Project Management Professionals2023-03-14T07:49:52+00:00

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Project Management Professionals

Course and Certifications

Course and Certifications

The Key to Successful Project Management

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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:

  1. People: Recognizing you have the skills to effectively lead and motivate a project team throughout a project.
  2. Process: Using predictive, agile and hybrid approaches to determine which way of working is best for each project.
  3. Business Environment: Highlighting the success of a project and its impact on overall strategic organizational goals.

Course Objective

  • Understand and apply the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) Guide and the best practices and standards established by PMI.

  • Understand and apply the five project management process groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring, and Controlling, and Closing.

  • Understand and apply the following project management knowledge areas: Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Resource, Communication, Risk, and Procurement Management.

  • Recognize and apply the tools and techniques used in each process group and knowledge area.

  • Develop the knowledge and skills required to manage projects effectively and efficiently.

  • Recognize and put into practice the best practices for leading and motivating a project team.

Upcoming Training Dates

  • 10-14 April 2023 *Ramadan Promo

  • 15-19  May 2023
  • 19-23 June 2023
  • 10-14  July 2023

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Who should get certified:

  • Project Managers

  • Team Leaders

  • Project Coordinators and Assistants

  • Consultants

  • Professionals looking to advance their career in project management.

Prerequisites:

  • Have a secondary degree (high school diploma, associate degree, or the global equivalent) and at least 5 years of project management experience with 7,500 hours leading and directing projects and 35 hours of project management education, or

  • Have a 4-year degree and 3 years of project management experience with 4,500 hours leading and directing projects and 35 hours of project management education, or
  • Have experience in leading and managing projects.

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction2023-02-09T02:30:43+00:00
  • 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
Module 2: Introduction to Project Management2023-02-03T07:35:38+00:00
  • 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
Module 3: Project Management Context2023-02-03T07:34:52+00:00
  • 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
Module 4: Project Management Processes2023-02-03T07:34:08+00:00
  • 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
Module 5: Project Integration Management2023-02-03T07:33:28+00:00
  • 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
Module 6: Project Scope Management2023-02-03T07:32:46+00:00
  • 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
Module 7: Project Time Management2023-02-03T07:31:56+00:00
  • 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
Module 8: Project Cost Management2023-02-03T07:31:14+00:00
  • 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
Module 9: Project Quality Management2023-02-03T07:30:33+00:00
  • 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
Module 10: Project Human Resource Management2023-02-09T02:31:23+00:00
  • 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
Module 11: Project Communications Management2023-02-03T07:28:43+00:00
  • 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
Module 12: Project Risk Management2023-02-03T07:27:51+00:00
  • 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
Module 13: Project Procurement Management2023-02-03T07:26:50+00:00
  • 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
Module 14: Project Stakeholder Management2023-02-03T07:00:31+00:00
  • 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
Module 15: Professional Responsibility2023-02-03T06:59:41+00:00
  • 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)

Exam and Certification

Exam and Certification

1. What are the benefits of the PMP certification?

The PMP certification validates individuals’ project management knowledge and skills, establishes a standard for project management professionals by increasing project management credibility, and encourages the use of best practices.

2. What are the primary objectives of the PMP exam?

The PMP exam focuses on three domains:

People – emphasizing the soft skills needed to lead a project team effectively in today’s changing environment.

Process – enhancing the technical aspects of project management success.

Business Environment – highlighting the connection between projects and corporate strategy.

Domain Percentage of Items on Test
People 42%
Process 50%
Business Environment 8%
Total 100%

3. What is the format of the PMP exam?

The PMP exam is computer-based and consists of 180 multiple choices, multiple responses, matching, hot area and limited fill-in-the-blank questions. The exam has a time limit of 230 minutes.

Exam Details PMP
About To assess the knowledge and skills of project managers
Exam Format Multiple choice, multiple responses, matching, hot area, and limited fill-in-the-blank
Question Format Based on case studies and scenarios
Number of Questions 180
Passing Score 61%
Test Duration 230  minutes

 

4. What are the topics covered on the PMP exam?

As described in the PMBOK Guide, the PMP exam covers five process groups (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing) and nine knowledge areas (Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Resource, Communication, Risk, and Procurement).

