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Distinguish yourself with a global PMI PMP certification 
An integrated blended learning solution designed to progressively prepare aspiring PMP candidates until they are confident to pass the PMP exam. Facilitated by only seasoned PMP exam coaches, this blended learning workshop features color, interactive student manual (not just printouts of the instructor slides), team and individual exercises, 100s of flash cards, laminated study aids with all the formulas, 60 page PMBOK® Guide—fourth edition condensed study notes and access to our globally recognized PMP exam simulator. Students have ongoing access to their personal coach until successful completion of their PMP certification project.
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4 days on-site training in a small class environment with a dedicated PMP Coach.
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Color manual expanding on PMBOK® Guide–Fourth Edition material in detail. YES we are 100% compliant with the Aug 31 PMI blueprint!
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PMP exam simulator with 1,320 questions.
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Condensed PMBOK® Guide prep notes (60 pages).
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2 double sided laminated job aids with study tips.
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Various exercises to reinforce key learning concepts.
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One-on-one personal coaching assistance.
EXAM STRATEGIES
- Characteristics of project management and product life cycles.
- What is operations, projects, PMO and programs.
- Importance of stakeholders.
- Enterprise environmental factors.
- Organizational process assets.
- Organizational structures and influences.
- Pilots view of the 5 processes, 9 knowledge areas and 42 processes.
PM FOUNDATION
- Characteristics of project management and product life cycles.
- What is operations, projects, PMO and programs.
- Importance of stakeholders.
- Enterprise environmental factors.
- Organizational process assets.
- Organizational structures and influences.
- Pilots view of the 5 processes, 9 knowledge areas and 42 processes.
SCOPE
- Collect Requirements: Defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to ensure project objectives are met.
- Define Scope: Developing detailed description of the project and product as a basis for future decisions.
- Create WBS: Subdividing major deliverables into smaller components.
- Verify Scope: Formal acceptance the completed project deliverables.
- Control Scope: Monitoring status of the project and product scope and managing changes to scope baseline.
TIME
- Define Activities: decomposing the WBS completed during scope into activity lists. Sequence Activities: determining the dependencies for each activity.
- Estimate Activity Resources: estimating the types and quantities of resources required to complete the activities.
- Estimate Activity Durations: how long will each activity take with the resources we have assigned?
- Develop Schedule: producing the schedule baseline. We will work through a network diagram to calculate the critical path and float for each of the activities.
- Control Schedule: monitoring the schedule compared to the plan and take appropriate action.
RISK
- Plan Risk Management: assessing stakeholder tolerances to risk and creating the risk management plan on how we will manage risk on the project.
- Identify Risks: brainstorming a list of risks.
- Perform qualitative analysis: is the probability and impact of the risks high, low, or medium? I think/gut feel about the risks.
- Perform quantitative analysis: more detailed analysis to quantify the risk. 80% probability the risk will occur with a $50,000 impact to the project. Putting numerics to the risk.
- Plan Risk Response: Now that we have ranked the risks, what will be our response/action to prioritized risks. Choices to threats – avoid, mitigate, transfer or accept. Choices to opportunities are enhance, exploit, share or accept. Pay particular attention to the differences between qualitative (I think/gut feel) vs. the quantitative (numeric) risk analysis.
- Monitoring & Controlling Risks: keeping an eye for unplanned risks and monitoring identified risks for appropriate action.
PROFESSIONAL & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Review the PMI code of conduct. It's pretty basic ethics, but it's a must know for the exam and as a "soon to be practicing PMP"!
- The 4 PMI core values: Responsibility; Respect; Fairness; Honesty.
- Ethics and common sense.
- Cultural Competence.
QUALITY
- Plan Quality: Identify the standards, determine the quality metrics and create the quality management plan on how we will obtain overall quality.
- Perform Quality Assurance: evaluating our processes to ensure we will satisfy the quality standards set out in the quality plan.
- Perform Quality Control: inspect the various project deliverables and results to ensure they met the standards. Pay particular attention to the differences between the QA and QC processes.
COST
- Estimate Costs: What does each activity cost?
- Determine Budget: Rolling up all the activity costs to determine the cost baseline which we will measure our cost performance against.
- Control Costs: Influencing the factors that create cost variances and taking corrective action as necessary.
COMMUNICATIONS
- Identify Stakeholders: Identifying people and organizations impacted by the project, documenting their interests, involvement and impact on project success.
- Plan Communications: Develop the communication management plan on whom, what and how frequent we will communicate the project information.
- Information Distribution: Gathering all the project information and distributing it out. Following the communication plan.
- Manage Stakeholders: Issue management with the stakeholders to ensure conflict/issues are resolved in a timely manner.
- Report Performance: Collecting and communicating all the project performance. Forecasting project performance and taking corrective action as needed.
