Project Management Courses and Certificate Programs

Project Management Professional (PMP) Preparation

OneStopProject has a well written book that embodies all the topics that will be addressed on the preparation course. The course can be taken in a conventional classroom environment online. The objectives of both courses are the same. This is an intensive course that will prepare future PMPs to take and pass the PMP certification exams. To take the exams, one has to meet the PMI PMP exams prerequisites that can be located at pmi.org.

Requirements to take the PMP exams

• 7500 hours of project management experience for a period of sixty months, if you do not have a degree.
• 4500 hours of project management experience for a period of over thirty-six hours for a degree holder. Minimum of 35 hours of project management classroom/eLearning training instructions.
• Complete and submit the PMP certification application directly to PMI.

To be awarded the PMP certification, you must pass the 4-hour computer-based 200-question exam. Passing the PMP exams it attests to one’s core knowledge and understanding of critical project management concepts, principles and techniques. The PMP credential sets individual project managers apart from the project managers without the credentials in the world.

The following people can benefit from the course:

• Project team
• Project managers
• Project coordinators
• Entrepreneurs
• Top Executives [CEO , CFO , CTO , COO , Directors]
• Anyone in the technical team
• General and Administrative Managers
• Sales & Marketing professionals

Course Overview

• What it takes to become a PMP?
• The necessary process involved in becoming a PMP.
• Project Management Context and Framework – This module consists of the key fundamentals of project management. It covers the sponsor, life cycles and the main skills and expectations of project managers.
• Project integration Management - This module consists of plan development, integration of various components of the project, execution, and integrated change control. This is to ensure that the various aspects of project management are properly coordinated in an integrated and cohesive fashion.
• Project Scope Management - This module consists of planning, definition, verification, and change control. This is to ensure that the project include all the the work and only the work required to ensure required to complete the project successfully.
• Project Time Management - This module consists of activity definition, sequencing, duration estimation, and schedule development and management. This is to ensure that the project is completed in a timely manner.
• Project Cost Management - This module consists of resource planning, cost estimating, budgeting and control. This is to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget.
• Project Quality Management - This module consists of planning, assurance, and control. This is to ensure that the project will correctly satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
• Project Human Resource Management - This module consists of project organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development. This is to ensure that the resources on the project are utilized effectively employing the processes, tools and techniques.
• Project Communications Management - This module consists of communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and administrative closure. This is to ensure timely generation, collection, dissemination, storage and ultimate disposition material on the project electronically or manually.
• Project Risk Management - This module consists of risk management planning, risk identification, risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and control. This is to ensure that risks are responded effectively.
• Project Procurement Management - This module consists of procurement planning, solicitation, source selection, contract administration, and contract closeout. This is to ensure that appropriate processes, and tools & techniques to acquire the goods for the project scope are attained from outside the performing establishment.