Fundamentals of Project Management using PMI’s® PMBOK® - Course Content

1. Introduction to the PMBOK® and Project Management

  • The language and characteristics of project management
  • Project life cycles
  • History of the PMI® and the PMBOK®
  • Understanding business benefits
  • Project choice through prioritisation
  • Benefits of standard project management process
  • Benefits of the PMBOK® and the coveted PMP® certification

2. The Nine Knowledge Areas of the PMBOK®

Integration Management
Processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the five process groups.

 

Scope Management
Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.

 

Time Management
Processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project.

 

Cost Management
Processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.

 

Quality Management
Processes include all the activities of the performing organisation that determine quality policies, objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.

 

Human Resource Management
Processes required to organise and manage the project team.

 

Communications Management
Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval and ultimate disposition of project information.

 

Risk Management
Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, responses and monitoring of the risks throughout the project.

 

Procurement Management
Processes to purchase or acquire the products, services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work.

3. The Five Process Groups of the PMBOK®

Initiation Process Group
Defines and authorises the project or a project phase.

 

Planning Process Group
Defines and refines objectives, and plans the course of action required to attain the objectives and scope that the project was undertaken to address.

 

Executing Process Group
Integrates people and other resources to carry out the project management plan for the project.

 

Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
Regularly measures and monitors progress to identify variances from the project management plan so that corrective action can be taken when necessary to meet project objectives.

 

Closing Process Group
Formalises acceptance of the product, service or result and brings the project or a project phase to an orderly end.

4. Fundamentals of Project Management Using the PMBOK®

This section summarises and brings together the key skills, knowledge and processes necessary for successful project management.