PROCUREMENT
- Plan Procurement: Make or buy analysis. Creating the procurement management plan which advises on what type of contract we should negotiate. i.e. Fixed Price; Cost plus; and/or Time and Materials. Creating the CSOW, evaluation criteria and preparing the procurement documents to the potential vendors. i.e. proposals, request for quotes/bids etc.
- Conduct Procurement: Select sellers and awarding contracts. Contract negotiations.
- Administer Procurements: Manage seller relationship, review seller performance and manage contract related changes.
- Close Procurements: Settlement of contract including open items.
HUMAN RESOURCES
- Develop HR Plan: develop HR plan staff plan on when and how resources will be met. Identifying roles and responsibilities. A.k.a. the infamous RACI chart.
- Acquire project team: negotiating for the required team members.
- Develop project team: motivate and develop the team to enhance project performance.
- Manage project team: track team performance, provide feedback and resolve conflict.
INTEGRATION
- Develop Charter: Formal authorization of the project or phase.Develop Project Mgmt Plan: Document actions to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate subsidiary plans into the project management plan.
- Direct and Manage Project Execution: Execute the work defined in the project management plan to achieve requirements in scope statement.
- Monitor & Control Project Work: Monitor and control the processes to meet the performance objectives.
- Perform Integrated Change Control: Reviewing change requests, approving change requests and controlling changes.
- Close Project or Phase: Finalize all activities to formally close the project or phase.
- Increase your probability of passing the exam by focusing only on relevant exam topics.
- Develop a personal study plan based on your strengths and weaknesses. Use our recommended 14 day study plan.
- Understand the elimination process to help answer any question correctly.
- Learn tricks for understanding how the questions are written.
- Exercises and condensed handouts help you understand, memorize and conceptualize the information you need to know, right in class, including those dreaded formulas!
- Practice in a PMP® exam simulator.
- Test your recall with 100s of flash cards.
This PMP prep workshop INCLUDES:
FEE: $2,095 Includes Breakfast, Lunch & Breaks.
We invoice after the first day of attendance.
- PMP certification is the profession's most globally recognized and respected certification credential. The PMP designation following your name tells current and potential employers that you have a solid foundation of project management knowledge that can be readily applied in the workplace.
- Worldwide there are over 446,000 PMP providing project management services in more than 170 countries.
- To obtain PMP certification, an individual must satisfy education and experience requirements, agree to and adhere to a code of professional conduct, and pass the PMP Certification Exam. Ask Cindy to assist you in documenting your hours.
Distinguish yourself with a global PMI CAPM™ certification.
Our Certified Associate Project Management (CAPM) exam prep includes:
- Condensed study notes for all 9 PMBOK™ Guide Knowledge Areas.
- Unlimited personal coaching via email and telephone with dedicated, highly experienced instructor. Until you pass!
- 24/7 access to Personal CAPM™ Coach exam simulator - 870 questions.
- Study aids with all formulas, key concepts and 100's of flash cards.
- Designed exclusively to pass the challenging CAPM 150 question exam.
- 100% compliant with the PMBOK™ Guide 4th edition.
 
Don't wait. Join the 14,000 CAPM's worldwide.
An integrated blended learning solution designed to progressively prepare aspiring PMI-RMP® candidates until they are confident to pass the PMI-RMP exam. Facilitated by only seasoned PMP and PMI-RMP exam coaches, this blended learning workshop features a color, interactive student manual (not just printouts of the instructor slides), team and individual exercises, 100s of flash cards, laminated study aids with all the formulas, 60 page PMBOK® Guide—fourth edition condensed study notes and access to our globally recognized PMI-RMP exam simulator. Students have ongoing access to their personal coach until successful completion of their PMI-RMP certification project.
- 2 days in class training in a small class environment with a dedicated PMI-RMP Coach.
- One-on-one personal coaching via email and telephone. Until you pass!
- Color manual expanding on PMBOK® Guide–Fourth Edition material in detail.
- 24/7 access to Personal PMI-RMP coach exam simulator with 745 questions.
- Condensed PMBOK® Guide prep notes (60 pages).
- Laminated job aids with study aids with all formulas, key concepts.
- 100's of flash cards.
- Various exercises to reinforce key learning concepts.
- Course Structure
- Application Process
- Exam blueprint and strategies
- 14 day study plan
- PM Process PMBOK® Guide chapter 3
- Quality
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Response
- Risk Governance
- Communications
- Network Diagrams
- Wrap Up
- Exam study tips
- Unlimited access to highly experienced facilitators.
- Earn 50 PDUs.
- Increase your probability of passing the exam by focusing only on relevant exam topics.
- Develop a personal study plan based on your strengths and weaknesses. Use our recommended 14 day study plan.
- Understand the elimination process to help answer any question correctly.
- Learn tricks for understanding how the questions are written.
- Exercises and condensed handouts help you understand, memorize and conceptualize the information you need to know, right in class, including those dreaded formulas!
- Practice in an PMI-RMP exam simulator.
