Why to choose us?
We are an Authorized Training Partner (ATP) at PMI thus we provide the official PMP exam preparation training developed by PMI with one of the most experienced instructor around the globe.
As an option, we undertake an exam guarantee and commitment to participants in our program under the following conditions:
- Participate in our full preparation program,
- Complete our 180-question test with at least 75% results,
- Run the PMP® exam within 45 days of the test day,
for those participants we are ready to take over and pay the re-exam fee for the first supplementary exam.
Our recommended preparation program is based on the requirements of the current PMP® Exam Content Outline and the 6th and 7th Editions of the PMBoK Guide published by PMI, which provide the project management methodological basis for the PMP® Exam.
Video recording of the whole program will be made available to the participants after the training.
In the training calendar the date of the first training day is announced in advance, the additional days are agreed with the registered participants prior to the program. We usually have one training day per week from 9:00 to 17:00.
We help participants to plan the preparatory steps for the exam at an individual level.
Conditions to apply for the PMP exam
- Project management practice covering a minimum period of 3 years in the last 8 years. The project management experiences of the candidate shall be specified during exam application process.
- Minimum 35 hours of formal project management training.
- University degree
Detailed thematics
During the training the following 9 topics are covered:
1 – Project environment, project management life cycle models
- PMP® exam knowledge domains and exam requirements, study aids
- Project management definitions
- Project lifecycle structure and types: characteristics of predictive, adaptive (incremental, iterative and agile) and hybrid development lifecycles
- Project environment assessment, project as a business value creation tool, process and approach
- Project compliance planning and management
- Establishing project governance structure
2 – Project scope planning and quality management
- Development of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and its role in project management
- Methods and tools for requirements definition and prioritization
- Designing, managing and controlling the quality of project products and deliverables
- Quality management principles proposed by PMI
- Defining and managing the quality of project management documents (artifacts)
- Design of content levels for adaptive projects: epics, user stories and backlog preparation
3 – Project planning: schedule, resource and budget planning
- Elements of a project schedule model
- Definition of project activities, resource, cost and duration estimation methods
- Methods for accelerating project implementation
- Development of a schedule network diagram, critical path calculation
- Planning iterations of adaptive/agile projects, planning poker method
- Methods for determining project resources and budgeting
4 – Building and developing the project team, the personality and role of the project manager
- Building a project team, improving collaboration and performance
- Assessing the competencies and skills needed for project success, identifying training needs, organizing and measuring training
- Identifying and effectively managing teamwork barriers and blockers
- Establishing project team ground rules, and achieving compliance - the relationship between trust and control
- Facilitate, support and develop commitment to the work of a virtual project team (geographically distributed participants collaborating through electronic communication)
- Role and competences of the project manager/project leader
- The need for emotional intelligence to lead a project team, self-awareness
- Project management skills: leadership styles, influencing, motivating, empowerment
5 – Project implementation and management tasks
- Project integration management's role in project success, coordination of project activities
- Procurement management, contracting, performance management and monitoring
- Securing resources and scope components from external sources - procurement and supplier management
- Project knowledge management
- Definition of procurement needs and conditions, preparation of procurements
- Managing the delivery of project results and the evaluation of project work, carrying out closure tasks
6 – Measuring and controlling project results and operations
- Project scope verification and acceptance process
- Methods used to measure the results of adaptive/agile projects (burndown/burnup charts, velocity)
- Managing project costs, challenges of keeping within budget and resource expenditure, change management
- Earned value integrated controlling method, metrics, forecasting
- Project change management principles and processes, incorporating changes in the external business environment into the project
- Measuring project team work and collaboration, providing constructive and developmental feedback
7 - Communicating with project stakeholders and achieving and maintaining the necessary engagement
- Stakeholder identification and analysis steps and methods
- General communication management principles, communication model
- Assessing organizational changes related to the project, identifying and implementing appropriate change management measures
- Creating and maintaining stakeholder engagement during the project, working with stakeholders
- Achieving and managing project-related consensus agreements
- Project conflict prevention and constructive management of conflict situations
- Communication management plan elements, different levels, methods and tools of project communication
- Negotiating situations throughout the project, establishing agreements with stakeholders
8 – Responsibilities and ethical conduct of the project manager
- Ethics and conduct of project management practitioners based on the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
- Success factors for project management in an international, multicultural environment
9 – Assessing and managing project uncertainty (risks, opportunities and problems/issues)
- Risk management concepts and principles
- Adaptivity and resilience at individual, team and organizational level
- Operating an informed issue management process throughout the project
- Types, sources and identification of project risks and opportunities
- Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis methods
- Integrative summary of the training: PMBOK process map, Agile manifesto and the 12 Agile principles, PMI-isms in exam questions
- Planning risk responses and monitoring risks/opportunities
- Relationship between risk and issue management
