PMI-SP® – Exam Prep

This workshop serves as a PMI® Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) intensive exam preparation course. It also presents scheduling practice standards to help a scheduling practitioner become more effective.

Who Should Attend

• Individuals who plan to take the exam but need some guidance to create a study path

• Individuals who are studying for the exam and want to identify gaps in their knowledge

• Individuals who are interested in a “refresher” course before sitting for the exam

Course Details

Getting Started

• Introductions

• Course structure

• Course goals and objectives

Becoming a PMI-SP

• Overview of the PMI-SPcredential

• Eligibility requirements

• The PMI-SPapplication process

• Benefits of achieving certification

Scheduling Concepts and Standards

• Role of the Practice Standard for Scheduling

• The schedule development process

• Essential elements of a schedule

• Scheduling components

• Schedule conformance and scoring

Schedule Domains

• Schedule mission management

• Schedule creation

• Schedule maintenance

• Schedule analysis

• Schedule communication/reporting

Project Integration Management

• Role of organizational process assets

• Role of enterprise environmental factors

• Project charter

• Project management plan

  • Project baseline

  • Subsidiary plans

• Managing changes

• Reviewing and correcting project work

• Closing the project or phase

Project Scope Management

• Project scope statement components

• Role of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Managing changes

Project Time Management

• Scheduling processes integrated with other PMBOK Guide processes

• Defining activities

  • Enterprise environmental factors

  • Organizational process assets

  • Decomposing the WBS

• Sequencing activities

  • Arrow diagramming method

  • Precedence diagramming method

• Estimating activity resources

  • Determining resource needs

  • Using various techniques to plan for

• Estimating activity durations

  • Differentiating between various estimating techniques

  • Calculating an estimate from a formula

• Developing the schedule

• Conducting the forward pass/backward pass

• Calculating the critical path

• Controlling the schedule

  • Conducting performance reviews

  • Analyzing variances

  • Updates to various project documents

Project Cost Management

• Role of the schedule in cost estimating

• Techniques for estimating

• Budgeting techniques

• Cost performance baseline

• Earned Value Management (EVM)

Project Human Resource Management

• Human resource processes

• Components of the human resource plan

• Techniques for obtaining a project team

• Techniques for developing the project team

• Resolving team conflicts

Project Communications Management

• Communication processes

• Defining a communication approach

• Communication models/methods

• Communication management plan

• Reporting to others

• Performance reports

Project Risk Management

• Risk management processes

• Planning for risks

• Controlling risks