PMP Preparation

Areas of PM

100

• Multiple relate projects
• Achieve Benefits
• Program Manager and Projects managers
• PgMP

What is Program Management?

200

The centralized management of one or more project portfolios to achieve strategic objectives

What is Portfolio Management?

300

A collection of projects and programs that are managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives

What is Portfolio?

400

• Supportive – consultative roles, templates, training
• Controlling – compliance through a framework, specific forms and templates, governance
• Directive – directly manages the project as the PMO owns and controls the project life cycle

What are Project Management Office Types?

500

Here is a list of characteristics

• Support project managers
• Manage shared resources across the PMO
• Coaching, mentoring, and training
• Conducting project audits
• Developing and managing processes and procedures
• Facilitation communications across projects

• What is Project Management Offices (PMO)?

PM Terms

100

• It is temporary – has a starting point and an ending point
• Developing new products or services
• Moving, adding, changing, or deleting
• Implementing new service or solution

What is a Project?

200

• It is on-going
• It has repetitive actions
• It requires Maintenance
• It is at the core business functions

What is an Operation?

300

• Coordinate, manage, and control projects, programs and portfolio management in a uniform, consistent effort.
• Consistently deliver better projects

What is Organizational Project Management (OPM)

400

• A type of organization that their income is based from doing projects for others

What is a Project-based organizations?

500

The internal and external factors that influence a project, including the physical location

What is the Project Environment?

Definitions

100

A guide to the project management body of knowledge

What is the PMBOK guide?

200

• Strengths,
• Weaknesses,
• Opportunities,
• Threats

What is SWOT?

300

• Initiate
• Planning
• Executing
• Monitoring & Controlling
• Closing

What are the 5 process groups?

400

• Integration   Resource
• Scope          Communication
• Schedule      Risk
• Cost             Procurement
• Quality         Stakeholders

What are the 10 Knowledge Areas?

500

• This knowledge area has a process in every process group.
• Develop Project Charter
• Develop Project Mgmt. Plan
• Direct & Manage Project work
• Manage Project Knowledge
• Perform Integrate Change Control
• Monitor & control Project work
• Close Project/Phase

What is Integration?

Project Mgmt Components

100

An uncontrolled project addition that changed what a project includes and excludes

What is scope creep?

200

This process group has the most processes than any other process

What is the process Planning?  

300

• Raw data and facts about the project work
• Status of project work assignments
• Data can include
• Cost of the activities
• Number of change request
• Number of Defects
• Number of Durations

What is Work Performance Data (WPD)?

400

• Change-driven
• Agile project management
• Rapid iterations or project work
• Backlog of requirements
• Changes to the project scope are expected

What is an Adaptive Life Cycles?

500

• Project business case
• Project charter
• Project management plan
• Benefits management plan

What are business documents?

More Project Mgmt Components

100

This process group has only one process.

• Close Project/Phase

• What is Closing?

200

An activity conducted to a produce an output

What is a process?

300

A significant point or event in a project.

What is a milestone?

400

• Plan driven
• Waterfall approach
• Predicts the project life cycle
• Changes to scope are tightly controlled

What is a Predictive Life Cycle?

500

• Economic feasibility study
• Validity of benefits the project will create
• Future project management decisions and actions
• Maintained throughout the project

What is a Project Business Case?