COURSE SYLLABUS
| 35 contact hours PMI, USA Authorized Advanced Project Management Course
Based on “Best International Practices” of Project Management and Aligned to PMBOK-Latest Version (Fourth Edition), the Course covers all the 42 Project Management Processes covering 9 Project Management Knowledge Areas which have been grouped in 5 PM Process Groups viz., Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing. The course also awards 35 globally recognized PDUs (Professional Development Units). |
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COURSE CONTENTS Introduction to the 'Guide to PMBOK-Latest Version-2008'
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COURSE DELIVERABLES Awareness of PMI Standards, Areas of Expertise. |
| Project Management Framework | |
| Project Management and Operations management Role of a project manager Learning importance of Organizational Process Assets and Enterprise Environmental Factors, PMO. |
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| Project Life Cycle and Organization | |
| Understanding Project Management Context. Learning Project Life Cycle, Importance of Project Stakeholders and Organizational Influences for successful management of the Projects. |
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| Global Standard for Project Management of a Project | |
| 42 Management Processes 5 Project Management Process Groups (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing), Interlinking of 42 PM Processes within 5 process Groups. Mapping 9 PM Knowledge Areas with 5 PM Process Groups |
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| Initiation Process Group | |
| Develop Project Charter | Charter Formulation |
| Identify Stakeholders | Trains on identifying project stakeholders, their assessment and classification. Development of Stakeholder Register and Stakeholder management Strategy. |
| Planning Process Group |
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| Collect Requirements | Develops capability to use 8 International Techniques of Collecting Requirements, including Group Creativity Techniques, QFD, Joint Application Development, and Prototyping. |
| Define Scope | Trains on how to develop Project Scope Statement. |
| Create WBS | Understanding of WBS, WBS Dictionary, and Scope baseline. |
| Examination Simulation Test (Interactive pattern) |
Project Management Knowledge Assessment and Refinement of Concepts learned during the day. |
| Planning Process Group (continued) | |
| Define Activities | Learning to decompose work packages into activities |
| Sequence Activities | Learning to decide project work flow, having regard to 3 major dependencies, milestones, leads and lags. |
| Estimate Activity Resources | How to estimate project resources |
| Estimate Activity Durations | Analogous, Parametric, Three-point estimation & other estimation techniques. Calculating Time Buffer and Confidence Level in duration estimates. |
| Develop Schedule |
Learning Schedule Network Analysis, Schedule Compression, Resource Leveling, CPM, PERT, Monte Carlo, Critical Chain Methods, etc. |
| Estimate Cots |
Learning to estimate Cost of Project Activities, including risk reserve and cost of quality. |
| Determine Project Budget | Learning to prepare Cost Base Line |
| Plan Quality | Quality Management Plan, Quality Metrics, QIP |
| Develop Human Resource Plan | Role Assignment Matrix, Project organization |
| Plan Communications | Communication Management Plan |
Examination Simulation Test (Interactive pattern) |
Project Management Knowledge Assessment and Refinement of Concepts learned during the day. |
| Plan Risk Management | Learning importance of an advance risk management plan and developing approach to risk identification, analysis, action planning, and risk monitoring and controlling. Extremely important and often ignored area. |
| Identify Risks | Identifying Risks by learning 7 Critical Techniques, including Checklist Analysis, Delphi, Ishikawa, and Influence Diagramming techniques. |
| Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis | Risk Probability and Impact Assessments, P& I Matrix, Categorization and Prioritization Risks. |
| Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis | Learning how to ‘Numerically Analyze’ the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives. |
| Plan Risk Response |
Learning to make risk response plans for project success, both for positive and negative risks. |
| Plan Procurements | Learning how organizations decide what to procure from vendor organizations: PSOW, Contract Type, and Procurement Management Plan Learning how to make Procurement Documents (R.F.P.). |
| Develop Project Management Plan | Learning how to integrate overall planning outputs to develop ‘A Realistic and Achievable Project Management Plan. |
Examination Simulation Test (Interactive pattern) |
