Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) (9314)

Your ability as a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management—both on the job and through professional certification—is becoming the standard to compete in today's fast-paced and highly technical workplace.

This course expands upon the basic concepts of project management you discovered in the Project Management Fundamentals course and offers a job-related approach to successful project management across application areas and industries.

The class times and days of the week vary depending on the specific class. Please reach out to your sales rep for details!

Course Objectives

About the Project Management Professional Certification

Employers will need to fill over 2 million new project-oriented roles each year through 2027. This means skilled project managers are in high demand. The PMP certification is designed by project professionals for project professionals and validates that you are among the best—highly skilled in:

• People: emphasizing the soft skills you need to effectively lead a project team in today's changing environment.

• Process: reinforcing the technical aspects of successfully managing projects.

• Business Environment: highlighting the connection between projects and organizational strategy

PMP certification validates that you have the project leadership skills employers seek. The new PMP includes three key approaches:

• Predictive (waterfall)

• Agile

• Hybrid

Gain a competitive edge. Prove that you work smarter. Make your goals a reality. Earn the PMP today.

Why the PMP

• The PMP adds value. CIO magazine ranked the PMP as the top project management certification in North America because it demonstrates you have the specific skills employers seek, dedication to excellence, and capacity to perform at the highest levels.

• The PMP delivers benefits. The median salary for project professionals in North America is 25% higher than that of those without it.

• The PMP proves you work smarter. It shows you have the skills to drive business results and increase your organization’s impact in the office and around the world

Domain III: Business Environment (8%)

Task 1: Plan And Manage Project Compliance

• Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and safety, regulatory compliance)

• Classify compliance categories

• Determine potential threats to compliance

• Use methods to support compliance

• Analyze the consequences of noncompliance

• Determine necessary approach and action to address compliance needs (e.g., risk, legal)

• Measure the extent to which the project is in compliance

Task 2: Evaluate And Deliver Project Benefits And Value

• Investigate to ensure that benefits are identified

• Document agreement on ownership for ongoing benefit realization

• Verify measurement system is in place to track benefits

• Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value

• Appraise stakeholders of value-gaining progress

Task 3: Evaluate And Address External Business Environment Changes For Impact On Scope

• Survey changes to external business environment (e.g., regulations, technology, geopolitical, market)

• Assess and prioritize impact on project scope and backlog based on changes in external business environment

• Recommend options for scope or backlog changes (e.g., schedule or cost changes)

• Continually review external business environment for impacts on project scope and backlog

Task 4: Support Organizational Change

• Assess organizational culture

• Evaluate impact of organizational change on the project and determine required actions

• Evaluate impact of the project on the organization and determine required actions