PDU's Offerred

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Attend the Project Management Training session and get the PDU's (Professional Development Units) under Continuing Education Category for your PMP Maintenance. Please Contact for details.

How to Earn PDU's for PMP Maintenance?

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PDU's can be earned under the following Categories

A. Courses offered by PMI's R.E.P's or Chapters and Communities

B. Continuing Education

C. Self- Directed Learning

D. Creating New Project Management Knowledge

E. Volunteer Service

F. Work as a Practitioner

PMP Eligibility

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PMP Eligibility Requirement/Prerequisites

To qualify for the PMP you’ll need to meet the following eligibility requirements/prerequisites:

For Candidates with a Bachelor's Degree: 3 Years/36 months of consecutive Project Management experience 4500 hours of Project Management Experience- All hours must have been attained within 8 years of date of application and 35 Professional Development Units (PDUs)

For Candidates without a Bachelor's Degree: 5 Years/60 months of consecutive Project Management experience 7500 hours of Project Management Experience - All hours must have been attained within 8 years of date of application and 35 Professional Development Units (PDUs)

The PMP Exam

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PMP Exam

Test questions are broken down into the following process groups: Domain – Percentage of Questions :

Initiation - 13% Planning - 24% Executing - 30% Monitoring & Controlling - 25% Closing - 8%

Once your application is approved, the PMI allows you one year to take the exam. To be eligible for our money back guarantee you must take the exam within 60 days of completing our course. You may take the exam up to three (3) times during the eligibility period. Most exams are computer based and are administered at any Prometric Testing Center location. To register or learn more, please visit the Prometric website.

How to Prepare for PMP ?

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6 Easy steps to earn your PMP Certification

1. Review the PMP Handbook : We recommend downloading and reviewing the PMI PMP Handbook. You can also Register for free on the PMI Website for more information.

2.Verify Eligibility : There are specific education, experience, and project management study prerequisites that must be met to qualify for the PMP.

3.Take a PMP Prep Class: Taking a prep class ensures that you have the required 35 Professional Development Units (PDUs)/ Contact hours. A PMP Exam Preparation course teaches you the PMBOK ®Guide framework so that you are ready to take the test at the end of the course.

4. Submit PMP Application Form : The application form should be completed on the PMI website and once completed a test date can be scheduled.

5. Sign-up for a PMP Exam Date : Schedule a date for the PMP Exam after your application has been approved. Learn more about the exam below.

6. Pass the Test : You've now earned your PMP!(Now go ask your boss for a pay raise or update your resume and put "PMP" next to your name to get that job you always wanted!)

PM Course Details

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PMP Certification

This PMP Prep course will be conducted in 12 sessions of 1 hr each. There will be some exercises for home work at the end of each session so it would make 35 contact hours of mandatory project management education as required by PMI. This course is based on PMBOK 4^th edition.

1. Overview:

1) About PMI history

2) PMP Certification program & details

a) Eligibility criteria & the certification process (Application & audit process, Exam fees)

b) Exam structure (Topics covered, types of PMP questions)

c) Training approach (How to prepare)

3) PDC handbook, CCR handbook

2. Project Management Framework:

1) What is PMBOK and its purpose

2) Project Vs operations (PMBOK definitions)

3) Triple constraint

4) Value of Project Management

5) Project Manager’s role & areas of expertise of Project Manager and Project Team

6) Project Life cycle, Product Life cycle & Project Management Life cycle

7) Key Stakeholders

8) Organization structures

3. Project Management Process:

1) Product Oriented process & Project management process

2) IPECC

3) 9 Knowledge areas Vs 5 Project management process groups

4. Project Integration Management:

1) Project charter

2) Project Preliminary Scope statement

3) Project Selection Methods (PV, NPV, IRR, Payback period, BCR, Opportunity cost)

4) Project Plan or Project Management plan

5) Manage and control Project execution

6) Integrated Change control (CCB)

7) Project closeout

8) Integration Management (How to integrate all 9 KA’s Vs 5 process groups)

5. Project Scope Management:

1) Project scope planning (Scope Management Plan)

2) Scope Definition (Scope Statement)

3) Work Breakdown structure (WBS & WBS dictionary)

4) Scope Verification process

5) Scope Control

6. Project Time Management:

1) Activity Definition (Activity List)

