Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 52 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Sorin Dumitrascu
Certificate
- Available
- *The delivery and distribution of the certificate are subject to the policies and arrangements of the course provider.
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Course Overview
Project Management Professional Certification Program (PMI-PMP)
The Plan and Acquire Resources (PMI - PMP) is course 17 of 28 of the Project Management Professional Certification Program (PMI-PMP).
Unless you plan to do all the work on your project yourself, you're going to need to put a team together. That's not as easy as it sounds. You have to have people with the right mix of skills and expertise to make up a high- performing team.
You will need to be able to identify and acquire all the resources you'll need for project success. In this course, you'll learn how to develop a resource management plan.
You'll also learn best practices for estimating and acquiring necessary resources, developing and managing the project team, and optimizing resources throughout the project.
1. Project Resource Management Overview
2. Inputs to Plan Resource Management
3. Plan Resource Management Tools and Techniques
4. RACI Charts
5. Outputs of Plan Resource Management
6. The Estimate Activity Resources Process
7. Inputs to Estimate Activity Resources
8. Tools and Techniques to Estimate Activity Resources
9. The Bottom-up Estimating Technique
10. Estimate Activity Resources Outputs
11. The Resource Breakdown Structure
12. Inputs to Acquire Resources
13. Tools and Techniques to Acquire Resources
14. Negotiating to Acquire Resources
15. Outputs of Acquire Resources
16. Exercise: Planning Resources for Your Project
That’s it! Now go ahead and push that “Take this course” button, and see you on the inside!
Course Content
- 1 section(s)
- 36 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Plan and Acquire Resources (PMI - PMP)
What You’ll Learn
- Recognize the role of the project manager in project resource management activities
- Understand examples of inputs to the Plan Resource Management process
- Identify the tools and techniques of the Plan Resource Management process
- Describe the components of a RACI chart
- Recognize examples of information that should be included in the roles and responsibilities section of a resource management plan
- Identify the purpose of the Estimate Activity Resources process
- Recognize examples of the inputs to Estimate Activity Resources process
- Identify the tools and techniques you use for estimating activity resources
- Present the principles of using the bottom-up estimating technique
- Understand the outputs of the Estimate Activity Resources process
- Describe a resource breakdown structure, given a scenario
- Recognize the inputs to the Acquire Resources process
- Identify the tools and techniques you use to acquire resources for a project
- Sequence the steps for using negotiation to acquire project resources
- Identify the outputs of the Acquire Resources process
- Demonstrate your understanding of the Plan Resource Management, Estimate Activity Resources, and Acquire Resources processes
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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VVencel Szarvas
The course was very informative and I'm pleased with the outcome. Sorin did a fantastic job teaching us; he had such an enthusiasm that really got me into this material!
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GGiulia Maestri
The Plan and Acquire Resources course is a fantastic way to spend your time. Sorin's enthusiastic teaching style will have you feeling like an expert in no time!
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MMattias Kuhn
The course was great! Sorin is an excellent instructor and his knowledge of the material really showed through in class. I'm glad that this investment will help me reach my goals sooner than expected.
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KK.R.
I'm so glad I took the Plan and Acquire Resources course. Sorin really knows his stuff, he's an excellent instructor! The material used in this class has been very helpful for me already - it was definitely worth my time investment of attending (and now that its done).
