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
