Project Management Professional (PMP)® Training & Certification

Execute project with the urgency required to deliver business value

• Assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally

• Examine the business value throughout the project

• Support the team to subdivide project tasks as necessary to find the minimumviable

product

• Manage communications

• Analyze communication needs of all stakeholders

• Determine communication methods, channels, frequency, and level of detail for all

stakeholders

• Communicate project information and updates effectively Confirm communication is

understood and feedback is received

• Assess and manage risks

• Determine risk management options Iteratively assess and prioritize risks

• Engage stakeholders

• Analyze stakeholders (e.g., power interest grid, influence, impact)• Categorize stakeholders

• Engage stakeholders by category

• Develop, execute, and validate a strategy for stakeholder engagement

• Plan and manage budget and resources

• Estimate budgetary needs based on the scope of the project and lessons learnedfrom

past projects

• Anticipate future budget challenges

• Monitor budget variations and work with governance process to adjust as necessary

• Plan and manage resources

• Plan and manage schedule

• Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points)

• Utilize benchmarks and historical data

• Prepare schedule based on methodology

• Measure ongoing progress based on methodology

• Modify schedule, as needed, based on methodology Coordinate with other projects and

other operations

• Plan and manage quality of products/deliverables

• Determine quality standard required for project deliverables

• Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps Continually survey project

deliverable quality

• Plan and manage scope

• Determine and prioritize requirements

• Break down scope (e.g., WBS, backlog) Monitor and validate scope

• Integrate project planning activities

• Consolidate the project/phase plans

• Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and continued businessvalue

• Analyze the data collected

• Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions Determine critical

information requirements

• Manage project changes

• Anticipate and embrace the need for change (e.g., follow change management practices)• Determine strategy to handle change

• Execute change management strategy according to the methodology Determine a

change response to move the project forward

• Plan and manage procurement

• Define resource requirements and needs

• Communicate resource requirements

• Manage suppliers/contracts

• Plan and manage procurement strategy Develop a delivery solution

• Manage project artifacts

• Determine the requirements (what, when, where, who, etc.) for managing theproject

artifacts

• Validate that the project information is kept up to date (i.e., version control) and

accessible to all stakeholders

• Continually assess the effectiveness of the management of the project artifacts

• Determine appropriate project methodology/methods and practices

• Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude

• Recommend project execution strategy (e.g., contracting, finance)

• Recommend a project methodology/approach (i.e., predictive, agile, hybrid)

• Use iterative, incremental practices throughout the project life cycle (e.g.,

lessonslearned, stakeholder engagement, risk)

• Establish project governance structure

• Determine appropriate governance for a project (e.g., replicate organizational

governance)

• Define escalation paths and thresholds

• Manage project issues

• Recognize when a risk becomes an issue

• Attack the issue with the optimal action to achieve project success Collaborate with

relevant stakeholders on the approach to resolve the issues

• Ensure knowledge transfer for project continuity

• Discuss project responsibilities within team

• Outline expectations for working environment Confirm approach for knowledge

transfers• Plan and manage project/phase closure or transitions

• Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase

• Validate readiness for transition (e.g., to operations team or next phase)

• Conclude activities to close out project or phase (e.g., final lessons

learned,retrospective, procurement, financials, resources)

Plan and manage project compliance

• Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and safety, regulatory

compliance)

• Classify compliance categories

• Determine potential threats to compliance

• Use methods to support compliance

• Analyze the consequences of noncompliance

• Determine necessary approach and action to address compliance needs (e.g.,risk, legal)

• Measure the extent to which the project is in compliance

• Evaluate and deliver project benefits and value

• Investigate that benefits are identified

• Document agreement on ownership for ongoing benefit realization

• Verify measurement system is in place to track benefits

• Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value Appraise stakeholders of value gain

progress

• Evaluate and address external business environment changes for

impact on scope

• Survey changes to external business environment (e.g., regulations, technology,

geopolitical, market)

• Assess and prioritize impact on project scope/backlog based on changes inexternal

business environment

• Recommend options for scope/backlog changes (e.g., schedule, cost changes)

Continually review external business environment for impacts on projectscope/backlog

• Support organizational change

• Assess organizational culture

• Evaluate impact of organizational change to project and determine requiredactions

Evaluate impact of the project to the organization and determine required actions