What you'll learn
- Navigate the 7 Performance Domains
- Apply ITTOs in Real-World Projects
- Master Cross-Cutting Tools
- Tailor Processes for Any Lifecycle
- Prepare for the PMP® Exam
Who Should Take This Course?
PMP® & CAPM® Exam Candidates: Practitioners preparing for PMI certifications who require a complete breakdown of 8th Edition process mechanics.
Project Managers & Delivery Leads: Experienced practitioners looking to modernize their methodology and align with the PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition standards.
PMO Leaders & Process Engineers: Professionals responsible for designing, auditing, and tailoring organizational project management frameworks.
Course outline
Module 1: Governance Performance Domain
1.1 Initiate Project or Phase: Establishing business alignment, project charters, and initial authority.
1.2 Integrate and Align Project Plans: Consolidating subsidiary plans into an integrated project management plan.
1.3 Plan Sourcing Strategy: Conducting make-or-buy analyses, market research, and establishing contract frameworks.
1.4 Manage Project Execution: Leading work delivery, managing issues, and executing approved changes.
1.5 Manage Quality Assurance: Auditing quality requirements and executing organizational process standards.
1.6 Manage Project Knowledge: Facilitating explicit and tacit knowledge transfer, retrospectives, and postmortems.
1.7 Monitor and Control Project Performance: Tracking progress via Earned Value Analysis, variance analysis, and dashboards.
1.8 Assess and Implement Changes: Managing integrated change control and backlog prioritization.
1.9 Close Project or Phase: Transitioning final products, archiving assets, and conducting administrative closure.
Module 2: Scope Performance Domain (Including Quality)
2.1 Plan Scope Management: Defining requirements and scope control strategies.
2.2 Elicit and Analyze Requirements: Utilizing design thinking, user stories, and requirements mapping.
2.3 Define Scope: Writing detailed project scope statements and setting quality acceptance criteria.
2.4 Develop Scope Structure: Creating Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) or decomposing product backlogs.
2.5 Monitor and Control Scope: Controlling scope creep, variance, and verified deliverables.
2.6 Validate Scope: Conducting inspections, demos, and securing formal customer acceptance.
Module 3: Schedule Performance Domain
3.1 Plan Schedule Management: Establishing schedule methodologies, release intervals, and units of measure.
3.2 Develop Schedule: Critical Path Method, precedence diagramming, rolling wave planning, and resource leveling.
3.3 Monitor and Control Schedule: Tracking burndown/burnup charts, velocity, and applying schedule compression.
Module 4: Finance Performance Domain
4.1 Plan Financial Management: Setting funding strategies, accounting methods, and cost baselines.
4.2 Estimate Costs: Applying parametric, bottom-up, analogous, and multipoint cost estimation.
4.3 Develop Budget: Aggregating costs, establishing cost baselines, and funding limit reconciliation.
4.4 Monitor and Control Finances: Managing TCPI (To-Complete Performance Index), EVM, and financial forecasts.
Module 5: Stakeholders Performance Domain
5.1 Identify Stakeholders: Stakeholder mapping, power/interest grids, and risk alignment.
5.2 Plan Stakeholder Engagement: Formulating engagement matrices and communication triggers.
5.3 Plan Communications Management: Analyzing technology, channels, models, and cultural requirements.
5.4 Manage Stakeholder Engagement: Conflict management, negotiation, and active stakeholder alignment.
5.5 Manage Communications: Artifact distribution, status reporting, and presentation management.
5.6 Monitor Stakeholder Engagement: Evaluating relationship efficiency and updating engagement plans.
5.7 Monitor Communications: Assessing information flow and channel effectiveness.
Module 6: Resources Performance Domain
6.1 Plan Resource Management: Designing team charters, RAM/RACI charts, and resource strategies.
6.2 Estimate Resources: Estimating physical, virtual, and human resource requirements.
6.3 Acquire Resources: Preassignment, virtual team logistics, and negotiation.
6.4 Lead the Team: Applying leadership models (Servant, Distributed), Tuckman stages, and emotional intelligence.
6.5 Monitor and Control Resourcing: Value stream mapping, Theory of Constraints, and resource allocation tracking.
Module 7: Risk Performance Domain
7.1 Plan Risk Management: Establishing methodologies, risk appetites, and categories.
7.2 Identify Risks: Brainstorming, prompt lists, SWOT analysis, and AI-assisted risk discovery.
7.3 Perform Risk Analysis: Qualitative impact matrices, Monte Carlo simulations, and decision tree analysis.
7.4 Plan Risk Responses: Formulating strategies for threats (Avoid, Transfer, Mitigate, Accept) and opportunities (Exploit, Share, Enhance, Accept).
7.5 Implement Risk Responses: Executing agreed response plans and mobilizing risk owners.
7.6 Monitor Risks: Conducting risk audits, technical performance analysis, and reserve reviews.
