easy one, but

Online-PMO.com is committed to helping students reach this goal.  During this session you will begin applying for the PMP certification.   Students are provided valuable information that will help them understand the requirements for certification, and offer tips to help students successfully navigate the exam application process.

http://www.webvent.tv/uploads/assets/1392/document/201109_PMPExamAppGuide.pdf

Session 13 – Introducing Project Risk Management

This training offers a businesslike approach centered on project-related risk and uncertainties management processes. Its systematic approach will help protect you against threats, while introducing tools which will help you take advantage of opportunities related to the project. The session covers every tool and technique presented in the PMBOK^® Guide from the PMI^® as well as additional tools and techniques required to apply these concepts in real-life situations. It considers risk management in the context of the project’s life cycle and pinpoints the core problems related to assessment, limitation and risk response. Upon completion of this training, you will be able to integrate risk management into your organization’s strategy, using proven techniques.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Use a 7-step operational process to manage risks
  • Identify threats and opportunities and measure their relative value within your project
  • Establish a risk management plan
  • Control multiple risks with limited strategies
  • Integrate risk and opportunities within your next project planning

Session 14 – Introducing Project Quality Management

This course brings the forefront the essentials of quality management and its vital link to business success. More and more businesses today are realizing that in order to guarantee customer satisfaction and therefore remain competitive in the market place, they must institute quality concepts, tools, and techniques into their organization. This includes the quality standards, ISO 9000’s credential and continuous improvement process understanding. This course shows you how to integrate quality management concepts with project management practices to create a successful customer relationship and business environment.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Choose among common models of Quality Management.
  • Set up concepts of quality within processes and projects.
  • Identify the client’s needs and to determine the Quality-Assurance standards.
  • Develop a Project Quality Plan.
  • Use tools and Quality control techniques to collect and measure performance.
  • Evaluate performance measures and determine the means to set up processes improvement.

Session 15 – Introducing Project Procurement Management

Contracting officers, purchasing managers, and subcontractors are often among the players with whom the project manager must work to achieve overall project success. The increasingly complex legal and regulatory structure within which contracts are formed, and the prominent role contracting and purchasing personnel play in achieving project objectives, require project managers to understand the fundamental of procurement and contracting process. Get an overview of all phases of contracting, from requirements development to closeout. Effective contract negotiation and administration can ensure project success, reducing risks and costs.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Identify contract components and understand the process from start to finish
  • Select the right contract type for your project
  • Understand the business legal terminologies
  • Choose the offer that will result in the best value for the buyer
  • Negotiate favorable terms and make revisions to the contract
  • Administer contracts appropriately, and know when and how to terminate before or upon completion

Session 16 – Implementing Project Integration Management

This course is focused on the processes and activities used to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities across the life cycle of a project. Project management integration includes unification, consolidation, communication, and integrative actions that draw upon the project management knowledge groups and practices, which make up the framework of structured project management methodology.

B

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Develop project charter
  • Develop project management plan
  • Direct, manage and monitor and control project work
  • Perform integrated change control
  • Close the project or phase.

Session 17 – Practice Exam

Take a sample of the Exam

Session 1 – Introducing Project Management

• Training Material
  • Project Management Framework Study Guide
• Training Modules
  • Defining What a Project Is and Is Not
  • Defining Project Management
  • Building the Project Management Framework
  • Adapting Management Expertise
  • Examining Related Areas of Project Management
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 1. Introduction
• Introducing Project Management Quiz

Session 2 – Examining the Project Management Framework

• Training Modules
  • Examining the Project Management Framework Study Guide
• Training Modules
  • Moving Through Project Phases
  • Working with Project Life Cycles
  • Meeting the Project Stakeholders
  • Identifying Organizational Models and Attributes
  • Defining Key General Management Skills
  • Managing Social, Economical and Environmental Project Influences
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 2. Organizational Influences and Project Life Cycle
• Examining the Project Management Framework Quiz

Session 3 – Examining the Project Management Processes

• Training Modules
  • Examining the Project Management Processes Study Guide
• Training Modules
  •  
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 3. Project Management Process
• Examining the Project Management Processes Quiz

