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Highlights of the Project Management Essential Facts
- Intended for candidates who would like a refresher on project management methodologies or are new to the Project Management profession.
- Course materials will encompass the nine knowledge areas, the five processes, core purposes and core values of PMI.
- General discussion on the historical aspects of project management as a knowledge-based occupation and its incorporation as a profession.
- Practical guide on project management strategies, process inputs, tools, techniques and outputs
- Integration and mapping of the processes, process flow diagrams and symbols.
- Realistic, professional, and quality instruction by PMP certified instructors
- This class provides 24 contact hours. (If you are not yet a certified PMP you cannot accrue PDU's)
Project Management Essential Facts Topics
The PMBOK® Guide 2000 defines project management knowledge areas. The Project Management Essential Facts offers a comprehensive review of pertinent topics in each of these areas:
- Project Integration Management, the processes required to ensure
that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It consists of project plan development, project plan execution, and overall change control.
- Project Scope Management, the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. It consists of initiation, scope planning, scope definition, scope verification, and scope change control.
- Project Time Management, the processes required to ensure timely
completion of the project. It consists of activity definition, activity sequencing, activity duration estimating, schedule development, and schedule control.
- Project Cost Management, the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. It consists of resource planning, cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control.
- Project Quality Management, the processes required to ensure that
the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. It consists of
quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control.
- Project Human Resource Management, the processes required to make
the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It consists of
organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development.
- Project Communications Management, the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. It consists of communications
planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and administrative closure.
- Project Risk Management, the processes concerned with identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk. It consists of risk
identification, risk quantification, risk response development, and risk
response control.
- Project Procurement Management, the processes required to acquire
goods and services from outside the performing organization. It consists of
procurement planning, solicitation planning, solicitation, source selection, contract administration, and contract close-out.
- Professional Responsibility, the tasks, knowledge, and skills
required to ensure integrity, contribute to knowledge base, apply professional
knowledge, balance stakeholder interest, and respect differences.
Additional Information
- Contact the Chair - Project Management Essential Facts Classes - Tekmekia
Gilchrist, PMP at: examprep@pmiatlanta.org
- Go to the Calendar of Events for information on the next Project Management Essential Facts Class
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