- Test your recall with 100s of flash cards.
This PMI-RMP prep workshop INCLUDES:
- 2 days in class instruction
- Color student manual
- 90 days unlimited access to PMI-RMP exam simulator 745 questions
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FEE: $1,495 Includes Breakfast, Lunch & Breaks.
We invoice after the first day of attendance.
- The PMI-RMP® credential recognizes demonstrated knowledge and expertise in the specialized area of assessing and identifying project risks while mitigating threats and capitalizing on opportunities.
- Worldwide there are over 950 PMP providing project management services in more than 170 countries.
- To obtain PMI-RMP certification, an individual must satisfy education and experience requirements, agree to and adhere to a code of professional conduct, and pass the PMI-RMP Certification Exam. Ask Cindy to assist you in documenting your hours.
This newly designed workshop integrates both the "hard" and "soft" skills essential for effective project management. Through a dynamic, interactive and accelerated learning environment, this course focuses on strategies for:
- Designed to simulate a project through the 5 PMBOK® Guide process groups – initiation, planning, execution, control and close-out.
- Stimulating exercises in small groups reinforce key concepts, tools and techniques you can apply immediately to your job – along with insights you'll need to adapt them to specific project environments.
- Participants will be equipped with a variety of templates and self-assessment tools to support class presentations and provide useful reference material in the real work environment.
FRAMEWORK
- Setting the stage
- PM makes it to Prime Time
- Perils and Pearls of a PMO
- Stakeholders' expectations
- Project Life Cycle phases
INITIATING
- Needs assessment
- Project selection criteria
- Assumptions, Constraints
- Critical success factors
- Scope definition
- How to create a Charter
PLANNING
PLANNING cont'd
- Resource planning
- Resource leveling
- Cost baseline
- Communication Plan
- Risk identification & analysis
- Risk response plan
- Quality Plan
- Integrated Project Plan
EXECUTING
- Navigating the RACE
- Leadership Challenges
- Building Team Dynamics
- Conflict Strategies
- Win-win negotiations
- Project Relationships
- Virtual and Global teams
- Communication Bottlenecks
- Providing team direction
- Quality Assurance
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Quality Improvement
CONTROL
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Performance reporting issues
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Evaluating performance
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Monitoring the Vital Signs
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Tracking and Status Reporting
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Risk Monitoring & Control
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Raising team risk awareness
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Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
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Managing the winds of change
CLOSE-OUT
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Evaluating success
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Turn out the lights
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Conducting reviews
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Lessons learned
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Close out process
FINAL WRAP-UP
The following groups and individuals will benefit:
- Individuals embarking on a PM career
- Customers or project sponsors
- Managers responsible for projects
- Team members and leaders
- Directors of Project Managers
- Technical and support staff
- PMP®'s looking to earn 21 PDU's
Each student will receive:
- 3 days in class facilitation by high experienced instructor. View instructor bios.
- Color student manual with templates, examples and detailed instructions.
- Unlimited use of our famous ProjectDocsInActionTemplate reviewed during the class.
- Laminated summary of key points to initiating, planning, controlling and closing out your project.
- 60 days email/Telco assistance on all material covered.
Register in our Toronto session running December 8, 9 & 10
 Join the 1,000’s worldwide who practiced with our PMP exam simulator and passed!
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Progress analyzer by 42 processes and 5 process groups to focus your study
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100s of flash cards by knowledge area
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FREE on-line support for complex questions
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Getting started – personalize a study plan
PMI experience excel template – saves HOURS of effort documenting your PM hours
 Don’t be fooled and study the wrong exam questions. Our CAPM®exam simulator questions are based on feedback from CAPM's. They are not PMP questions!
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Best value at only $125
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FREE on-line support
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Printable PMBOK® Guide condensed notes
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Progress reporting by 42 processes and 5 process groups
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100s of flash cards by knowledge areas
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90 days unlimited access 24/7
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Getting started – personalize a recommended study plan
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 Brand NEW. Mitigate your risk. Study the right exam questions. Our PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® exam simulator questions are unique to the PMI-RMP® exam. They are not PMP questions!
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Best value at only $125 – FREE on-line support
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Printable PMBOK® Guide condensed notes
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Progress reporting by 6 processes, 5 process groups and 4 risk domains
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100s of flash cards by knowledge areas
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90 days unlimited access 24/7
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Getting started – personalize a recommended study plan
Read More Free Demo More Features
B rand NEW coming Sept 2011. Mitigate your risk. Study the right exam questions. Our PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)® exam simulator questions are unique to the PMI-SP® exam. They are not PMP questions!
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Best value at only $125 – FREE on-line support
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Printable PMBOK® Guide condensed notes
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Progress reporting by 6 processes, 5 process groups and 5 scheduling domains
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100s of flash cards by knowledge areas
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90 days unlimited access 24/7
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Getting started – personalize a recommended study plan
Read More Free Demo - More Features
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