About PMI-SP® – exam prep

Getting Started

• Introductions
• Course structure
• Course goals and objectives

Becoming a PMI-SP

• Overview of the PMI-SPcredential
• Eligibility requirements
• The PMI-SPapplication process
• Benefits of achieving certification

Scheduling Concepts and Standards

• Role of the Practice Standard for Scheduling
• The schedule development process
• Essential elements of a schedule
• Scheduling components
• Schedule conformance and scoring

Schedule Domains

• Schedule mission management
• Schedule creation
• Schedule maintenance
• Schedule analysis
• Schedule communication/reporting

Project Integration Management

• Role of organizational process assets
• Role of enterprise environmental factors
• Project charter
• Project management plan

✓ Project baseline

✓ Subsidiary plans

• Managing changes
• Reviewing and correcting project work
• Closing the project or phase

Project Scope Management

• Project scope statement components
• Role of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Managing changes

Project Time Management

• Scheduling processes integrated with other PMBOK Guide processes
• Defining activities

✓ Enterprise environmental factors

✓ Organizational process assets

✓ Decomposing the WBS

• Sequencing activities

✓ Arrow diagramming method

✓ Precedence diagramming method

• Estimating activity resources

✓ Determining resource needs

✓ Using various techniques to plan for

• Estimating activity durations

✓ Differentiating between various estimating techniques

✓ Calculating an estimate from a formula

• Developing the schedule
• Conducting the forward pass/backward pass
• Calculating the critical path
• Controlling the schedule

✓ Conducting performance reviews

✓ Analyzing variances

✓ Updates to various project documents

Project Cost Management

• Role of the schedule in cost estimating
• Techniques for estimating
• Budgeting techniques
• Cost performance baseline
• Earned Value Management (EVM)

Project Human Resource Management

• Human resource processes
• Components of the human resource plan
• Techniques for obtaining a project team
• Techniques for developing the project team
• Resolving team conflicts

Project Communications Management

• Communication processes
• Defining a communication approach
• Communication models/methods
• Communication management plan
• Reporting to others
• Performance reports

Project Risk Management

• Risk management processes
• Planning for risks
• Controlling risks