Learning Objectives

• Provide all pertinent knowledge from the latest version of the PMBOK® Guide.
• Explain the five stages of a project life cycle and illustrate how these stages can overlap in time.
• Demonstrate how to create a project management plan with subsidiary plans for each of the knowledge areas and explain how progressive elaboration and integrated change management can keep these documents effective and relevant.
• Illustrate how a project's various baselines (including scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, procurement, and others) are determined, planned for, and managed.
• Recognize how to effectively manage resources and communicate with all stakeholders.
• Explain the key methods used to estimate project schedule and cost at the beginning of a project and to forecast cost and schedule variances at any time during the project.
• Identify key project stakeholders and continuously engage them in appropriate project activities.
• Provide practice test questions to be completed throughout the bootcamp.

Course Overview and Agenda

The PME CAPM® Exam Boot Camp course provides the knowledge the student needs to evolve their career as a successful Certified Associate in Project Management and get ready for the PMI CAPM® Exam. This course fulfills the required 23-hour PMI contact hour requirement.

Discussion topics include: The Ten Knowledge Areas of Project Management: Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement and Stakeholder. The Five Process Groups of Project Management: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. Two additional topics: Professional and Social Responsibility and Framework.

Day 1:
Introduction and Overview
Exam Registration
Overhead and Exam Environment
Assessment Test
Initiating Process Group
Exercise and Quiz

• Integration Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Time Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Communications Management

Day 3:
Review
Planning Process Group:

• Project Risk Management
• Project Procurement Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Stakeholder Management

Executing Process Group:

• Project Integration Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Procurement Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Communications Management
• Project Stakeholder Management

Day 4
Review
Monitoring and Controlling Process Group

• Project Integration Management
• Project Procurement Management
• Project Communications Management
• Project Stakeholder Management
• Project Risk Management
• Project Time Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Scope Management
• Closing Process Group
• Project Integration Management
• Project Procurement Management
• Social and Professional Responsibility