Session 4 – Project Stakeholder Management

• Training Material
  • Project Stakeholder Management Study Guide\
  • Project Stakeholder Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • Stakeholders, Expectations and Risks
  • Stakeholders Communication
  • Resolving Stakeholder Conflicts
  • Develop Change Control Processes
  • Stakeholders Satisfaction
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 13. Project Stakeholder Management
• Project Stakeholder Management Quiz

Session 5 – Introducing Project Communications Management

• Training Material
  • Introducing Project Communications Management Study Guide
  • Introducing Project Communications Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • Communications Planning
  • Preparing for Information Distribution
  • Reporting Project Performance
  • Completing Administrative Closure
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 10. Project Communications Management
• Introducing Project Communications Management Quiz

Session 6 – Managing the Project Scope Management

• Training Material
  • Managing the Project Scope Management Study Guide
  • Managing the Project Scope Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • Defining Project Scope Management
  • Planning the Project Scope
  • Creating the Scope Definition
  • Verifying the Project Scope
  • Protecting the Scope from Change
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 5. Project Scope Management
• Managing the Project Scope Management Quiz

Session 7 – Introducing Project Time Management

• Training Material
  • Introducing Project Time Management Study Guide
  • Introducing Project Time Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • Defining the Project Activities
  • Mapping the Activities
  • Estimating Activity Durations
  • Developing the Project Schedule
  • Creating the Project Schedule
  • Considering the Outputs of Schedule Development
  • Controlling the Project Schedule
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 6. Project Time Management
• Introducing Project Time Management Quiz

Session 8 – Network Diagrams and Scheduling (Enter Date)

• Complete Additional Network Diagrams and Scheduling Exercises

Session 9 – Introducing Project Human Resource Management

•  
• Training Material
  • Introducing Project Human Resource Management Study Guide
  • Introducing Project Human Resource Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • Introducing Project Human Resource Management
  • Preparing for Organizational Planning
  • Completing Organizational Planning
  • Examining Organizational Planning Results
  • Managing Staff Acquisitions
  • Acquiring the Needed Staff
  • Leading Project Team Development
  • Examining the Results of Team Development
• Read PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 9. Project Human Resource Management
• Introducing Project Human Resource Management Quiz

Session 10 – Introducing Project Costs Management

• Training Material
  • Introducing Project Costs Management Study Guide
  • Introducing Project Costs Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • Introducing Project Cost Management
  • Planning the Project Resources
  • Cost Estimating
  • Analyzing Cost Estimating Results
  • Complete Cost Budgeting
  • Implementing Cost Control
  • Considering the Cost Control Results
• Read PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 7. Project Costs Management
• Introducing Project Costs Management Quiz

Session 11 – Preparing for the Exam

• Training Material
  • PMP^® Code of Professional Conduct Study Guide
  • PMP^® Code of Professional Conduct Study Exercises
• Training Modules
  • PMP^® Code of Professional Conduct
• PMP^® Code of Professional Conduct Quiz

Session 12 – Introducing Project Risk Management

• Training Material
  • Introducing Project Risk Management Study Guide
  • Introducing Project Risk Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • Implementing Quality Control
  • Implanting The Quality Policy
  • Planning for Quality
  • Preparing for Quality
  • Results of Quality Control
  • The Big Quality Picture
• Read PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 11. Project Risk Management
• Introducing Project Risk Management Quiz

Session 13 – Introducing Project Quality Management

• Training Material
  • Introducing Project Quality Management Study Guide
  • Introducing Project Quality Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • The Big Quality Picture
  • Preparing for Quality
  • Planning for Quality
  • Implementing the Quality Policy
  • Implementing Quality Control
  • Results of Quality Control
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 8. Project Quality Management
• Introducing Project Risk Management Quiz

Session 14 – Introducing Project Procurement Management

• Training Material
  • Introducing Project Procurement Management Study Guide
  • Introducing Project Procurement Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • Planning for Procurement
  • Completing Procurement Planning
  • Completing Solicitation Planning
  • Creating Evaluation Criteria
  • Completing Solicitation
  • Examining the Results of a Solicitation
  • Performing Contract Administration
  • Performing Contract Closeout
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter 12. Project Procurement Management
• Introducing Project Procurement Management Quiz

