• The structure of PMBOK
• Complete information about PMP examination, and how to prepare for it
• The meaning of professional project management
• To differentiate between projects, operations, sub-projects, programs
• Project portfolio management
• Understand different organizational structures and the power equations
• To identify and classify the stakeholders of a project
• General outline of PMBOK and PMP
• About the PMP(r) exam
• Understanding project management – thrashing some myths about project
• management.
• Understanding projects, sub projects, programs, project portfolio management,
• strategic planning, PMO, operations
• Roles and responsibilities of a project manager
• Roles and responsibilities of project sponsor
• Understanding enterprise environmental factors and their impact on the project
• Understanding project life cycle
• Linkages between project phases and project life cycle
• Understanding different organizational structures and the power equations
• Understanding the stakeholders of your project and developing a strategy to manage
• them throughout the project
• Understanding organizational process assets
• Project management process groups and knowledge areas (mapping)
• Practice test

• Develop a project charter
• Understand the business case
• Leverage the triple constraints
• Understanding the contents of project charter
• Developing the business case of a project
• NPV, BCR, Payback period, IRR , Opportunity cost, Life cycle costing
• Defining the triple constraints of the project and developing a flexibility matrix for the
• project
• Identify the stakeholders of the project
• Documenting the charter – exercise
• Practise test

• Developing the project management plan (plan for plan)
• Collecting the requirements
• Upon completion of this module, the participants will be abreast with different tools and
• techniques used for requirements collection like;
• Interviews
• Focus groups
• Facilitated workshops
• Group creativity techniques
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• PMdistilled project management course content
• Group decision making techniques
• Questionnaires and surveys
• Prototyping
• Defining the scope of the project
• Developing a project strategy

• Decomposing the scope into a work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Upon completion of this module, the participants will be able to decompose the scope of
• the project into a work break down structure, based on 8-80 rule.
• Decomposing the work packages into activities
• Sequencing the activities based on their dependencies

• · Activity on arrow diagrams (AOA)
• · Activity on node diagrams (AON)
• · Critical path
• · ES, EF, LS, LF, Float, Slack

• Activity resource and duration estimation
• Perform the effort estimation of a project based on a WBS, using Delphi and
• three point estimation.
• Estimating costs and freezing the budget
• Planning quality

• · Price of conformance and non conformance
• · Cost benefit analysis
• · Control charts
• · Benchmarking
• · Design of experiments
• · Statistical sampling
• · Quality metrics
• · Quality checklists

• · Develop Organization charts and position descriptions for the project
• · Develop RASCI chart for their project
• · Understand different Organizational theories, and apply them at their work
• place.

• · Understand the different types of project related risks
• · Create a risk register
• · Learn to perform qualitative risk analysis
• · Understand quantitative risk analysis
• · Learn to plan risk responses based on different risk response strategies

• · Perform Make or buy analysis
• · Appreciate different types of contracts and their implications
• · Apply the appropriate contract types, suiting the scenario

• Perform quality assurance
• · The different quality assurance tools and techniques available
• · How to apply these, during different project situations
• Acquiring the project team
• Developing the project team

• · Pre-assignment
• · Negotiation
• · Acquisition
• · Virtual teams

• · Different stages of team formation and the appropriate roles to be played by the project manager during these stages.
• · The interpersonal skills required to effectively groom a great team.
• · Identifying the training needs of team members
• · Different types of training methods
• · Team building activities required for effective teaming
• · Application of Ground rules for effective teaming
• · Co-location
• · Recognition and rewards
•   Manage project team

• · MBWA
• · Conducting effective performance appraisals
• · Conflict management
• · Issue log
• · Key Inter personal skills
• Distributing information
• Managing stakeholder expectations
• Conducting procurements
• · Bidder conferences
• · Proposal evaluation techniques
• · Independent estimates
• · Expert judgment
• · Advertising
• · Internet search
• · Procurement negotiations

• · Change control
• · Verify and control scope
• · Control schedule
• · Control costs
• · Control quality
• · Reporting performance
• · Monitor and control risks
• · Administer procurements

• Close project or phase
• Close procurements

Module-12 Professional ethics and social responsibility of a project manager

• · Complete understanding of project management as per PMBOK 4th edition
• · Course hand outs
• · 35 contact hours certificate
• · Access to PM exam simulator for 60 days from the course completion date
• · Online support from the instructor