Preparation Course for Project Management Professional (PMP)

Course Info

Length: 2 Weeks

City: Singapore

Type: In Classroom

Available Dates

  • Jan-13-2025

    Singapore

  • Apr-14-2025

    Singapore

  • July-14-2025

    Singapore

  • Oct-13-2025

    Singapore

Dates in Other Venues

  • Jan-13-2025

    Dubai

  • Jan-13-2025

    Istanbul

  • Jan-13-2025

    Paris

  • Jan-13-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Jan-13-2025

    Barcelona

  • Jan-13-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Feb-10-2025

    London

  • Mar-17-2025

    Dubai

  • Apr-14-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Apr-14-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Apr-14-2025

    London

  • Apr-14-2025

    Paris

  • Apr-14-2025

    Istanbul

  • Apr-14-2025

    Barcelona

  • May-12-2025

    Dubai

  • June-16-2025

    London

  • July-14-2025

    Barcelona

  • July-14-2025

    Istanbul

  • July-14-2025

    Amsterdam

  • July-14-2025

    Paris

  • July-14-2025

    Dubai

  • July-14-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Aug-11-2025

    London

  • Sep-15-2025

    Dubai

  • Oct-13-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Oct-13-2025

    Barcelona

  • Oct-13-2025

    London

  • Oct-13-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Oct-13-2025

    Paris

  • Oct-13-2025

    Istanbul

  • Nov-10-2025

    Dubai

  • Dec-15-2025

    London

Course Details

Course Outline

10 days course

Introduction to Project Management

   

  • PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)® examination content outline
  • Definition and purpose of project management, and the role of project managers
  • Understanding the principles of value creation and delivery in project management
  • Exploring core functions associated with projects
  • Describing the environment in which the project operates: External vs. Internal environment
  • Discussing the principles of project management and their impact on project execution

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