Course Overview
Your ability as a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management—both on the job and through professional certification—is becoming the standard to compete in today's fast-paced and highly technical workplace. This course expands upon the basic concepts of project management you discovered in the Project Management Fundamentals course and covers in-depth the essential elements of managing a successful project. Focusing on the generally accepted practices of project management recognized by the Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI®), this course offers you a standards-based approach to successful project management across application areas and industries.

Audience
This course is designed for experienced project managers who desire to increase their project management skills and apply a standards-based approach to project management.

Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following or have equivalent knowledge:

	Project Management Fundamentals
	Microsoft Project 2003

Benefits to You
You will apply the generally accepted project management best practices recognized by the PMI® to successfully manage projects. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

	initiate a project.
	define project scope.
	develop schedule and cost performance baselines for a project.
	plan project quality, staffing, and communications.
	analyze project risks.
	define project procurement requirements.
	execute the project.
	control the project.
	close the project.

Course Outline

Day 1

• PMP certification value
• PMI, about
• Exam qualification & application
• Exam context
• PMBOK Guide intro
• Project integration
• Process groups - through ‘Activity Definition Process’
• Quiz
• Project Planning Process Group including:
• Scope Planning
• Scope Definition
• Create WBS
• Activity Definition

Quiz

Day 2
Project Planning Process Group including

• Activity Sequencing
• Activity Resource Estimating
• Activity Duration Estimating
• Schedule Development
• Cost Estimating
• Cost Budgeting
• Quality Planning
• Human Resources Planning
• Communications Planning
• Risk Management Planning
• Risk Identification.

Quiz

Day 3
Project Planning Process Group including (Cont’d)

• Risk Qualitative Analysis
• Risk Quantitative Analysis
• Risk Response Planning
• Plan Purchases and Acquisitions
• Plan Contracting and Project Plan Development

Project Executing Process Group including

• Direct and Manage Project Execution
• Perform Quality Assurance
• Acquire Project Team
• Develop Project Team
• Information Distribution
• Request Seller Responses
• Select Sellers

Quiz

Day 4             
Project Monitoring and Controlling Process Group including

• Monitor and Control Project Work
• Integrated Change Control
• Scope Control
• Scope Verification
• Schedule Control
• Cost Control
• Perform Quality Control
• Performance Reporting

Quiz

Day 5
Project Monitoring and Controlling Process Group including:

• Risk Monitoring and Control and Contract Administration.

Project Closing Process Group including

• Close Project
• Contract Closure

Professional & Social Responsibility

Practice exam, 200 questions

Training Schedule

	8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Standard class hours
	4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Optional: One-on-One with the Instructor