Session 15 – Implementing Project Integration Management

• Training Material
  • Implementing Project Integration Management Study Guide
  • Implementing Project Integration Management Exercises
• Training Modules
  • Developing the Project Plan
• Read PMBOK^® Guide Fifth Edition – Chapter Project Integration Management
• Implementing Project Integration Management Quiz

Session 16 – Practice Exam

• Practice Exam

This training course not only prepares you for PMI ^®’s PMP^® Exam, but more importantly, you can begin immediately implementing the principles and techniques of project management in your business and work environment.  This PMP^® Prep course will use a sample project, providing attendees with the opportunity to practice project management best practices.  Class exercises will include the development of key project documents, including a project charter, stakeholder analysis, communications plan, work breakdown structure, schedule and budget, and risk management plan.

Session 1 – Course Orientation and Syllabus

This session is only conducted in the Online Instructor Directed course and is held two weeks before Session 2.  Online-PMO wants to ensure that each participant is prepared to begin without any surprises, unknowns, and make the student fully aware of the commitment required for the course.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Is made aware of the PMP^® Exam Price, what it takes to maintain their PMP^® and the prerequisites PMP^®
  • Has time to purchase the PMBOK^® Fifth Edition
  • Understands the course structure
    • How to utilize the Study Guides when viewing each training Module
    • Has access to Online-PMO training modules
    • Understands the importance of reading the PMBOK^® Guide^®
    • Has a clear understanding of how to take and what they need to score on session quiz

Session 2 – Introducing Project Management

Provides an overview of project management, exploring its five processes.  These five processes will guide you through the life of a project, and, more importantly, through the PMP examination. We will also examine the project framework, general management expertise, and other related areas of project management.  The information that you learn in this module will help you succeed in the world as a Project Management Professional (PMP^®).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Defining What a Project Is – and Is Not
  • Defining Project Management
  • Building the Project Management Framework
  • Adapting Management Expertise
  • Examining Related Areas of Project Management

Session 3 – Examining the Project Management Framework

Project management is the ability to get things done that support the vision of the organization.  Projects must be in alignment with the organization’s vision, strategy, tactics, and goals.  Projects that are not in line with the organization will not be around long – or, at best, they are doomed to fail.  In this module, we will cover how the life of a project, the interests of the stakeholders, and the organization environment will influence the success and completion of projects.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Moving Through Project Phases
  • Working with Project Life Cycles
  • Meeting the Project Stakeholders
  • Identifying Organizational Models and Attributes
  • Defining Key General Management Skills
  • Managing Social, Economic and Environmental Project Influences

Session 4 – Examining the Project Management Processes

Project management does not come with exact step-by-step directions.  It is a fluid process with general guidelines, stakeholder requirements, and you leading the project to reach the customer requirements.  In this module, we will talk about how all of the different parts of the project are interrelated.  Specifically, we will discuss the project processes and their interactions, the ability to customize the project processes, and how all of this business works towards your current project of passing your PMP^® examination.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Learning the Project Processes
  • Identifying the Initiating Processes
  • Identifying the Planning Processes
  • Identifying the Executing Processes
  • Identifying the Monitoring and Controlling Processes
  • Identifying the Closing Processes

Session 5 – Introducing Project Stakeholder Management

A critical factor in the success of a project is managing stakeholder needs, wants, and expectations.  During this session, you will learn how to identify key stakeholders and define their roles, establish how committed they are to the project, align and prioritize stakeholder requirements to business and organizational objectives, and gain ‘buy-in.’ We’ll also cover communication techniques such as dealing with organizational politics, resolving conflict, and managing expectations that can’t be met, as well as ongoing management issues such as selling the project, maintaining commitment, and status reporting.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Understand stakeholder needs
  • Understand how stakeholders influence your project
  • Know how to deal with multiple stakeholders with divergent interests
  • Understand how to manage stakeholder expectations, including quality and performance expectations
  • Understand the need to communicate your strategy to the project team, the customer, and other project stakeholders
  • Resolve conflict and competing priorities
  • Manage project public relations and organizational politics
  • Contain expectations through effective status reporting and progress meetings

