PMP Training Curriculum
Our PMP Certification Course in Chennai ensures providing PMP advanced course content which covers all the essential project management concepts from basic to advanced level prepared by our PMP professional expert trainers which is suitable for all the aspirants and covers all the industry related skills and techniques. Our Professional Experts from our PMP training in Chennai ensure to review our course content frequently to check whether it meets the industrial standard in order to turn our aspirants into the best project lead
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PMP Certification Course Content
Chapter 1: Creating a High-Performing Team
Section 1.1: Building a team
Assess and evaluate team members skills
Analyse and deduce project resource requirements
Continuously assess and refresh team skills to meet project needs
Continuous Learning and Knowledge Transfer
Section 1.2: Defining team ground rules
Communicate organizational principles with team and external stakeholders
Establish a conducive environment that fosters adherence to ground rules
Manage ground rule violations
Section 1.3: Negotiating project agreements
Analyse the boundaries of negotiations for agreement
Assess the priorities and determine the objectives
Verify if the objectives of the project agreement are met
Participate in agreement negotiations
Determine a negotiation strategy
Section 1.4: Empowering team members and stakeholders
Organize around team strengths
Support team task accountability
Determine and bestow levels of decision-making authority
Section 1.5: Training team members and stakeholders
Determine competencies and elements of training
Determine training options based on training needs
Allocate resources for training
Measure training outcomes
Section 1.6: Engaging and supporting virtual teams
Examine virtual team members needs
Investigate options for colocation
Implement appropriate communication channels for virtual team member engagement
Continually monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of virtual team member engagement
Section 1.7: Building shared understanding about a project
Identify the root cause of misunderstanding
Try to reach consensus among all parties
Support outcomes of parties’ agreement
Chapter 2: Starting the Project
Section 2.1: Determining the best project methodology, methods and practices for the work
Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude
Recommend project execution strategy (e.g., contracting, finance)
Recommend a project methodology/approach (i.e., predictive, agile, hybrid)
Use iterative, incremental practices throughout the project life cycle
Section 2.2: Planning and managing scope
Determine and prioritize requirements
Break down scope (e.g., WBS, backlog)
Monitor and validate scope
Section 2.3: Planning and managing budgets and resources
Estimate budgetary needs based on the scope of the project and lessons learned from past projects
Anticipate future budget challenges
Monitor budget variations and work with governance process to adjust asnecessary
Plan and manage resources
Section 2.4: Planning and managing your schedule
Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points)
Utilize benchmarks and historical data
Prepare schedule based on methodology
Measure ongoing progress based on methodology
Modify schedule, as needed, based on methodology
Coordinate with other projects and other operations
Section 2.5: Planning and managing quality of products/deliverables
Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
Continually survey project deliverable quality
Section 2.6: Planning and managing procurement
Define resource requirements and needs
Communicate resource requirements
Manage suppliers/contracts
Plan and manage procurement strategy
Develop a delivery solution
Section 2.7: Integrating project planning activities
Consolidate the project/phase plans
Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and continued businessvalue
Analyze the data collected
Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions
Determine critical information requirements
Section 2.8: Establishing a project governance structure
Determine appropriate governance for a project
Define escalation paths and thresholds
Section 2.9: Planning and managing project phase closure or transitions
Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase
Validate readiness for transition (e.g., to operations team or next phase)
Conclude activities to close out project or phase (e.g., final lessons learned,retrospective, procurement, financials, resources)
Chapter 3: Doing the Work
Section 3.1: How to assess and manage risks
Determine risk management options
Iteratively assess and prioritize risks
Section 3.1: How to assess and manage risks
Determine risk management options
Iteratively assess and prioritize risks
Section 3.2: How to focus on delivering business value
Assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally
Examine the business value throughout the project
Support the team to subdivide project tasks as necessary to find the minimumviable product
Section 3.3: Managing communications
Analyze communication needs of all stakeholders
Determine communication methods, channels, frequency, and level of detail for all stakeholders
Communicate project information and updates effectively
Confirm communication is understood and feedback is received
Section 3.4: Working with stakeholders
Analyze stakeholders (e.g., power interest grid, influence, impact)
Categorize stakeholders
Engage stakeholders by category
Develop, execute, and validate a strategy for stakeholder engagement
Section 3.5: Creating project artifacts
Determine the requirements (what, when, where, who, etc.) for managing theproject artifacts
Validate that the project information is kept up to date (i.e., version control) andaccessible to all stakeholders
Continually assess the effectiveness of the management of the project artifacts
Section 3.6: How to manage project changes
Recognize when a risk becomes an issue
Attack the issue with the optimal action to achieve project success
Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on the approach to resolve the issues
Section 3.7: How to manage projects issues
Anticipate and embrace the need for change (e.g., follow change managementpractices)
Determine strategy to handle change
Execute change management strategy according to the methodology
Determine a change response to move the project forward
Section 3.8: How to ensure knowledge transfer for project continuity
Discuss project responsibilities within team
Outline expectations for working environment
Confirm approach for knowledge transfers
Chapter 4: Keeping the Team on Track
Section 4.1: Leading a team
Set clear vision and mission
Support cultural differences
Value servant leadership and lead by example
Inspire, motivate, and influence team members/stakeholders
Analyse and understand team members/stakeholders influence
Maintain coordination between multiple project teams
Section 4.2: Supporting team performance
Set KPIs for team members and appraise their performance against those KPIs
Support and recognize team members growth and development
Verify performance improvements
Section 4.3: Addressing and removing impediments, obstacles and blockers
Determine and prioritize critical impediments for the team
Solve impediments, obstacles using organizational network
Reassess and continuously address the challenges faced by the team
Section 4.4: Managing conflict
Interpret the source and stage of conflict
Analyze the context for conflict
Evaluate or recommend the appropriate conflict resolution technique
Section 4.5: Collaborating with stakeholders
Evaluate engagement needs of the stakeholders
Optimize alignment between stakeholder needs, expectations and project objectives
Build trust and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives
Section 4.6: Mentoring stakeholders
Allocate the time to mentoring
Recognize and act on mentoring opportunities
Section 4.7: Using emotional intelligence to promote team performance
Analyze personality indicators and adjust to the emotional needs of key project stake holders
Chapter 5: Keeping the Business in Mind
Section5.1: Managing compliance requirements
Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and safety,regulatory compliance)
Classify compliance categories)
Determine potential threats to compliance)
Use methods to support compliance)
Analyze the consequences of noncompliance)
Determine necessary approach and action to address compliance needs)
Measure the extent to which the project is in compliance)
Section5.2: Evaluating and delivering project benefits and value
Investigate that benefits are identified
Document agreement on ownership for ongoing benefit realization
Verify measurement system is in place to track benefits
Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value
Appraise stakeholders of value gain progress
Section5.3: Evaluating and addressing internal and external business environment changes
Survey changes to external business environment (e.g., regulations, technology,geopolitical, market)
Assess and prioritize impact on project scope/backlog based on changes inexternal business environment
Recommend options for scope/backlog changes (e.g., schedule, cost changes)
Continually review external business environment for impacts on projectscope/backlog
Section5.4: Supporting organizational change
Assess organizational culture
Evaluate impact of organizational change to project and determine required actions
Evaluate impact of the project to the organization and determine required actions
Section5.5: Employing continuous process improvement
Continuously retrospect and gather lessons learned
Select areas of improvement
Identify and Implement action plan
Evaluate and measure progress based on action plan
Compare results with desired performance goals
Determine corrective actions
