Preparation Course for Project Management Professional (PMP)

Stakeholder and Team Performance Domains 

• Definition of project stakeholder and their impact on a project
• Describing the process of stakeholder engagement
• Understanding the dynamics of a project team and the aspects of team development
• Discussing key leadership skills required to lead and manage project team
• Exploring project team management and leadership strategies
• Recognizing the role of project managers in building project team culture and creating a high-performing project team

Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain  

• Analyzing the relationship between development, cadence and life cycle
• Definition of delivery cadence and its types
• Distinguishing between development approaches: Predictive vs. Hybrid vs. Adaptive
• Criteria and key considerations for selecting a development approach
• Exploring phases in the project life cycle
• Understanding the alignment between delivery cadence, development approach and life cycle

Planning Performance Domains

• Definition and purpose of planning in project management
• Exploring the variables of planning: Delivery, estimation, schedules and budget
• Methods to plan for project team composition and structure
• Identifying the importance of planning for communication and changes
• Steps and methods to plan for physical resources and procurement
• Understanding metrics and alignment planning

Project Work Performance Domain

• Understanding project processes and ways of optimizing processes for the environment
• Discussing the importance of balancing competing constraints associated with project work
• Methods and best practices for maintaining project team focus
• Understanding the type of project communication and ways of ensuring engagement
• Techniques for managing physical resources
• Exploring types of contracting and procurement in projects and the way of working with them
• Best practices for monitoring new work and changes in projects and the importance of learning throughout the project

Delivery Performance Domain

• Definition of project delivery and its importance
• Understanding delivery of value in projects
• Describing project deliverables:

1. Requirements
2. Scope definition
3. Moving targets of completion

• Discussing the ways of reflecting quality requirements in projects
• Definition of suboptimal outcomes and best practices for reducing negative outcomes

Measurement Performance Domain

• Understanding the purpose and needs for project measures
• Steps of establishing effective measures
• Discussing what to measure in projects
• Methods for presenting measurement findings and information
• Challenges and pitfalls related to measurement
• Tools and techniques for troubleshooting performance

Uncertainty Performance Domain

• Recognizing nuances to uncertainty in project management
• Methods to respond to uncertainty
• Definition of ambiguity and its categories
• Understanding complexity in project management and its types
• Methods for addressing volatility in the project environment
• Distinguishing between threats and opportunities as types of project risk
• Definition of contingency reserve and the importance of managing reserve

Tailoring

• Definition of tailoring and its role in adopting project management processes  
• Identifying types of project management elements that can be tailored for different projects
• Describing the tailoring process based on project needs
• Methods for tailoring project performance domains
• Exploring diagnostics techniques for various situations 

Models, Methods and Artifacts 

• Exploring commonly used models and their applications across the performance domain
• Exploring commonly used methods and their applications across the performance domain
• Exploring commonly used artefacts and their applications across the performance domain
• Exploring the interaction between performance domains for project success
• Lessons Learned and Best Practices
• Final Q&A and Course Wrap-Up