5. What is the passing score for the PMP exam?

The exam has a passing score of 61%.

6. How often is the PMP exam offered?

The PMP exam is offered every month at our exam center.

7. Is this PMP examination accredited?

Yes, PMP certification is recognised by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and adheres to the ISO 17024 international standard.

8.How difficult is the PMP examination?

The PMP exam is challenging, but not impossible to pass. Candidates should have a solid understanding of project management concepts as well as best practices in a real-world scenario.

9.Can I retake the PMP exam more than once?

Yes, you can retake the exam three times within a year; after that, you must wait a year to retake it.

10. Do I have to pay to retake the PMP exam?

Yes, there is an additional fee for retaking the exam.

11. How long does the PMP certification last?

After passing the certification exam, your PMP certification is valid for three years.

12. Why the PMP certification expires after three years?

The PMP certification expires after three years because PMI is constantly developing new tools, techniques, and technologies to stay current with the project management industry and best practices.

This will ensure that PMP certified professionals stay current with the latest technology and skills, as well as participate in professional development activities, to maintain the relevance of their level of expertise.

13. How to maintain the PMP certification?

An individual must earn 60 Professional Development Units (PDUs) over the course of three years to maintain the PMP certification. PDUs must be reported to PMI through the online certification system.

14. How often do I need to renew my PMP certification?

Your PMP certification must be renewed every three years by earning 60 PDUs as specified by PMI.

15. How do I schedule or book for my examination?

You can schedule the exam with our trainer at any time that is convenient for you.

16. Where will the examination be held?

The examination will be held at our training center, Peoplelogy Group in Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur.

17. How do I get more information about the examination?

During the class, our trainer will go over the exam details, including fees and the exam outline. You can also get more information by filling out the form, and one of our representatives will contact you.

Corporate Benefits

By upskilling your employees in PMP training, you can:

  • Enhance project management processes by implementing best practices and standards.
  • Improve communication and collaboration with project stakeholders, resulting in better alignment and buy-in for the project.
  • Strengthen your capability to lead and team performance for better project outcomes.

  • Increase your industry credibility and recognition by demonstrating your commitment to professional development and knowledge of industry standards.

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:

  1. Malaysian citizens or permanent residents
  2. Employed in a company that contributes to HRD Corp (employer with 10 or more Malaysian employees, or employers from specific sectors)
  3. Registered with the HRD Corp portal and have an activated account
  4. Have not attended the same training program within the last 12 months
  5. 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!

Testimonials

Testimonials

Excellent Training Centre! 

The PMP training program was a game changer for my career. I learned valuable skills and strategies that have helped me take my project management to the next level. I’m more confident, effective, and efficient in my role thanks to this program.

Ikhwan Khairun
Project Manager

A Life-Changing Experience! 

It was a comprehensive, educational, and entertaining experience. I was able to learn the best project management practices and techniques, and I have already seen an improvement in my projects since completing the program.

Aniq Syazwan shah
Project Coordinator

Fun and Informative Training! 

I learned innovative approaches and methodologies that have helped me deliver projects with greater success and efficiency, as well as a new perspective on project management. I would strongly recommend this course to anyone looking to improve their project management skills.

Nur Aida Shamsulhuda
Project Manager

FAQs

FAQs

1.Why should I get certified in PMP?2023-02-07T03:30:55+00:00

Obtaining the PMP certification can demonstrate your dedication to project management while also increasing your credibility and job opportunities in the field.

 

2. What fundamental knowledge and skills must I have prior to enrolling in PMP?2023-02-07T03:32:33+00:00

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.

3. What is PDU?2023-02-07T03:32:57+00:00

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.

4. What is PDU in PMP certification?2023-02-07T03:33:33+00:00

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.

5. What is HRD Corp claimable course and how do I apply?2023-02-07T03:34:07+00:00

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.

6. How to claim training under HRD Corp?2023-02-07T03:34:34+00:00

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.

7. How do I get in touch to learn more about the program?2023-02-07T03:34:56+00:00

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.

Why Choose us

Reputable training facility with over 20 years of experience.

Experienced and knowledgeable instructors

High-quality, relevant, and up-to-date training materials

Convenient training that fits your hectic schedule

Good value for money that is worth the investment

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