Fast Track CAPM® Certification
CLASS LENGTH 4 Days
CLASS HOURS 8:30am – 6:00pm
COURSE FEE : $ 1695
COURSE OBJECTIVE
This course prepares a Project Manager to learn skills in managing a project using generally accepted best practices based on PMI’s PMBOK standards.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course emphasizes a structured approach to project management to ensure a well-planned project whose scope is managed, risks assessed and mitigated. This course is aligned with the processes described in Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. At the conclusion of the course, participants will understand the concepts of the project life cycle, statement of work, work breakdown structure, project schedule, cost budgeting, and risk management plan.
HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT
By participating in the complete program you will have developed sufficient knowledge and skills to be able to independently plan, organize, and manage projects of various sizes. You can immediately use the techniques and artifacts developed and / or provided in the class.
COURSE MATERIAL
Each participant will receive a complete set of training notes and handouts that will serve as information references.
COURSE CONTENTS
- Introduction
- What is a Project and Project Management?
- Introduction to PMBOK’s five Process Groups and nine Knowledge Areas
- Project Life Cycle and Project Management Process Groups
- Understanding triple constraints
- Initiating a sample classroom project
- Stakeholders Management
- People involved in the project and their roles
- What should a Project Manager be skilled in?
- Bill of rights!
- Configuration Management
- How to manage changes
- Managing Scope
- Creating Requirement Specifications – what and why
- Creating WBS and the scope baseline
- Hands on: Create a WBS
- Time Management
- Estimation of effort and duration – Wide Band Delphi, Expert Judgment
- Sequencing activities and creating a schedule, using Critical Path
- Managing schedule baseline
- Hands on: Create a schedule
- Cost Management
- Cost estimating and budgeting
- Cost control issues
- Risk Management
- Risk Planning and Identification
- Risk Analysis methods and response mechanisms
- Quality
- Why plan for Quality?
- How to perform Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Test Management, testing types, methods, and defect management
- Human Resource
- Planning for Human Resources
- Understanding people – Organizational theories
- Managing teams
- Communication Management
- Communication and people skills
- RAM charts, conducting meetings, information distribution
- Performance reports, and who gets it
- Procurement Management for managing contracts
- Deciding what to buy / rent / lease
- Creating the tender documents, contract types
- Selecting Vendors and administering the contract
- Closing the contract
- Integration – putting it all together
- Developing a cohesive Project Management Plan
- Project Monitoring and Control
- Closing a Project
- Hands on: Create a Project Management Plan
