Project Management

• The PMBOK® model
• Six domains
• Five process groups
• Project manager competencies
• Nine knowledge areas
• Life cycle models
• Organizational structures
• Project teams
• Socioeconomic influences

Project Integration Management, Part 1

• Developing the project plan
• Creating the concept of operations
• Gathering requirements
• Influencing the organization
• Building the business case
• Baselining the project
• Working within triple constraints
• Effective change management
• Project management information system
• Using configuration management

Scope Management

• Initiating the project
• Building the project objectives statement
• Aligning to the strategic plan
• Obtaining project approval
• Writing the project charter
• Selecting the project manager
• Involving the customer
• Implementing requirements
• Identifying alternative solutions
• Creating the work breakdown structure
• Defining work packages and activities
• Differentiating product and project scope
• Verifying scope correctness
• Applying scope change control
• Taking corrective action

Human Resources Management

• Implementing organizational behavior
• Managing with force field analysis
• Running project oriented organizations
• Identifying project roles and responsibilities
• Influencing without authority
• Understanding project interfaces
• Working within organizational structures
• Negotiating techniques
• Building project teams
• Assigning team responsibilities
• Resolving conflict
• Developing reward systems

Time Management

• Effective estimating techniques
• Defining activity dependencies
• Scheduling project activities

Scheduling with CPM

• Applying PERT techniques
• Building network diagrams
• Calculating the critical path
• Calculating total float
• Scheduling free float
• Implementing Theory of Constraints
• Using expert judgment
• Leveling resources for efficiency
• Developing templates for repeatability
• Measuring project performance
• Differentiating between effort and duration
• Measuring lead and lag time
• Simulating the project for accuracy
• Expediting with fast track methods
• Crashing the project’s critical path

Cost Management

• Creating a rough estimate
• Building a cost baseline
• Defining cost terminology
• Performing analogous estimates
• Budgeting techniques
• Applying rolling wave estimating
• Estimating at the grassroots level
• Developing the budgetary estimate
• Financial analysis with NPV and IRR
• Determining project feasibility
• Developing the cost baseline
• Modeling with statistical techniques
• Learning curve techniques
• Measuring project efficiency with EVA
• Implementing a chart of accounts
• Applying cost change control
• Pooling resources for efficiency
• Assigning resources to activities
• Calculating estimate at completion

Communications Management

• Applying sender receiver models
• Planning communications
• Implementing communications methods
• Organizing effective meetings
• Determining proper communication style
• Identifying communications interfaces
• Working within constraints
• Filtering information
• Distributing information
• Retrieving information
• Reporting project performance
• Developing communications database
• Reviewing the project at closure
• Performing administrative closure

Procurement Management

• Making buy versus build decisions
• Planning solicitation
• Selecting potential vendors
• Choosing centralized and local procurement
• Understanding market conditions
• Applying procurement constraints
• Determining the right type of contract
• Writing the procurement management plan
• Soliciting bids
• Negotiating contract terms
• Obtaining estimates for goods and services
• Deciding warranty terms
• Managing contract change requests
• Implementing payment systems
• Closing contracts when complete
• Performing procurement audits

Risk Management

• Planning risk management for the project
• Aligning with organizational risk policy
• Determining risk propensity
• Identifying risk sources
• Finding types of risk
• Discovering new opportunities
• Applying qualitative risk analysis
• Developing weighting factors
• Calculating quantitative risk values
• Simulating the project
• Mitigating to reduce impact and probability
• Actively accepting inevitable risk
• Passively accepting risk
• Avoiding potential risks
• Reducing residual uncertainty
• Developing precision ranking
• Discovering with the Delphi technique
• Monitoring risk triggers
• Implementing risk responses
• Controlling risk occurrence

Review Examination

• Review the sample examination

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- Will Rogers