Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification is the gold standard of project management certification recognised and demanded by organisations worldwide, the PMP® validates your competence to perform in the role of a project manager, leading and directing projects and teams. The project management framework and book of knowledge can help project managers to develop competencies to effectively plan a project, execute the defined activities as per the plan, timely monitoring, proactively controlling and an appropriate closure of the project or phase.
Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam preparation training course overview
Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam preparation training course designed by KPMG in India includes:
Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam preparation training course contents
- Introduction to PMI®
- PMP® Certification advantages
- PMP® certification process and fees related information
- PMP® Application procedure and instructions
- PMP® examination pattern
- PMP® examination – Tips on how to prepare and take the examination (this theme will be reiterated throughout the course)
- PMP® - Fulfilling the CCR requirements
- Familiarisation with course outline
- Familiarisation with the protocols and timings
- Expectation setting and clarifications
- Introductory quiz – to assess the current level of familiarisation of the participants with PMBOK® concepts and assess the gaps.
- Structure of PMBOK®
- Description of five process groups in the project lifecycle and their interactions
- What are projects?
- Projects vs. operations
- Project management
- Constraints and assumptions
- The concept of progressive elaboration and rolling wave planning
- Related endeavours - program management and portfolio management
- Organisational project management
- The concept of project management office (PMO) and types of PMO
- Tailoring PM methodology
- Description of multiple ways in a project can arise
- Project management business documents – Business Case and Benefits Management Plan
- Benefits management in project lifecycle
- Different lifecycle models - predictive, iterative, incremental & agile
- The agile mindset – values & principles
- Various agile approaches
- When to use agile
- Transitioning to agile
- Mixing agile approaches
- Agile events – iteration planning, daily stand-ups, iteration review, retrospective
- Scrum roles - product owner, scrum master, agile team
- Time boxing
- Agile triple constraint theorem
- Varying types of project organisational structures – functional, matrix and projectized – their advantages and disadvantages
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organisational process asset
- The role of project manager
- PMI talent triangle
- Introductory quiz – project management context.
- The role of integration management in project execution
- Project charter – its characteristics
- Project management plan development
- Managing project knowledge - lessons learned register
- PMIS – its role in effective project management
- Directing and managing project work
- Monitoring and controlling project work
- Monitoring in agile - Kanban board, WIP limits, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)
- Performing integrated change control
- How to manage changes in a project?
- Closing a project (or a phase)
- Final report preparation
- Considerations for agile
- Quiz – project integration management.
- Project scope vs. product scope and their interrelationships
- Importance of scope management plan in the project
- Collect requirements process
- Requirement gathering techniques
- Requirement traceability matrix
- Product vision
- Product backlog
- Product roadmap
- Epics/Feature/Story, story cards, Definition of Done (DoD)
- Requirement prioritization
- Backlog grooming
- Project scope statement – how to prepare and update?
- WBS – its key role in project management
- Creating and managing WBS
- Validate scope process
- Control scope process
- Considerations for agile
- Quiz – project scope management.
- Plan schedule management process
- Defining activities
- Sequencing activities - precedence diagramming method
- Multiple types of dependencies across activities
- Estimating activity duration process
- Various duration estimating procedures – top-down, bottom-up, analogous, parametric, sprint planning meeting etc.
- The concept of contingency in schedule management
- Agile estimation – relative sizing and story points
- T-shirt sizing, planning poker
- Develop schedule process
- The importance of calendars in the scheduling process
- The importance of critical path in project management
- Critical path computation and explanation of its characteristics
- Application of techniques like fast tracking, crashing, resource optimisation, PERT etc. in schedule development
- Use of modeling techniques in scheduling
- Minimum viable product (MVP)
- Agile release planning
- Velocity
- Schedule baseline
- Control schedule process
- Burn-up and burn-down charts
- Considerations for agile
- Quiz – project schedule management.
- Project lifecycle costing vs. product lifecycle costing
- Cost management plan and its use in cost control
- Cost estimation techniques - analogous, parametric and bottom-up methods
- Determine budget process
- Cost baseline and its management
- Control costs process
- Earned value technique
- Cost and schedule variances/performance indices and their use in forecasting
- Considerations for agile
- Quiz – project cost management.
- Current themes in quality management
- Plan quality process - project quality management plan
- Manage quality process
- Control quality process
- Quality management tools – control charts, cause and effect diagrams, stratification, checklists, check sheet, histograms, scatter diagrams etc.
- Cost of quality/cost of non-quality concepts
- Agile common execution practices - continuous integration, test driven development, using spikes, pair programming, refactoring, automated testing
- Quiz – project quality management.
