Project Management Professional (PMP) Boot Camp

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1 Project Management Professional (PMP) Boot Camp According to the Project Management Institute, the world's leading association for the project management profession: "PMP Certification is the profession's most globally recognized and respected certification credential. The PMP designation following your name tells current and potential employers that you have a solid foundation of project management knowledge that can be readily applied in the workplace. To be eligible for the PMP certification, you must first meet specific education and experience requirements and agree to adhere to a code of professional conduct. The final step in becoming a PMP is passing a multiple-choice examination designed to objectively assess and measure your project management knowledge." Unitek Education's Advanced Project Management Skills for Success PMP boot camp is designed to provide the essential skills and knowledge needed to pass PMI's PMP exam. The PMP boot camp focuses on content from the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Fourth Edition (PMBOK Guide) and includes practice exercises and quizzes as well as study and test-taking tips using PMI terminology. To be eligible for the PMP certification, you must first meet specific education and experience requirements. The PMP boot camp does not include the PMP credential exam. PMP Boot camp Schedule and Hours {josaddphp:course_dates_query.php} Each day the PMP boot camp starts at 9:00 am sharp and continues until 5:00 pm. Who should attend this PMP course? If you are in IT where PMs skills are becoming a necessity or if you are interested in or planning to get your PMP certification, you must take this PMP course. The PMP certification is a great tool for: - Project Managers - IT Managers/Directors - Outsourcing Professionals - QA Managers/Directors - Application Development Managers/Directors - Business Analysts - Systems Analysts - Systems Architects

2 - Portfolio Managers - Training Managers Performance-Based Objectives Upon successful completion of this PMP course, students will: - Be highly knowledgeable on the PMBOK terms, definitions, processes, process groups, and knowledge areas. - Be ready to use the latest skills and best practices in world-wide use by PMs today. - Learn advanced soft skills training in leadership, negotiation, communication, conflict resolution, and ethics. - Understand how ethics and social responsibility are part of the PMâ s role, and how they can influence project success. - Be prepared to take and pass the PMP Exam. And be able to complete the following: - Initiate projects and create the Project Charter, Stakeholder Register, and related early planning documents. - Plan project work. - Develop project schedules. - Develop cost estimates and budgets. - Plan project quality, staffing, and communications. - Analyze risks and plan risk responses. - Plan project procurement. - Manage project procurement. - Execute project work. - Monitor and control project work, including: project schedule, project costs, project quality, staffing, communications, project risks, as well as contracts and procurement. - Close the project. Benefits of enrolling in the PMP Boot Camp - Understand how to use Earned Value Management to keep a project on-budget and on-time. - Clearly define the scope of a project and effectively manage it throughout the project's life.

3 - Learn the elements of a clear, concise project plan. - Minimize the risk of a project through proper risk response planning and risk management. - Learn the fundamentals of stakeholder analysis and how to manage stakeholder expectations. - Effectively communicate with project stakeholders at all levels. - Learn the five process groups and the 42 project processes that form the basis of the project management life cycle. - Understand the nine knowledge areas and how they apply to each of the process groups. - Learn how to properly fill out the Project Management Professional examination application. - Satisfy the educational requirement to sit for the PMP examination. - Understand the PMI terminology that will be used on the PMP examination. - See how Quality Planning can be used to ensure project success. - Know the subject matter that will be tested, the depth to which questions will be asked, and the emphasis that will be placed on each topic. - Understand how Return On Investment, Benefit Cost Ratio, Present Value, Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and related financial measurements are used as part of Project Selection - Minimize the risk of a project through proper risk response planning and risk management. - Learn how to construct a dependency schedule network. - Produce task time estimates that utilize best practices and are consistently reliable. - Memorize key terms, formulas, and graphs for the PMP examination. - Effectively translate previous project management experience to the PMI standards. - Understand how to determine and measure a project's Critical Path. - Develop a study plan to pass the PMP examination on the first try. PMP Boot Camp Topics Covered - The Project Management Framework - Define what a project is and what project management is. - Understand the 9 project management knowledge areas - Characteristics of a project life cycle. - Identify and define project stakeholders. - Organizational influences. - Environmental factors. - Highlight the skills required for a project manager. - Define the Project Manager's responsibilities. - Define the 5 process groups of project management.

