Business Skills Project Management
This course provides Project Managers with the knowledge and skills needed to master the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition and attain the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification. The PMP® credential is the most widely accepted project certification in the world and the framework on which it is based has set the standard for the project management profession for over 25 years. This course is intended to enhance a studentâs project experience with global terminology and the proven framework for leading and directing project teams and in delivering project results within the constraints of schedule, budget and resources. The Project Management Institute has modified the previous body of knowledge to consist of forty-nine project processes within five process groups and ten knowledge areas. This course will cover these processes in a logical, sequential, and effective way to quickly and effectively prepare learners for the PMP Certification Exam.
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Planning Project Activity Schedules - match processes in the Project Schedule Management knowledge area to their respective Process Groups
- recognize the role of each of the tools and techniques that are used to create the schedule management plan
- identify components of the schedule management plan
- recognize the inputs to the Define Activities process
- identify the tools and techniques of the Define Activities process
- choose the appropriate technique to define activities for a given project
- recognize the roles that the activity list and activity attributes play in project management
- recognize the roles that the milestone list plays in managing a project
- identify the purpose of sequencing project activities
- match the inputs to the Sequence Activities process to the types of information they supply when creating a project schedule network diagram
- recognize the nature of dependencies between project activities
- match types of precedence relationships with their descriptions
Determine Durations and the Schedule - identify the inputs to the Estimate Activity Durations process
- identify tools and techniques of the Estimate Activity Durations process
- recognize the parametric estimating formula
- recognize the three-point estimating types
- recognize examples of the outputs of the Estimate Activity Durations process
- identify the elements of a typical project schedule
- recognize the inputs of the Develop Schedule process
- identify tools and techniques used for the Develop Schedule process
- recognize characteristics of the critical path method
- determine start and finish dates for activities in a given network diagram
- identify techniques used to shorten overall schedule duration
- identify outputs of the Develop Schedule process
- perform a forward pass using the critical path method
- perform a backward pass using the critical path method
- identify the total float of each non-critical path
- identify the free float of each activity on a non-critical path
- identify the critical path and its characteristics
- recognize how to create a schedule network diagram from a table
Control Schedule - recognize if resource leveling is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario
- recognize if resource smoothing is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario
- recognize if crashing is the most appropriate schedule compression technique, given a scenario
- recognize if fast tracking is the most appropriate schedule compression technique, given a scenario
Planning and Acquiring Project Resources - identify the purpose of the Estimate Activity Resources process
- recognize examples of the inputs to Estimate Activity Resources process
- identify the tools and techniques you use for estimating activity resources
- recognize the principles of using the bottom-up estimating technique
- recognize the outputs of the Estimate Activity Resources process
- describe a resource breakdown structure, given a scenario
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