Project Management Institute

If you're planning to sit for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam, you want to be as prepared as possible.  The Project Management Institute Michigan Thumb Chapter (PMI-MTC) offers this series of classes to prepare you for the prestigious PMP credential, respected everywhere by employers as the mark of excellence in Project Management. Class sizes are limited to ensure a quality learning experience. Includes book: PMP Exam Success Series, by Tony Johnson, MBA, PMP, PgMP. (Need PDUs? Take this as a refresher! It's some of the most cost-effective PDUs available.)

 Next Class: April 24th, 2010 and May 1st, 2010

The Basics - a Brief Outline

In just two days, you'll cover a lot of ground! Here's a high-level outline of the content: 

• Project Management Introduction
  • What is a Project?
  • What is Project Management?
• Project Initiation
  • Need
  • Feasibility
  • Project charters
  • The 'Triple Constraint'
• Project Planning
  • Components of the project plan
  • Characteristics of an effective plan
  • The cost of planning
• Work Breakdown Structures
  • Breaking it down - Decomposition
  • Project life cycles
  • Examples, dictionary and matrices
• Project Estimating and Costing
  • What is estimating?
  • Estimating accuracy
  • The many methods of estimating (please leave your dartboards at home)
  • Estimating variables
  • Estimating cost
  • Software
  • Cost budgeting vs. cost control
  • Disbursement schedules
• Project Scheduling
  • Project time management
  • Sequencing a project
  • Develop a schedule
  • The many joys of network diagramming
  • Dependencies, milestones, lags and leads
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  • Network diagramming terms
  • Critical path
  • Gantt and bar charts
  • Schedule control!
• Project Procurement
  • What procurement is
  • Buyer-seller relationships
  • Contract management
  • Procurement planning
  • Make/buy decisions
  • Contracts and contract types
  • Solicitation planning
• Project Execution
  • Guidelines for execution
  • Project KICKOFF!
  • Work results
  • Status reports, status meetings
  • Monitoring risk during execution
  • Common pitfalls
• Project Closure

Registration

This class runs on two consecutive Saturdays, from 8am-5pm. 

A breakfast buffet, lunch, and afternoon refreshments are provided for both class days.

Also included in the course packet is the text, PMP Exam Success Series: Certification Exam Manual, with CD-ROM, by Tony Johnson, MBA, PMP, PgMP - Crosswind Publications.