4 - Project Integration Management - Highlight methods for project selection. - Define the elements and importance of the project charter. - Understand the creation and use of project scope statement. - Identify project constraints (aka, the â œtriple constraint.â ) - Define the project manager's role as integrator. - Develop a project management plan. - Define the execution of the project plan. - Understand the monitoring and controlling of project work. - Define integrated change control. - Conduct Project closure. - Project Scope Management NOTE: Requirements Gathering was added to the PMBOK standard, so I added Item 1 and 2 below: - Identify Requirements Gathering as key to effective scope management. - Develop a Requirements Document, Requirements Management Plan, and Requirements Traceability Matrix. - Emphasize the impact scope management has on project success. - Develop a scope management plan. - Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and WBS Dictionary. - Create prototypes as needed. - Understand the three components of the Scope Baseline. - Implement scope verification. - Perform Scope Control. - Project Time Management - Methods for developing a schedule. - Resource Planning. - Activity definition. - Activity sequencing.

5 - Developing network diagrams (PDM and ADM charts). - Critical Path Method (CPM) - Understanding the dependency types and how to use them in your project schedule. - Estimating activity duration and resources. - Developing a schedule management plan. - Perform Schedule Control. - Project Cost Management - Cost estimating through analogous estimating, bottom up estimating, parametric estimating and computerized estimating tools. - Earned value analysis. - Precision of estimates. - Project life cycle costing. - Cost budgeting. - Perform Cost control. - Project Quality Management - Responsibility for quality. - Impacts of poor quality. - Difference between quality assurance and quality control. - Tools used for quality planning. - Develop a quality management plan. - Implement quality assurance. - Perform Quality control through Cause and Effect diagrams, Pareto Charts, Control Charts and other Tools of Quality. - Project Human Resources Management - Roles and responsibilities for project manager, team members, project sponsor and management. - Organizational planning. - Create RACI Charts and other HR planning documents. - Acquire a project team. - Update staffing management plans.

6 - Team-building - Motivation theories and best practices. - Team performance assessments. - Leadership skills. - Constructive versus destructive team roles - Forms of power in project management. - Human resource constraints. - Conflict management and resolution. - Project Communication Management - Developing a communications management plan. - Information distribution. - Communication skills. - Listening skills. - Formal versus informal communication. - Communication channels. - Manage stakeholders. - Performance reporting. - Project Risk Management - Develop a risk management plan. - Techniques for identifying risks. - Create risk breakdown structure. - Create risk register. - Categorize risks. - Qualitative risk analysis. - Quantitative risk analysis. - Strategies for positive and negative risk. - Residual Risk and Secondary Risk. - Develop a risk response plan. - Risk response strategies. - Risk monitoring and control.

7 - Project Procurement Management - Procurement planning. - Make or buy decisions. - Statement of work. - Non-disclosure agreements. - Solicitation planning. - Soliciting seller responses. - Source selection. - Negotiation. - PMI recommendations / best practices toward procurement management. - Contract administration. - Procurement Audit. - Types of contract. - Relative risks of contract types on buyer versus seller. - Important contract clauses. - Contract change control. - Contract close-out. - Project Management Ethical Responsibility and Code of Conduct - Understand the components of PMIâ s Code of Ethics and Professional ConductÂ. - Core PMI Ethical principles. - Understand the changes to the PMP exam August 30, 2011 re: ethics-related questions. - Balance the interest of stakeholders. - Apply professional knowledge and judgment at all times, factoring ethics and social responsibility into your PM decisions. - Understand the role that ethics can play in project success, both short-term and long-term. - Do the right thing at all times. - Understand the particular importance of ethics in procurement management, as well as in all 9 knowledge areas such as HR management and Quality management. - Introduction and PMP Exam overview

8 - PMI application process. - Overview of the PMP Exam. - Exam-taking tools, techniques, tips and recommendations. Students will go over many exam practice questions and discuss solutions and rationale for correct answers. PMP Boot Camp Student Testimonials "DW was an excellent instructor. Probably the best I have ever had. We covered all the material, in just 4 days, the entire text book, cover to cover. He kept the subject matter, which would normally have been very dull, very interesting by having a lot of break out discussions. This helped to keep our full attention. He also was able to accomplish explaining things in a manner that I had a very good understanding throughout the class. I have a high opinion of Unitek if this is the quality of instructors that they use. I am very happy with my Account Manager's service. He is very personable, always very responsive and takes the time to answer any questions I have. I was pleased with the book that was used, a better interpretation of the PMBOK." S. Anderson, PMP class