Session 6 – Introducing Project Communications Management

Constant, effective communication among all project stakeholders ranks high among the factors leading to the success of a project.  It is a crucial prerequisite of getting the right things done in the right way.  As knowledge is power, sharing knowledge empowering every project stakeholder.  This course focuses on the core communication management skills required to manage a project.  We will provide the attendees with proven “real life” tools and techniques and put them into context through various exercises and scenarios and case studies.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Implement the processes of Project Communication Management.
  • Understand the project manager’s role in it.
  • Identify project stakeholder and understand their communication needs
  • List the common elements of communication and integrate these into their day to day communications
  • Build a healthy communication plan
  • Learn useful communication tools and techniques that can be applied to a project environment.

Session 7 – Managing the Project Scope Management

Effective scope management and the presence or absence of detailed requirements for a project solution is generally accepted as one of the critical indicators of project success. Through the use of discussion, hands-on exercise, and simple case studies, students will be exposed to what scope is and how to develop and document it. The course will also address requirements, an essential aspect of project scope, why they are important, the types of requirements, and the need for high-level and detailed requirements. The course will identify how to partner for success when incorporating stakeholders into the requirements gathering process, requirements-related project start-up issues, the essential elements of communicating requirements, and why being “agile (applying the right amount of discipline and process) is necessary for project success.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Understand what requirements are and why they are essential.
  • Understand the nature and origins of project scope, objectives, requirements, and why they are important.
  • Relate scope, objectives, and requirements to the Project Life Cycle.
  • Use mechanisms to manage changes to scope and the identification of new requirements.
  • Understand the importance of stakeholders in the scope development process.
  • Identify how to identify and document the “real” requirements.
  • Understand the need for effective teamwork during the scope management process.
  • Relate the need for the “right” amount of discipline and process during requirements gathering and management.
  • Understand the need for continuous improvement in identifying business objectives and how they relate to requirements.
  • Be familiar with the link between scope, objectives, requirements, risk, and the project manager.

Session 8 – Introducing Project Time Management

Establishing effective measures to plan and master projects in using modern project management tools, this would be the best way to describe this course. You will learn how to develop effective measures for scheduling and controlling projects and to focus on managing the constraints you face in any project: limits on time, human resources, materials, budget, and specifications. With the help of practice exercises, you will be able to establish the WBS and its specifications.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Make realistic estimates on the project cost and schedule.
  • Establish a preliminary scope statement.
  • Use the work breakdown structure (WBS) of a project to develop a network diagram.
  • Evaluate the Time Management forecasts by using the PERT and the critical path.
  • Optimize the project duration with compression techniques and parallel tasks.
  • Apply the earned value to ensure an effective follow-up of the Time and Cost Management of a project.
  • To manage effectively the change requests that have an impact on the costs and deadlines of a project.

Session 9 – Network Diagrams and Scheduling

The project schedule is one of the key project management deliverables. In fact, it may be the document that is most fundamental to the success of the project. The project charter and scope statement describe the nature of the project and what you are trying to achieve. The project schedule tells you how you are going to complete the work.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Understand the purpose of a project schedule
  • Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Estimate the effort, duration, and cost of a project
  • Convert a WBS to a network diagram to sequence the work
  • Understand the importance of the critical path
  • Build a final schedule
  • Recognize schedule problems and utilize techniques to get back on schedule

Session 10 – Introducing Project Human Resource Management

This module overviews basic processes for organizing and managing a project team – a group of people charged with the responsibilities for completing the project. Emphasis is on PMBOK processes for (a) human resource planning, (b) acquiring the project team, (c) developing the team, and (d) managing the project team. This module culminates with participants initiating the conceptual design, development, and creation of the Staffing Management Plan associated with their project.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Articulate the process of identifying and documenting the required roles/responsibilities as are necessary for the project.
  • Work through the required elements and develop of a Staffing Management Plan.
  • Identify the expected tasks and activities contributing to the acquisition of the project team.
  • Recognize project managers’ responsibility for continuous improvement of team members’ competencies and skills.
  • Understand the managerial roles for tracking member performance, providing feedback, and resolving issues to enhance project performance.

