Project Management Certificate Program: The Kerzner Approach® to Project Management Excellence

Complete Seminar Details

Prerequisites: You should have at least 15 hours of dedicated Project Management training before taking this workshop, in addition to the standard PMI® requirements.

Course Level: Intermediate

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We are certain that IIL's Certificate Program will allow you to pass the PMP® Exam on the very first try. In fact, if you don't pass, IIL will provide you with one-on-one coaching and allow you to attend our online PMP® Prep Workshop free of charge.

THIS COURSE INCLUDES

Project Management IQ® CD-ROM (15-hours)

The PMP® Exam is tough! Only Project Management IQ® has been proven to provide the comprehensive help and assistance you need to ace the exam.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) - Third Edition, Paperback

Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling 9th Edition by Dr Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.

The Program Structure

The Project Management Certificate Program is scheduled around the world at convenient locations. This program is spread over five consecutive days.

Who Should Attend

Project managers, team members, field staff members, project engineers, design engineers, project leaders, administrators, industrial engineers, program managers, manufacturing engineers, operations managers, functional managers, Information Technology professionals, R&D managers, marketing directors, Six Sigma Black Belts, and others involved directly or indirectly with projects in virtually every industry.

Course Overview

• PMBOK® Guide – structure and intent
• Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM)
• Definitions
• Project life cycle
• Project portfolio management
• Project management process groups
• Knowledge areas
• PMBOK® Guide process model

MODULE 2: Project Integration Management

• Defining project success
• Triple constraints
• Focus of integrated planning
• Areas of expertise needed by the project team
• Process group interaction in a project
• Initiating projects
• Developing a project charter
• Project selection methods
• Benefit measurement methods
• Project scope statement
• Key project planning deliverables
• Change control

MODULE 3: Project Scope Management

• Project scope planning
• Project scope definition
• Scope statement
• Statement of work
• Work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Decomposition
• Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
• Scope verification
• Scope control

MODULE 4: Project Time Management

• Project time management processes
• Natural transition from scope management
• Activity definition processes
• WBS decomposition
• Activity sequencing
• Precedence diagramming method
• Precedence relationships
• Activity resource estimating
• Activity duration estimating
• Estimating approached
• Schedule development
• Critical path method (CPM)
• PERT
• Critical chain techniques
• Schedule negotiations
• Schedule control

MODULE 5: Project Cost Management

• Cost management plan
• Cost estimating
• Estimating checklist
• Learning curve
• Cost budgeting
• Reserve
• Project life cycle costs

MODULE 6: Project Control

• Controlling the project plan
• Assessing change
• Variance analysis and management
• Proactive review process
• Earned value management
• Causes of schedule delays
• Escalation

MODULE 7: Project Risk Management

• Risk terminology
• Risk management planning
• Risk identification
• Risk analysis – qualitative and quantitative
• Risk response planning
• Risk monitoring and control

MODULE 8: Project Human Resource Management

• Organizational influences
• Organizational structures
• Human resource planning
• Staff management plans and acquisition
• Developing the project team
• Team building and leadership
• Approaches to conflict

MODULE 9: Project Quality Management

• The importance of quality
• Historical evolution of quality
• Quality planning process
• Quality characteristics
• Quality policy
• Quality assurance
• Quality control
• Quality tools
• Six Sigma

MODULE 10: Project Procurement Management

• Procurement planning process
• Buyers and sellers
• Purchase plans and acquisitions
• Types of contracts
• Contract costs
• Proposals
• Contract negotiations
• Contract administration
• Contract change control
• Legal perspectives
• Contract closure

MODULE 11: Project Communications Management

• Types of communication
• Communications process
• Barriers to effective communication
• Communication planning
• Stakeholder analysis
• Communications plan
• Communication styles
• Meetings
• Performance reporting
• Managing stakeholders

MODULE 12: Professional and Social Responsibility

• Professional and social responsibility tasks
• Code of conduct
• Sample questions

MODULE 13: PMP® Exam Preparation and Review

• The PMP® certification process
• Project management professional (PMP®) examination specification
• PMP® eligibility requirements
• The revised PMP® credential examination overview
• Knowledge areas review
• Additional study references
• Formulas and other fun stuff
• Earned value terms
• Study plan and study groups
• Application options

Key Topics

Project Management Framework defines key project management terms, identifies the major PMBOK® Guide – Third Edition process groups and reviews the project management knowledge areas.

Project Integration Management focuses on the importance of having project managers work across the organizational boundaries in order to be successful.

Project Scope Management establishes the foundation of how to systematically identify the key deliverables of the project. After establishing a scope baseline, it is crucial to ensure that there will be a process for managing change.

Project Time Management builds on the deliverables identified in the scope definition process. The project manager breaks these deliverables down further and then develops the project schedule.

Project Cost Management covers establishing a project budget and understanding the different mechanisms used to estimate the cost of a given project.

Project Control Management section stresses an integrated approach for controlling a project.

Project Risk Management is a critical area which enables participants to comprehend what is needed in identifying risk events, analyzing them, and strategies for handling them.

Project Human Resources Management addresses the essential staffing and leadership issues for the project team.

Project Quality Management ensures there is a plan for managing, assuring, and controlling the project’s quality.

Project Procurement Management covers the essentials of procurement decisions, contract administration and closure principles.

Project Communications Management helps participants understand project team communications issues and how to build consensus among various project groups.

Professional and Social Responsibility section outlines the behavioral and ethical aspects of professional project managers. This section enables project managers to exercise the proper judgment in their decision-making process.

Exam Preparation and Review of the program is dedicated to answering participants’ questions and administering a sample final exam that integrates all modules.

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