Project Management Knowledge Assessment and Refinement of Concepts learned during the day. |
| Execution Processes | |
| Direct and Manage Project Execution | Learning how to coordinate people, resources, and Interfaces for successful project execution |
| Perform Quality Assurance | Learning what quality assurance activities should be done to ensure processes are deployed and improved. |
| Acquire Project Team | Learning to staff project |
| Develop Project Team | How to develop team members. Including Team-Building Principles and Practices, Ground Rules and importance of ‘soft skills’ |
| ManageProject Team | How to track performance, provide feedback, resolve issues, and manage changes to optimize performance. Conflict Resolution Techniques. |
| Information Distribution | Sending information as decided in communication plan, using techniques: Choice of media, Writing Style, Meeting Management, Presentation techniques, Facilitation techniques. Also using Interactive, Push, and Pull Methods. |
| Manage Stakeholder Expectations | Learning how to communicate and work with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing their issues. How to use Interpersonal and Management Techniques. |
| Conduct Procurements | Learning how to conduct/participate in bidder conference, Obtain/ make Offers/Proposals. For vendor organizations, it provides expertise on how to bid in a winning manner. Learning the art of negotiating and finalizing Contract. |
Examination Simulation Test (Interactive pattern) |
Project Management Knowledge Assessment and Refinement of Concepts learned during the day. |
| Monitoring & Controlling Process Group | |
| Monitor & Control Project Work | Learning how to measure project performance, conduct variance analysis. How to find causes of variances and design corrective and preventive actions. Learning how to recommend for approval of a corrective action with due evaluation and impact analysis. Understanding how to use ‘Configuration Management’, how to update plan and lessons learned. Understanding the process of reviewing and approving of all change requests, corrective and preventive actions. Understanding how to maintain sanctity of baselines |
| Integrated Change Control | Understanding importance of having an Integrated Change Control Board in the organization and its role right from inception through completion of the project. |
| Verify Scope |
Learning how to obtain formal acceptance of deliverables |
| Control Scope | Learning how to measure scope performance, identify corrective actions and manage changes to the scope. How to update project management plan and record lessons learned. |
| Schedule Control | Learning how to measure schedule performance, identify corrective actions and manage changes to the schedule. How again use schedule compression, Monte Carlo, Critical Chain, etc to recover schedule overruns. |
| Cost Control | Learning cost performance measurement techniques, including famous Earned value Management technique: PV, EV, AC, SV, SPI, CV, CPI, EAC, ETC, TCPI, etc. Learning how to develop ‘Forecast Reports’. Learning how to design corrective actions and manage changes to the costs. |
| Perform Quality Control | Learning quality control techniques, including Pareto, Ishikawa, Scatter diagram, and Control Chart, etc. |
| Monitor and Control Risks | Learning how to conduct risk re-assessment to measure performance in the area of risk management. Learning how to respond to a new risk or a risk that could not be settled by our action plan. How to conduct risk audit, document lessons learned. |
| Administer Procurements | Measuring effectiveness of risk response plans and taking necessary actions to ensure project success
Learning to manage the contract to fulfill contract SOW and other contract requirements. |
| Closing Process Group | |
| Close Procurements | How to successfully close contract, make formal acceptance and record lessons learned. |
| Close Project or Phase | How to successfully close project/phase, make formal acceptance and record lessons learned. |
| Professional Responsibility | |
| Balance Stakeholder Interests | Learning to deal with situations of diverse stake holder interests. |
| Enhance Individual Competence | How to continually improve one’s competence |
| Interact with Team and Stakeholders | Mastering art of dealing with team members and Stakeholders, contributing in knowledge |
| Contribute to Knowledge Base Ensure Integrity and Professionalism |
Management and observing personal and professional integrity. |
| Group Discussion on Course Learning and Setting up Action Plan for PMP Exam preparation and practice Time-table and Support Schedule. | |
| Examination Simulation Test (Interactive pattern) |
Project Management Knowledge Assessment and Refinement of Concepts learned during the day. |
| Course contents and the quality are in accordance with Project Management Body of Knowledge, Fourth Edition, PMI, USA. | |
