As the world’s leading authority on project management, PMI created PMP Certification to recognize project managers who have proven they have the skills to successfully manage projects. Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification represents an elite group of project managers. It proves project leadership experience and expertise in any way of working.
To obtain PMP certification, a project manager must meet certain requirements and then pass a 180-question exam. The PMP exam was created by project leaders for project leaders, so each test question can be related to real-life project management experiences.
PMP certification validates that you are highly skilled in:
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People: Recognizing you have the skills to effectively lead and motivate a project team throughout a project.
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Process: Using predictive, agile and hybrid approaches to determine which way of working is best for each project.
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Business Environment: Highlighting the success of a project and its impact on overall strategic organizational goals.
1: Business Environment
• Define ‘project’ and how it relates to the larger discussion of project management.
– Discuss the different types of organizational structures and how they relate to your project’s management.
– Discuss the principles of project management.
– Discuss the principles of agile and how they relate to your project’s management.
• Discuss strategic alignment and its elements.
– Explain the impact of business factors on strategic alignment.
– Determine how projects align with business strategy.
• Identify types of business value.
• Describe change management theory and its relation to organizational change.
• Define and discuss project governance.
• Explain project compliance and its importance.
2: Start the Project
• Define and discuss stakeholders and the most effective ways to communicate with them.
• Explain the best ways to form a team.
• Describe how to build the most effective understanding of a project and how doing so relates to executing a project successfully.
• Explain how predictive and adaptive project life cycles work; explain what a hybrid development approach is.
– Decide which kind of development approach or life cycle is best suited for work.
3: Plan the Project
• Explain the importance of a project management plan.
• Provide an overview of scope planning in both predictive and adaptive projects.
• Provide an overview of schedule planning in both predictive and adaptive projects.
• Discuss resource planning for a project, including human and physical resources and the role of procurement.
• Determine the budgeting structure/method for a project
• Explain the importance of tailoring a budget.
• Identify strategies for dealing with risks and risk planning.
• Assemble a toolkit of possible responses to risks.
• Define quality and how it relates to the outcomes and deliveries for a project.
• Discuss the importance of integrating project management plans and tailoring a change management process.
4: Lead the Project Team
• Discuss the guidelines for developing leadership competencies and skills.
– Address leadership styles, and the components of leading a successful team, either in person or virtually.
• Describe artifacts and the strategies for their use.
• Identify the characteristics and core functions of empowered teams.
• Explain strategies and forms of communication for collaborating in a project team environment.
• Learn the value of training, coaching and mentoring for a team.
• Explain the importance of conflict management.
• Discuss the causes and levels of conflict and their outcomes.
5: Support Project Team Performance
• Explain the various methods for implementing improvement.
• Explain the various methods for performance measurement.
• Compare these methods with a focus on communication and accountability.
• Identify the methods for implementing a project and the issues and impediments that arise during a project.
• Describe the methods for implementing changes during a project.
6: Close the Project/Phase
• Define the reasons and activities related to the closure of a phase or a project.
• Explain the benefits gained from a project or phase, and how they are managed, sustained, etc.
• Examine the reasons for knowledge transfers and how they relate to the closure of a phase or project.
7: Fulfil the PMI training requirements for application to take the PMP examination