2) Activity Sequencing

a) How to draw a PND using PDM

b) Calculate Float (slack), Total float, free float

c) Identify Critical Path using PND

d) GERT

e) Leads & Lags

3) Activity Duration Estimating (Effort estimate Vs Duration Estimate)

4) CPM (Forward pass & backward pass) & PERT

5) Crashing, Fast-tracking & Resource Leveling

6) Gantt Chart, Project calendar, Resource calendar, RAM/RACI, Resource Histogram

7. Project Cost Management:

1) Project Management fundamentals & types of cost

2) Depreciation (Straight Line, Accelerated), Sunk costs

3) Cost Estimating (Top-down, bottom-up, parametric)

4) Accuracy range of estimates (Order of magnitude, conceptual, definite and control)

5) Cost budgeting & Cost baseline

6) Cost control

7) Earned Value Management (EVM)

How to calculate PV, EV, AC, SPI, CPI, BAC, EAC, ETC, VAC, TCPI (including exercises)

8. Project Quality Management:

1) Quality Vs Grade

2) Quality Management, TQM, Quality policy, Gold plating

3) Quality Management process (QA, QC)

3) Quality Planning (Quality management plan)

4) Cost of Quality (COQ)

5) QA & Quality audits

6) QC (Fishbone diagram, Pareto chart, control charts, flow charts, Inspection, Sampling, run chart)

9. Project HR Management:

1) HR planning (Roles & Responsibilities, Authority, competency, RAM/RACI, etc)

2) Roles of Project sponsor, Team member, stakeholder, functional manager, Project manager

3) Staffing management plan

4) Acquiring Project Team

5) Develop Project Team (Team building, 5 Powers of PM, 7 leadership styles etc.)

6) Motivational Theories

7) Manage Project Team (Manage issues)

10. Project Communication Management:

1) Communication management (compliance, informance and branding type of communications)

2) Sender-Medium-Receiver

3) Communications planning (communication management plan)

4) Information distribution (forms of communication, communication methods & channels)

5) How to calculate communication channels

6) Performance reporting (Status reports, & other reports, Earned value)

7) Manage stakeholder’s communication

8) Project meetings

11. Project Risk Management:

1) Risk Vs Assumptions Vs constraints

2) Risk Management Plan

3) Risk Identification (Risk Register RR)

4) Qualitative Risk analysis (High, medium & low)

5) Quantitative Risk Analysis)

6) Expected value calculation (Decision tress, Monte Carlo simulation software)

7) Risk Response (Avoid, Mitigate, Transfer or Accept)

8) Secondary risks, Residual risks & Reserves (Management reserves & Contingency reserves)

9) Risk Monitoring and control.

12. Project Procurement Management:

1) Plan Procurements

2) Contract & Contract types

a) CR (Cost reimbursable): CPFF, CPPC, CPIF, CPAF

b) FFP (Firm Fixed Price): FPIF, FPEFA

c) T& M (Time and Material

3) SOW

4) Request Seller responses (RFP’s)

5) Select Sellers

6) Administer Contracts and contract closure

13. Professional Responsibility:

1) Professional Ethics

2) Individual Integrity

3) Contributing to PM knowledge base

4) PMI’s “Project Management Professional Code of Professional Conduct”

14. PMP Practice Exam:

1) Recap

2) PMP Examination, Types of questions, Tips for the exam

3) Practice Exam (200 questions)

Note: Every session includes practice questions/answers in order to clarify the PMBOK concepts & understanding for the preparation for PMP certification exam.

Deliverables:

PPT course slides
Quiz 1 to 20 (400+ questions & answers to be discussed in the class)
1000+ mock PMP Ques & Answers (for further practice)

(All the above will be uploaded in Webex as per participant’s email id, so they can download the same before the class)

35 contact hours certificate (Certificate will be sent via email, with digitized signature of the faculty. The signature is digitized based on Govt norms & NSDL norms)

Requirements:

Participants need to have 512 kbps internet with headphone & speakers

PM Training Contact

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I am PMP Certified and an Experienced Project Management Instructor with focus on developing the project management skills for the progressive professionals in their respective fields.

All forms of Training are provide - Self learning provided with adequate material, Live on-line Instructor-led Classes, Corporate Training, PMP,CAPM certification Training, PDU's provided for PMP Maintenance under Continuing Education Category C.

For further information, i can be reached at pmptraining99@gmail.com or Phone: 714 602 3574.