The Project Management Professional (PMP®) is the most important industry-recognized certification for project managers. Globally recognized and demanded, the PMP certification demonstrates to employers, clients and colleagues that a project manager possesses project management knowledge, experience and skills to bring projects to successful completion.
As the demand for skilled project managers is at a critically urgent level, practitioners who hold the PMP certification are well positioned to provide the professional skills necessary to lead project teams and achieve successful project results.
The PMP recognizes the competence of an individual to perform in the role of a project manager, specifically experience in leading and directing projects. Year after year, the PMP certification has garnered global recognition and commanded a higher salary for certified individuals over non-certified individuals.
I. Gain Knowledge in:
1: Adopt broad knowledge of three types (predictive, agile and hybrid) of projects, project management principles, tools, and techniques in performing daily project management tasks.
2: Learn and apply project management knowledge for planning and implementing familiar project daily tasks; and responding to conflict, change, risks, and problems.
3: Define, collect, and evaluate project management metrics and baselines to determine if the project is healthy or off-track.
4: Learn varieties of project management technical skills for performing daily tasks, deliver business value, and emergency responses.
5: Response to identified risks based on planned risk responses in the risk register, or escalate the risks to corresponding roles. Adopt effective change management to handle issues and change requests.
6: Use various monitoring and forecasting techniques to make generalisations and predictions.
7: Understand the roles and responsibilities of project management and work professionally according to project management plan and compliance requirements.
8: Sticking to approved project management plan, perform daily tasks to achieve committed project objectives according to relevant performance baselines.
9: Collaborate with team members producing deliverables with defined quality.
10: Work with others smoothly by applying knowledge of emotion intelligence and motivation theory, and use tools like team charter, working agreements, and ground rules with vision and mission.
11: Learning project management processes in different timing and environment, performing daily activities using relevant tools and techniques.
12: Applying communication skills for using appropriate communication tools, requirements, and frequency for effective oral and written communication. Also, preparing project reports, visual aids, and project artefacts for managing projects.
13: Use ICT applications of collaboration tools, mobile app like digital boards, planning pokers, and other visual tools for communication and managing information.
14: Use tools like critical path, earned value management, quality management tools, Kanban, burn-up / burn-down charts, risk probability impact matrix, etc. for supporting daily work.
II. Fulfill the PMI training requirements for application to take the PMP examination
