Course Overview
The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading project management organization. This credential represents an elite group of project managers who have completed successful projects. It covers the five project management process groups of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling, as well as the nine knowledge areas of integration, scope, time, cost, quality, resource, communication, risk, and procurement management.
PMP certification validates that you are highly skilled in:
- People: Recognizing you have the skills to effectively lead and motivate a project team throughout a project.
- Process: Using predictive, agile and hybrid approaches to determine which way of working is best for each project.
- Business Environment: Highlighting the success of a project and its impact on overall strategic organizational goals.
Course Objective
Who should get certified:
Prerequisites:
Course Curriculum
- Getting to know the participants
- Introduction to PMI®
- PMP® Certification – advantages
- PMP® Certification – process and fees related information
- PMP ® Application procedures – instructions on how to fill in the form
- PMP® examination – information on the split of questions, question pattern
- PMP® examination – tips on how to prepare and take the examination (this theme will be reiterated throughout the course)
- PMP® – fulfilling the CCR requirements
- Familiarization with the course outline
- Familiarization with the protocols and timings
- Expectation setting and clarifications
- Introductory quiz – to assess the current level of familiarization of the participants with PMBOK® concepts and assess the gaps
- What are projects?
- Projects vs. operations
- Project management and the role of project manager
- The concept of progressive elaboration
- PMBOK® guide structure
- Interrelationship of project management with general management concepts
- The concept of program management and portfolio management
- The concept of Project Management Office (PMO)
- Multiple modes of operations of PMO
- The concept of project lifecycle and its characteristics
- Phases defining the project lifecycle
- Stakeholders in a project
- Varying types of project organizational structures – functional, matrix and projectized – their advantages and disadvantages
- Quiz – project management context
- Project management vs. product-oriented processes
- Description of five process groups in the project lifecycle and their interactions
- Characteristics and components of process groups
- Process interactions / customization of processes
- Mapping of project management processes across the process groups and knowledge areas
- Quiz – project management processes
- The role of integration management in project execution
- Description of multiple ways in a project can arise
- SOW – its characteristics
- Description of enterprise environmental factors and organizational assets which can impact a project
- Business case and continued business justification
- Project charter – its characteristics
- Project strategic alignment
- Description of various project selection methods – like mathematical models and financial criteria like ROI, NPV, IRRetc.
- Benefit realization
- Learning from lessons
- Project management plan development
- Contents of the project management plan
- PMIS – its role in effective project management
- Directing and managing project work
- The role of configuration management system in a project environment
- Monitoring and controlling project work
- Performing integrated change control
- How to manage changes in a project?
- Change control management activities involved in a project
- Role of change control board in project environment
- Closing a project (or a phase)
- Multiple types of closures (administrative closure and financial closure)
- Update on process to organizational process assets
- Quiz – project integration management
- Project scope vs. Product scope and their interrelationships
- Importance of scope management plan in the project
- Collect requirements process
- Define scope process
- Project scope statement – how to prepare and update?
- WBS – its key role in project management
- Creating and managing WBS
- Interactions of WBS with other breakdown structures used in project environment.
- Validate scope process
- Scope validation vs. Quality control
- Control scope process
- Quiz –project scope management
- Importance of time management in a project environment
- Define activities process
- Sequence activities process
- Multiple types of dependencies across activities
- Precedence diagramming method
- Estimating activity resource process
- Estimating activity duration process
- Various duration estimating procedures – top-down, bottom-up, analogous, parametric etc.
- The concept of contingency in time management
- Develop schedule process
- The importance of calendars in the scheduling process
- The importance of critical path in project management
- Critical path computation and explanation of its characteristics
- Application of techniques like fast tracking, crashing, resource optimization, PERT etc. in schedule development
- Use of modelling techniques in scheduling
- Critical chain applications
- Schedule l data-descriptions
- Control schedule process revision of schedules
- Quiz – project time management
- The importance of cost management in projects
- Project lifecycle costing vs. product lifecycle costing
- Cost management plan and its use in cost control
- Estimating costs process
- Cost management plan and its use in cost control
- Analogous, parametric, and bottom – up methods of cost estimating
- Multiple types of cost estimates – order of magnitude and definitive estimates.
- Determine budget process
- Cost baseline and its management
- Control costs process
- Planning quality management process
- Cost and schedule performance indices and their use in forecasting
- Multiple methods of depreciation
- Quiz – project cost management
- Project quality vs. product quality
- Concepts of quality management
- Project management vis-à-vis quality management
- Current themes in quality management
- Planning quality management process
- Project quality management plan and process improvement plan
- Perform quality assurance process
- The role of quality audits in quality management
- Perform quality control process
- Seven basic tools of quality control – including control charts, cause and effect diagrams, pareto diagrams, stratification, histograms, scatter diagrams etc.
- Applicability of normal distribution in SQC process capability definitions pioneers of quality – Deming, Juran, Crosby etc. and their key contributions
- Cost of quality / cost of non-quality concepts
- Quiz – project quality management
- Developing human resource management plan process
- Organizational planning and structures
- Description of OBS and RBS
- RAM and RACI Charts
- How staffing management plan enables HR management?