Session 11 – Introducing Project Costs Management

Introducing Project Cost Management examines the management of project costs, how to predict them, account for them, and then, with a plan in hand, to control them.  We will examine exactly how costs are planned for and taken into consideration by the performing organization and how the size of the project affects the cost estimating process.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Introducing Project Cost Management
  • Planning the Project Resources
  • Cost Estimating
  • Analyzing Cost Estimating Results
  • Complete Cost Budgeting
  • Implementing Cost Control
  • Considering the Cost Control Results

Session 12 – Preparing for the Exam

The journey to becoming a Project Management Professional is not an easy one, but Online-PMO.com is committed to helping students reach this goal.  During this session, you will begin applying for the PMP certification.   Students are provided valuable information that will help them understand the requirements for certification, and offer tips to help students successfully navigate the exam application process.

http://www.webvent.tv/uploads/assets/1392/document/201109_PMPExamAppGuide.pdf

Session 13 – Introducing Project Risk Management

This training offers a businesslike approach centered on project-related risk and uncertainties management processes. Its systematic approach will help protect you against threats while introducing tools that will help you take advantage of opportunities related to the project. The session covers every tool and technique presented in the PMBOK^® Guide from the PMI^®, as well as additional tools and techniques required to apply these concepts in real-life situations. It considers risk management in the context of the project’s life cycle and pinpoints the core problems related to assessment, limitation, and risk response. Upon completion of this training, you will be able to integrate risk management into your organization’s strategy, using proven techniques.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Use a 7-step operational process to manage risks
  • Identify threats and opportunities and measure their relative value within your project
  • Establish a risk management plan
  • Control multiple risks with limited strategies
  • Integrate risk and opportunities within your next project planning

Session 14 – Introducing Project Quality Management

This course brings the forefront the essentials of quality management and its vital link to business success. More and more businesses today are realizing that in order to guarantee customer satisfaction and therefore remain competitive in the market place, they must institute quality concepts, tools, and techniques into their organization. This includes the quality standards, ISO 9000’s credential, and continuous improvement process understanding. This course shows you how to integrate quality management concepts with project management practices to create a successful customer relationship and business environment.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Choose among standard models of Quality Management.
  • Set up concepts of quality within processes and projects.
  • Identify the client’s needs and to determine the Quality-Assurance standards.
  • Develop a Project Quality Plan.
  • Use tools and Quality control techniques to collect and measure performance.
  • Evaluate performance measures and determine the means to set up processes improvement.

Session 15 – Introducing Project Procurement Management

Contracting officers, purchasing managers, and subcontractors are often among the players with whom the project manager must work to achieve overall project success. The increasingly complex legal and regulatory structure within which contracts are formed, and the prominent role contracting and purchasing personnel play in achieving project objectives, require project managers to understand the fundamental of procurement and contracting process. Get an overview of all phases of contracting, from requirements development to closeout. Effective contract negotiation and administration can ensure project success, reducing risks and costs.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Identify contract components and understand the process from start to finish
  • Select the right contract type for your project
  • Understand the business legal terminologies
  • Choose the offer that will result in the best value for the buyer
  • Negotiate favorable terms and make revisions to the contract
  • Administer contracts appropriately, and know when and how to terminate before or upon completion

Session 16 – Implementing Project Integration Management

This course is focused on the processes and activities used to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities across the life cycle of a project. Project management integration includes unification, consolidation, communication, and integrative actions that draw upon the project management knowledge groups and practices, which make up the framework of structured project management methodology.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• • Develop project charter
  • Develop a project management plan
  • Direct, manage and monitor and control project work
  • Perform integrated change control
  • Close the project or phase.

Session 17 – Practice Exam

• Take a sample of the Exam