PMP (Project Management Professional) Bootcamp

Project Management Professional® certification established by the Project Management Institute, is one of the most valued and respected credentials in project management.  In today’s intensely competitive workplace, the PMP certification sets the standard and quickly highlights your ability and experience. The PMP credential is specifically designed to be an unbiased endorsement of your experience, competence and ability in leading project teams.  If you’re a project manager with a minimum of 2-3 years of experience and you want to solidify your skills, stand out among your peers, as well as maximize your career security and earning potential, then attending our PMP Boot Camp is the right choice.  By earning the PMP Certification credential, you will demonstrate that you are dedicated to career excellence and are capable of performing at the highest level in the field of project management.

Benefits of PMP Certification

• Globally recognized and respected certification. With a 12% increase in PMP and CAPM® certifications every year, this is the industry standard for Project Managers.
• PMP certification recognizes your expertise in Project Management. PMP certification shows current and potential employers that you have a solid foundation of project management knowledge.
• You will be a member of one of the most prestigious professional groups. By attaining the PMP certification, your name will be included in the largest and most prestigious group of certified project management professionals.
• Better salary. Project Managers with PMP certification earn a higher salary than those who do not have the certification.
• Better job opportunities. Requirements for qualified Project Managers expected to increase in the future. This means the job market for PMP Certified managers will get better.
• Globally recognized by leading companies: The PMP certification is endorsed by leading companies. In fact, they encourage their Project Managers to have the PMP certification.

Prerequisites

• Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or the global equivalent)
• 7,500 hours leading and directing projects
• 35 hours of project management education

OR

• Four-year degree
• 4,500 hours leading and directing projects
• 35 hours of project management education

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Analyze project risks
• Close the project
• Develop project schedules, cost estimates, and budgets
• Execute project work
• Initiate a project
• Monitor and control project quality, staffing, and communications
• Monitor and control project risks and contracts
• Monitor and control project schedule and costs
• Monitor and control project work
• Plan project procurement
• Plan project quality, staffing, and communications
• Plan project work

In summary the key outcomes upon completion of this course will allow participants to be able to:

• Identify the ten knowledge areas
• Review the ten knowledge areas and the related project processes
• Describe the Project Management Professional credential exam process and format

Course Covers

When Project Management processes are grouped logically, they form Process Groups.     However, the rigor of implementation of the processes in these Process Groups vary according to the complexity and risk for the specific project. The processes in the Process Groups guide the project manager in application of project management knowledge and skills related to a project, in order to meet the project objectives.  The 5 Process Groups are:

Initiating: These processes help you define a new piece of work – either a complete new project or the phase you are about to begin. They ensure you have authority to proceed.

Planning: These processes help you define objectives and scope out the work to be done. They also encompass all the work around planning and scheduling tasks. Again, they can cover a complete project or just the phase you are working on right now. Or you might be closing one phase and planning the next in parallel.

Executing: You do these processes as you carry out your project tasks. This is the ‘delivery’ part of project management, where the main activity happens and you create the products.

Monitoring and Controlling: These processes let you track the work that is being done, review and report on it. They also cover what happens when you find out the project isn’t following the agreed plan, so change management falls into this Process Group. You’ll run these processes alongside those in the Executing Group (mainly, but alongside the other Groups too) so you monitor as you go.

Closing: Finally, these processes let you finalize all the tasks in the other Groups when you get to the point to close the project or phase.

Though the Process Groups appear to be discrete and laid out in a specific order, in practice they overlap and interact in several ways. Most processes are iterative and are repeated during the project.  

Next there are what are called Knowledge Areas:

• Project Integration Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Time Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Communications Management
• Project Risk Management
• Project Procurement Management
• Project Stakeholder Management.

Each Knowledge Area represents a complete area of specialization including jargon, tools, concepts and tasks. Depending on the project you’ll need to know more or less about each one – However, in order to achieve your PMP credential you’ll have to answer questions on each of them. The Knowledge Areas describe what a project manager needs to know, and the Process Groups describe what a project manager needs to do.