- Acquire project team process
- Managing virtual teams in a project environment
- Building effective project teams
- Develop project team process
- Importance of trainings in project team development
- Delegation for effective management
- Multiple stages of team development
- Manage project team process
- Performance appraisals of team members
- Types of power – de-facto and personal powers
- Project managers’ leadership styles
- Conflict handling –multiple models
- How to motivate team members?
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Fredrick Herzberg’s two-factor theory
- Theory X, Y and Z descriptions and their application to project management
- Expectancy theories
- Quiz – project human resource management
- Planning communications management process
- Project communications structures
- Communications requirements analysis in the project environment
- Communication channels in a project
- Communications management plan
- Sender receiver models in the project environment
- Manage communications process
- Communication methods – push, pull and interactive
- Control communication process
- Reporting performance
- Obstacles in cross-cultural communication
- Quiz – project communications management
- Risk management cycle in a project environment
- Plan risk management process
- Importance of risk management plan in the risk management lifecycle
- Types of risks which can impact a project
- Identify risks process
- Risk identification facilitators – brainstorming, Delphi techniques, SWOT analysis, documentation review, checklist analysis etc.
- Risk register preparation and updating
- Perform qualitative risk analysis process
- Probability impact matrix and its use in risk management
- Perform quantitative risk analysis process
- Use of varying simulation techniques
- Application of decision tree analysis and sensitivity analysis tools to risk management
- Plan risk responses process
- Strategies of risk response for positive and negative risks
- Different types of risks – primary risks, secondary risks, residual risks etc.
- Risk register updating
- Monitor and control risks process
- Use of risk audits, reserve analysis and variance and trend analysis in monitoring and control of risks
- Corrective and preventive actions in risk management process
- Why procurement is important for projects?
- Procurement management lifecycle
- Project manager’s procurement management responsibilities
- Plan procurement management process
- Centralized vs. decentralized procurement organizations
- Make or buy analysis
- Major types of contracts – including FFP, cost plus, T&M and their variations
- Risks associated with various types of contracts
- Importance of procurement management plan
- Creating procurement SOW and procurement documents
- Conduct procurements process
- Various types of procurement documents – including RFP, RFQ, IB etc.
- Source selection criteria to analyze vendor responses
- Source selection process
- Application of screening and weighting systems in procurements selection
- Use of independent estimates
- Contract negotiations process
- Multiple negotiation tactics
- Contracts – their legal implications
- Control procurements process
- Contract change – how to manage them more effectively
- Dispute management processes
- Contract documentation file
- Discharge of contracts
- Close procurements process
- Quiz – project procurement management
- Identify stakeholder process
- Conducting stakeholder analysis – power-interest grid
- Creating the stakeholder register
- Plan stakeholder management process
- Stakeholder engagement levels
- Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
- Manage stakeholder engagement process
- Control stakeholder engagement process
- Professional responsibility
- Professional responsibilities of the project manager
- Professional responsibilities towards – self-profession-stakeholders-society
- Quiz: professional responsibilities [with discussions]
- PMP® MOCK test (100 questions)
Corporate Benefits
By upskilling your employees in PMP training, you can:
HRD Corp Claimable
We are proud to be an authorized training provider of HRD Corp (Human Resources Development Corporation). Our certification training programs are eligible for funding under SBL-Khas Scheme.
HRD Corp provides training and upskilling opportunities for Malaysian employees who are:
- Malaysian citizens or permanent residents
- Employed in a company that contributes to HRD Corp (employer with 10 or more Malaysian employees, or employers from specific sectors)
- Registered with the HRD Corp portal and have an activated account
- Have not attended the same training program within the last 12 months
- Meet the specific requirements for the training program, such as qualifications, skills, or job-specific criteria.
Our dedicated team will help you every step of the way, from claim application to completion. Invest in your employees’ professional growth and development by enrolling them in our training today!
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Obtaining the PMP certification can demonstrate your dedication to project management while also increasing your credibility and job opportunities in the field.
Individuals should have a strong understanding of project management fundamentals, as well as prior experience leading and managing projects and working in a team setting.
Professional Development Units (PDUs) are a metric used to track the continuing education and professional development required for certification maintenance. PDUs are earned by participating in professional development activities such as education, giving back to the profession, and professional development activities.
A person must obtain a certain number of PDU credits every three years to keep their PMP certification valid. PDUs demonstrate their dedication to professional development and adaptability in the field.
HRD Corp Claimable Course is a dedicated programme that provides funding and support to registered employers for employee retraining and upskilling in accordance with operational and business requirements. To apply for this course under the HRD Corp programme, please fill out the form above, and our personnel will contact you personally.
To make a claim, your company must first be registered with HRD Corp and have contributed. After the training is completed, your company must submit a claim form to HRD Corp along with supporting documentation. There is no need to pay anything up front. HRD Corp will then process the claim and, if approved, reimburse you.
Our personnel will walk you through the entire claim application process from beginning to end.
Following your registration, our personnel will contact you to provide consultation, advice, and feedback. You can get in touch with the person in charge, or you can reach us at info@newhorizons.my. We are always happy to help.
