PMP-Project Management Professional

February-March 2023

About PMP Course

The Project Management Institute [PMI] publishes the new version at regular interval periods. And, the latest version is PMBOK 7th Edition got released in 2021 ] [PMBOK or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge is the defacto standard on project management, that conforms to American National Standard Institute (ANSI) standard and is the GOLD standard in project management.] The following updates have been done in the PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition

The domains are focusing on overall outcomes instead of just the processes and techniques used within a project’s executions. The importance of the quality of a project is emphasized.

PMP Course Content

Domain 1:- People (42%)

Task 1 - Manage conflicts

• Interpret source and stage of a conflict
• Analyze context of the conflict
• Evaluate/reconcile/recommend appropriate conflict solution resolution

Task 2- Lead a team

• Set clear mission and vision
• Support inclusion and diversity
• Value servant leadership
• Determine the appropriate leadership style
• Inspire, motivate, and influence team members
• Analyze team members and stakeholders’ influence
• Distinguish various options to lead various team members

Task 3 - Support team performance

• Appraise team member’s performance against key performance indicators
• Support and recognize team member’s growth and development
• Determine an appropriate feedback approach
• Verify performance improvements

Task 4 - Empower team members and stakeholders

• Organize team strengths
• Support team task accountability
• Evaluate demonstration of task accountability
• Determine and bestow levels of decision-making authority

Task 5 - Ensure team members are adequately trained

• Determine required competencies and elements of training
• Determine training options based on training needs
• Allocate resources for training
• Measure training outcomes

Task 6 - Build a team

• Appraise stakeholder skills
• Deduce project resource requirements
• Continuously assess and refresh team skills to meet project needs
• Maintain team and knowledge transfer

Task 7 - Address and remove impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team

• Determine critical impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
• Prioritize critical impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
• Use the network to implement solutions to remove impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
• Re-assess continually to ensure impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team are being addressed

Task 8 - Negotiate project agreements

• Analyze the bounds of the negotiations for an agreement
• Assess priorities and determine the ultimate objective
• Verify objectives of the project agreement is met
• Participate in agreement negotiations
• Determine a negotiation strategy

Task 9 - Collaborate with stakeholders

• Evaluate engagement needs for stakeholders
• Optimize alignment between stakeholder needs, expectations, and project objectives
• Build trust and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives

Task 10 - Build a shared understanding

• Break down the situation to identify the root cause of a misunderstanding
• Survey all necessary parties to reach a consensus
• Support outcome of parties agreement
• Investigate potential misunderstandings

Task 11 - Engage and support virtual teams

• Examine virtual team member needs
• Investigate alternatives for virtual team member engagement
• Implement options for virtual team member engagement
• Continually evaluate the effectiveness of virtual team member engagement

Task 12 - Define team ground rules

• Communicate organizational principles with team and external stakeholders
• Establish an environment that fosters adherence to the ground rules
• Manage and rectify ground-rule violations

Task 13 - Mentor relevant stakeholders

• Allocate the time to mentoring
• Recognize and act on mentoring opportunities

Task 14 - Promote team performance through the application of emotional intelligence

• Assess behaviour through the use of personality indicators
• Analyze personality indicators and adjust to the emotional needs of key project stakeholders

Domain 2 - Process (50%)

Task 1 - Execute project with the urgency required to deliver 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 minimum viable product

Task 2 - Manage 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

Task 3 - Assess and manage risks

• Determine risk management options
• Iteratively assess and prioritize risks

Task 4 - Engage stakeholders

• Analyze stakeholders
• Categorize stakeholders
• Engage stakeholders by category
• Develop, execute, and validate a strategy for stakeholder engagement

Task 5 - Plan and manage budget 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 as necessary
• Plan and manage resources

Task 6 - Plan and manage schedule

• Estimate project tasks
• Utilize benchmarks and historical data
• Prepare schedule based on the methodology
• Measure ongoing progress based on the methodology
• Modify schedule, as needed, based on the methodology
• Coordinate with other projects and other operations

Task 7 - Plan and manage the quality of products/deliverables

• Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
• Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
• Continually survey project deliverable quality

Task 8 - Plan and manage scope

• Determine and prioritize requirements
• Break down scope
• Monitor and validate scope

Task 9 - Integrate project planning activities

• Consolidate the project/phase plans
• Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and continued business value
• Analyze the data collected
• Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions
• Determine critical information requirements

Task 10 - Manage project changes

• Anticipate and embrace the need for change
• Determine a strategy to handle change
• Execute change management strategy according to the methodology
• Determine a change response to move the project forward

Task 11 - Plan and manage procurement

• Define resource requirements and needs
• Communicate resource requirements
• Manage suppliers/contracts
• Plan and manage procurement strategy
• Develop a delivery solution

Task 12 - Manage project artefacts

• Determine the requirements for managing the project artefacts
• Validate that the project information is kept up to date and accessible to all stakeholders
• Continually assess the effectiveness of the management of the project artefacts

Task 13 - Determine appropriate project methodology/methods and practices

• Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude
• Recommend project execution strategy
• Recommend a project methodology/approach
• Use iterative, incremental practices throughout the project life cycle

Task 14 - Establish a project governance structure

• Determine appropriate governance for a project

Task 15 - Manage project issues

• 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

Task 16 - Ensure knowledge transfer for project continuity

• Discuss project responsibilities within the team
• Outline expectations for the working environment
• Confirm approach for knowledge transfers

Task 17 - Plan and manage project/phase closure or transitions

• Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase
• Validate readiness for transition
• Conclude activities to close out project or phase

Domain 3 - Business Environment (8%)

Task 1 - Plan and manage project compliance

• Confirm project compliance requirements
• 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

Task 2 - Evaluate and deliver 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 the value
• Appraise stakeholders of value gain progress

Task 3 - Evaluate and address external business environment changes for impact on the scope

• Survey changes to the external business environment
• Assess and prioritize impact on project scope/backlog based on changes in the external business environment
• Recommend options for scope/backlog changes
• Continually review external business environment for impacts on project scope/backlog

Task 4 - Support organizational change

• Assess organizational culture
• Evaluate the impact of organizational change to project and determine required actions
• Evaluate the impact of the project on the organization and determine required actions