- Developing resource management plan
- Organisational planning & structures
- Responsibility assignment matrix and RACI charts
- Team charter
- Estimating activity resources
- Acquire resources process
- Managing virtual teams in a project environment
- Building effective project teams
- Develop team process
- Importance of trainings in project team development
- Delegation for effective management
- Building a high-performing team
- Multiple stages of team development – Tuckman model
- Managing project team
- Interpersonal skills – influencing, facilitating, leadership, motivation etc.
- Empowering team - servant leadership
- Servant leader responsibilities
- Role of project manager in agile
- Agile teams
- Agile roles
- Emotional intelligence
- Sources of conflicts in project
- Conflict resolution styles
- Agile considerations
- Quiz – project resource management.
- Communications requirements analysis in the Project environment
- Communication channels in a project
- Developing communications management plan
- Sender receiver models in the project environment
- Manage communications process
- Communication methods – push, pull and interactive
- Monitor communications Process
- Reporting performance
- Obstacles in cross-cultural communication
- Information radiators
- Quiz – project communications management.
- Risk management cycle in a project environment
- Plan risk management process
- Risk management plan contents
- Types of risks which can impact a project
- Risk identification facilitators – brainstorming, Delphi techniques, SWOT analysis, documentation review, checklist analysis etc.
- Setting up risk register
- Risk report
- Qualitative risk analysis
- Probability impact matrix and risk profile
- Quantitative risk analysis
- Calculating EMV (expected monetary value)
- Use of simulation techniques
- Application of decision tree analysis
- Plan risk responses process
- Strategies of risk response for positive and negative risks
- Different types of risks – primary risks, secondary risks, residual risks etc.
- Implementing risk responses
- Monitor risks process - risk audits and reserve analysis
- Agile considerations
- Quiz – project risk management.
- Plan procurements
- Make or buy analysis
- Major types of contracts – including FFP, cost plus, T&M and their variations
- Risks associated with various types of contracts
- Procurement documents - procurement SOW, bid documents, procurement strategy
- Conduct procurements process
- Source selection criteria to analyze vendor responses
- Source selection process
- Bidder conferences
- Use of independent estimates
- Contract negotiations process
- Contracts – their legal implications
- Control procurements process
- Contract change - how to manage them more effectively
- Procurement audit and inspections
- Claims administration processes
- Discharge of contracts
- Agile considerations
- Quiz – project procurement management.
- Stakeholders in project and their importance
- Identifying stakeholders
- Conducting stakeholder analysis – power-interest grid
- Creating the stakeholder register
- Plan stakeholder engagement
- Stakeholder engagement levels
- Developing stakeholder engagement plan
- Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
- Manage stakeholder engagement process
- Use of interpersonal skills in stakeholder engagement
- Monitoring stakeholder engagement
- Monitoring effectiveness of stakeholder engagement
- Adjusting strategies and engagement modes
- Considerations in agile
- Quiz: stakeholder management.
- PM’s area of responsibility – profession, project, stakeholders and society
- Core values – responsibility, respect, fairness and honesty
- Other themes
Who should attend?
Pre-requisites
To apply for PMP® certification candidates must meet following criteria:
- 35 contact hours of formal project management education
- Project management experience
- Bachelor’s degree - minimum 3 years/36 months unique non-overlapping professional project management experience
- Secondary degree/high school diploma/associate’s degree - minimum 5 years/60 months unique non-overlapping professional project management experience.
Note: KPMG in India reserves the right to reject nominations, without notification.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Q1: Which edition of PMBOK® is PMP® certification training aligned to?
A: PMP® examination is based on PMP® exam content outline (ECO) and not PMBOK®. Our training is aligned to the latest ECO which came into effect in Jan 2021. PMBOK® is one of the many references for PMP® exam. With extensive analysis we put together our course material to align with the ECO. Both PMBOK® 6th and 7th editions were referenced in the development of course material.
Q2: What is the duration of the certification training?
A: It is a four-day PMP® classroom/live virtual preparation programme or 36 hours during live virtual sessions.
Q3: Will KPMG in India provide PMP® certification?
A: No, but KPMG in India will award 35 contact hours certificate to the participants upon completion of training requirements which is a pre-requisite to apply for PMP® certification.
PMP® certification is offered by Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI), the accrediting body for PMP® certification.
Q4: What are the prerequisites for the PMP® exam preparation training?
A: There are no prerequisites for this training. Anyone planning to take up the PMP® certification would immensely benefit from it or even someone looking to build up knowledge in project management may enrol for this programme.
Q5: Where can learn more about PMP® certification?
A: PMP® handbook, downloadable from PMI’s website. The handbook provides information on all testing modalities, fees, policies, and procedures for obtaining and maintaining the PMP® certification.
PMI, PMP and PMBOK are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
