Project Management Certificate Program

learning objectives:

• Describe how projects assist an organization in achieving its goals and what factors lead to successful project outcomes.
• Describe how project management knowledge is organized under the PMBOK® Guide framework.
• Initiate a project using a project charter.
• Identify and analyze project stakeholders.
• Determine stakeholder information needs and project communication requirements.
• Describe the responsibilities of the project manager during project execution.
• Manage stakeholder expectations to ensure stakeholder satisfaction.
• Create a responsibility assignment matrix.
• Describe how to develop an effective project team and proactively manage conflict.
• Develop a project scope statement and decompose a project to build a work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Decompose WBS work packages into activities and construct a network diagram.
• Estimate durations for project activities.
• Perform project schedule calculations and identify the critical path.
• Apply analogous, parametric, bottom-up, and three-point cost estimating techniques and prepare a time-phased cost budget.
• Describe factors involved in selecting a type of contract.
• Specify a quality metric and how it will be measured to achieve a quality goal for a product or process.
• Create a cause-and-effect diagram and use it to perform a root-cause analysis.
• Describe how project status information supports project monitoring and control.
• Identify techniques to monitor and control physical resources.
• Demonstrate how to assess project risks based on probability and impact.
• Develop and implement appropriate risk response strategies to address positive and negative risks.
• Analyze work performance data using the earned value management (EVM) technique.
• Describe what steps are necessary in a change control procedure in order to ensure that only authorized changes are made to project baselines.

Day One

Module 1: Introduction to Project Management

• Understanding Project Management
• Project Organization
• Project Life Cycle
• The Project Management Framework
• Exercise: Manage for Project Success

Module 2: Develop the Project Charter

• Introduction to Project Initiation
• Understanding Project Processes
• Process: Develop Project Charter
• Exercise: Develop the Project Charter

Module 3: Plan for Stakeholder Engagement

• Overview
• Process: Identify Stakeholders
• Process: Plan Stakeholder Engagement
• Exercise: Analyze Project Stakeholders

Day Two

Module 4: Plan Communications Management

• Overview
• Process: Plan Communications Management
• Exercise: Analyze Communication Requirements

Module 5: Develop and Execute the Project Management Plan

• Overview
• Process: Develop Project Management Plan
• Process: Direct and Manage Project Work
• Process: Manage Project Knowledge

Module 6: Manage Stakeholder Expectations

• Overview
• Process: Manage Stakeholder Engagement
• Process: Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

Module 7: Close Project or Phase

• Overview
• Process: Close Project or Phase

Module 8: Define Project and Product Scope

• Identifying Project Scope
• Process: Collect Requirements
• Activity: Requirements Worksheet
• Process: Define Scope
• Activity: Product Analysis
• Exercise: Create a Project Scope Statement

Module 9: Organize the Work

• Overview
• Process: Create WBS
• Exercise: Create a Work Breakdown Structure
• Process: Plan Scope Management

Day Three

Module 10: Organize Project Activities

• Overview
• Exercise: Schedule a Small Project
• Process: Define Activities
• Exercise: Create an Activity List
• Process: Sequence Activities
• Exercise: Create a Project Schedule Network Diagram

Module 11: Estimate Activity Duration

• Overview
• Process: Estimate Activity Durations
• Exercise: Estimate Activity Durations

Module 12: Develop the Schedule

• Overview
• Process: Develop Schedule
• Exercise: Develop a Project Schedule
• Process: Plan Schedule Management

Module 13: Resource Planning

• Overview
• Process: Plan Resource Management
• Exercise: Use a RACI Chart to Assign Project Responsibilities
• Process: Estimate Activity Resources

Module 14: Managing the Team

• Process: Acquire Resources
• Process: Develop Team
• Process: Manage Team

Day Four

Module 15: Cost Estimating and Budgeting

• Overview: Project Cost Management
• Process: Estimate Costs
• Exercise: Prepare a Cost Estimate
• Process: Determine Budgets
• Exercise: Establish the Cost Baseline
• Process: Plan Cost Management

Module 16: Procurement Management

• Overview
• Process: Plan Procurement Management
• Process Conduct Procurements
• Process: Control Procurements

Module 17: Project Quality

• Overview
• Process: Plan Quality Management
• Exercise: Determine Quality Metrics
• Process: Manage Quality
• Exercise: Conduct a Root Cause Analysis
• Process: Control Quality

Day Five

Module 18: Risk Assessment

• Overview
• Process: Identify Risks
• Exercise: Identify Project Risks
• Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Plan Risk Response
• Exercise: Analyze and Respond to Project Risks
• Plan Risk Management

Module 19: Controlling Resources, Schedule, and Scope

• Monitoring and Controlling Overview
• Process: Control Resources
• Process: Control Schedule
• Scope Monitoring and Control
• Process: Control Scope
• Activity: Scope Variances
• Process: Validate Scope

Module 20: Controlling Cost with Earned Value

• Overview of Control Costs
• Earned Value Basics
• Exercise: Analyze Earned Value Measurements
• Forecasting with Earned Value
• Exercise: Forecast at Completion – Analyze Earned Value Measurements

Module 21: Managing Risk and Communications

• Process: Implement Risk Responses
• Process: Monitor Risks
• Process: Manage Communications
• Work Performance Reports
• Process: Monitor Communications

Module 22: Monitoring Project Performance and Managing Changes

• Process: Monitor and Control Project Work
• Process: Perform Integrated Change Control
• Exercise: Perform Integrated Change Control