Project Management Certificate Program

The on-demand version of the Project Management Certificate Program uses a combination of 7 milestones and 12 lessons to help you prepare for the PMI PMP exam.  This 35-hour pack of learning material is simple to work with and powerful enough to help prepare you to successfully pass the exam to earn your PMP  credential.

Project Management Framework

• PMBOK  Guide - structure and intent
• Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM)
• Definitions
• Project life cycle
• Project portfolio management
• Project management process groups
• Knowledge areas
• PMBOK  Guide process model

Project Integration Management

• Defining project success
• Competing demands
• Focus of integrated planning
• Areas of expertise needed by the project team
• Process group interaction in a project
• Initiating projects
• Developing a project charter
• Project selection methods
• Benefit measurement methods
• Project scope statement
• Key project planning deliverables
• Change control

Project Stakeholder Management

• Identifying stakeholders
• Stakeholder analysis
• Planning stakeholder management
• Managing stakeholder engagement
• Stakeholder communication techniques
• Interpersonal skills when dealing with stakeholders
• Managing stakeholder meetings

Project Scope Management

• Project scope planning
• Project scope definition
• Scope statement
• Statement of work
• Work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Decomposition
• Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
• Scope validation
• Scope control

Project Time Management

• Project time management processes
• Natural transition from scope management
• Activity definition processes
• WBS decomposition
• Activity sequencing
• Precedence diagramming method
• Precedence relationships
• Activity resource estimating
• Activity duration estimating
• Estimating approached
• Schedule development
• Critical path method (CPM)
• PERT
• Critical chain techniques
• Schedule negotiations
• Schedule control

Project Cost Management

• Cost management plan
• Cost estimating
• Estimating checklist
• Learning curve
• Cost budgeting
• Reserve
• Project life-cycle costs

Project Human Resource Management

• Cost management plan
• Cost estimating
• Estimating checklist
• Learning curve
• Cost budgeting
• Reserve
• Project life-cycle costs
• Approaches to conflict

Project Quality Management

• The importance of quality
• Historical evolution of quality
• Quality planning process
• Quality characteristics
• Quality policy
• Quality assurance
• Quality control
• Quality tools
• Six Sigma

Project Risk Management

• Customer Sign-Off
• Turning Over the Product
• Learning From Experience
• Project Management 10 Knowledge Areas

Project Communications Management

• Types of communication
• Communications process
• Barriers to effective communication
• Communication planning
• Stakeholder analysis
• Communications plan
• Communication styles
• Meetings
• Performance reporting
• Managing stakeholders

Project Procurement Management

• Procurement planning process
• Buyers and sellers
• Purchase plans and acquisitions
• Types of contracts
• Contract costs
• Proposals
• Contract negotiations
• Contract control
• Contract change control
• Legal perspectives
• Contract closure

Cross-Cutting Skills

• Professional and social responsibility tasks
• Code of conduct
• Sample questions

PMP Exam Preparation

• The PMP  certification process
• Project management professional (PMP ) examination specification
• PMP  eligibility requirements
• The revised PMP  credential examination overview
• Additional study references
• Formulas and other fun stuff
• Study plan and study groups
• Application options

Benefits of this Course

• Mobile-friendly learning that you can access from your tablet, iPad or other mobile device.
• Plays in any HTML 5-enabled browser.
• Detailed, quality training delivered by industry-leading subject matter experts.
• Features targeted pre- and post-course knowledge assessments, as well as a 200-question Final Exam.
• Step-by-step guidelines, exam preparation tips and advice to help ensure PMP exam success.
• PMBOK  Guide 5th Edition aligned and cross-referenced.
• In-depth lessons structured around PMBOK  Guide Knowledge Areas.
• Ability to repeat content as often as you wish.