• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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. 

• 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.

• 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.