The Project Management Certificate Program
The Kerzner Approach® to Project Management Excellence
This program is designed to build your skills
and abilities as a professional project manager
while preparing you in-depth for PMI®’s Project
Management Professional (PMP®) exam.
You will learn practical skills as well as concepts
and principles that you can take back to the job,
while gaining insight into ways to adapt these
skills to specific project environments. You will
also learn in detail about each of the nine
knowledge areas within PMI’s A Guide to the
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®
Guide).
Prerequisites
Basic project management training or equivalent
experience
Course Level
Intermediate
Who Should Attend
Project managers, team members, field staff
members, project engineers, design engineers,
project leaders, administrators, industrial
engineers, program managers, manufacturing
engineers, operations managers, functional
managers, information technology professionals,
research and development managers,
marketing directors, Six Sigma Black Belts
and others involved directly or indirectly with
projects in virtually every industry.
Performance Focus
The program includes a detailed exploration of
each of the nine knowledge areas within PMI’s
PMBOK Guide. The focus of this program is on
preparing participants to take the PMP exam
while at the same time building their practical
skills and proficiencies as project managers.
Program Overview: Key Topics
Project Management Framework defines
key project management terms, identifies
the major PMBOK Guide process groups and
reviews the project management knowledge
areas.
Program Outline
Project Management Framework
PMBOK Guide – structure and intent
Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM)
Definitions and project life cycle
Project portfolio management
Project management process groups
Knowledge areas
PMBOK Guide process model
Project Integration Management
Defining project success
Triple constraints
Focus of integrated planning
Areas of expertise needed by the project team
Process group interaction in a project
Initiating projects
Developing a project charter
Project selection methods
Benefit measurement methods
Project scope statement
Key project planning deliverables
Change control
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Project Scope Management
Project scope planning
Project scope definition
Scope statement
Statement of work
Work breakdown structure ( WBS)
Decomposition
Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
Scope verification
Scope control
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Project Time Management
Project time management processes
Natural transition from scope management
Activity definition processes
WBS decomposition
Activity sequencing
Precedence diagramming method
Precedence relationships
Activity resource estimating
Activity duration estimating
Estimating approaches
Schedule development
Critical path method (CPM)
Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)
Critical chain techniques
Schedule negotiations
Schedule control
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Project Cost Management
Cost management plan
Cost estimating
Estimating checklist
Learning curve
Cost budgeting
Reserve
Project life cycle costs
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Project Control
Controlling the project plan
Assessing change
Variance analysis and management
Proactive review process
Earned value management
Causes of schedule delays
Escalation
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Project Risk Management
Risk terminology
Risk management planning
Risk identification
Risk analysis – qualitative and quantitative
Risk response planning
Risk monitoring and control
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Project Human Resource Management
Organizational influences
Organizational structures
Human resource planning
Staff management plans and acquisition
Developing the project team
Team building and leadership
Approaches to conflict
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Project Quality Management
The importance of quality
Historical evolution of quality
Quality planning process
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