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We regularly schedule public PMP, CAPM and PMI-RMP exam prep workshops in Toronto, Mississauga, Kitchener and London locations.  View calendar here.

Project Management Professional (PMP) – 1.5m+ PMPs worldwide.
 

The PMP credential is the most important industry-recognized certification for project managers. Globally recognized and demanded, the PMP®demonstrates that you have the experience, education and competency to lead and direct projects.

This recognition is seen through increased marketability to employers and higher salaries; according to the PMI Project Management Salary Survey–Eighth Edition, certification positively impacts project manager salaries.

  • An integrated blended learning environment designed to progressively prepare aspiring PMP candidates until they are confident to pass the PMP exam.
  • Facilitated by seasoned PMP credential holder exam coaches, with team and individual exercises.
  • Students have ongoing access to their PMP coach until their PMP certification project is successfully completed.
  • All material (100% compliant with Jan 2, 2021, PMI exam) required to pass the PMP exam is included below:
  1. Color, interactive student manual (not just printouts of the instructor slides).
  2. 16 pages of study aid with the “must know” formulas, famous ITTOs, predictive, agile and hybrid methodologies.
  3. 100s of flash cards for study recall.
  4. 60-page condensed study notes.
  5. Access to a globally recognized PMP® exam simulator with over 2,000 questions.

  • 4 days of instructor-led training in a small class environment with a dedicated PMP credential holder coach.
  • Color manual expanding on PMBOK® Guide–Seventh Edition and PMI Process Groups and Agile Practice Guide material in detail.
  • YES, we are 100% compliant with January 2, 2021, PMI exam blueprint.
  • PMP exam simulator with 2,000+ questions.
  • Condensed PMBOK® Guide study notes (60 pages).
  • 12 double-sided laminated job aids with study tips.
  • Various exercises reinforce key learning concepts.
  • One-on-one personal coaching assistance.

EXAM LOGISTICS

  • PMP® exam blueprint.
  • Types of questions.
  • Project Manager Role Delineation Study (RDS).
  • Develop your customized study plan.
  • Exam study tips.
  • What to expect on exam day.

PM FOUNDATION

  • Relationships among Portfolio Management, Programs, Operations, etc.
  • Organizational influences and Project Life Cycle.
  • Enterprise environmental factors.
  • Organizational process assets.
  • Defining, importance, and governance of stakeholders.
  • Understanding the 3 project management domains – (People, Process and Business Environment) from Predictive, Agile/Adaptive, and Hybrid project management methodologies “tailoring” perspectives.
  • Pilots’ view of PMBOK Guide – Sixth edition (5 Process Groups, 10 Knowledge Areas and 49 Processes); PMBOK Guide – Seventh edition (8 Domains and 12 Principles); SCRUM (3 Roles, 4 Artifacts, and 5 Events); in easy-to-understand language.

INITIATE PROJECT

  • Develop Project Charter: Formal authorization of the project or phase.
    • Develop Vision statement; Product Roadmap
  • Identify Stakeholders: Document stakeholders’ interests, power, expectations and potential impact on the project.
    • Appoint team

  • Develop Project Management Plan: Document actions to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate subsidiary plans into the project management plan.
    • Release and SPRINT Planning
    • SCRUM Strategies
  • Plan Stakeholder Engagement: Determine appropriate strategies to manage stakeholders.
  • Plan Scope Management: The plan on how the scope will be defined, validated and controlled.
  • Collect Requirements: Defining and documenting stakeholders’ needs to meet project objectives.
    • Epics
    • User Stories
  • Define Scope: Develop a detailed description of the project and product as a basis for future decisions.
    • Product Backlog
  • Create WBS: Subdividing major deliverables into smaller components.
    • SPRINT Backlog
  • Plan Schedule Management: How the schedule will be developed, managed, controlled etc.
  • Define Activities: Decomposing the WBS completed during scope into activity lists.
    • SPRINT Backlog tasks
  • Sequence Activities: Determining the dependencies for each activity.
    • Prioritize backlog
  • Estimate Activity Durations: How long will each activity take with the resources we have assigned?
    • Lightweight, Relative estimates
  • Develop Schedule: Producing the schedule baseline. We will work through a network diagram to calculate each activity’s critical path and float.
    • SPRINT planning meeting
  • Plan Resource Management: Define how to estimate, acquire, manage, and utilize physical and team resources. Identifying roles and responsibilities. A.k.a. the infamous RACI chart.
  • Estimate Activity Resources: Estimating the types and quantities of resources required to complete the activities.
  • Plan Cost Management: The plan on how the budget will be developed, managed, controlled etc.
  • Estimate Costs: What does each activity cost?
    • Lightweight, Relative estimates
  • Determine Budget: Rolling up all the activity costs to determine the cost baseline we will measure our cost performance against.
  • Plan Communications Management: Communication plan on whom, what and how frequently we will communicate the project information.

  • Plan Risk Management: Assessing stakeholder tolerances to risk and creating the risk management plan for managing risk on the project.
  • Identify Risks: Brainstorm a list of risks.
  • Perform qualitative analysis: Is the probability and impact of the risks high, low, or medium? I think/gut feel about the risks.
  • Perform quantitative analysis: More detailed analysis to quantify the risk. 80% probability the risk will occur with a $50,000 impact on the project. Putting numbers to the risk.
  • Plan Risk Response: Now that we have ranked the risks, what will be our response/action to prioritized risks? Choices to threats – Avoid, Mitigate, Transfer or Accept. Choices to opportunities – Avoid, Enhance, Exploit, Share or Accept.
  • Plan Quality: Identify the standards, determine the quality metrics and create the quality management plan to obtain overall quality.
    • User story acceptance criteria
    • Definition of done (DOD)
  • Plan Procurement Management: Make or buy analysis. Creating the procurement management plan reflects what type of contract we should negotiate. i.e. Fixed Price, Cost Plus, and/or Time and Materials. Creating the CSOW, evaluation criteria and preparing the procurement documents for the potential vendors. i.e. proposals, requests for quotes/bids etc.
  • Professional & Social Responsibility
    • Review the PMI® code of conduct. It’s basic ethics, but a must-know for the exam and as a “soon to be practicing PMP”!
    • The 4 PMI® core values: Responsibility; Respect; Fairness; Honesty.
    • Ethics and common sense.
    • Cultural Competence.

  • Manage Stakeholder Engagement: Process to communicate with stakeholders to meet their needs and address their issues.
  • Monitor Stakeholder Engagement: Monitoring overall stakeholder relationships and adjusting strategies to ensure engagement.
  • Manage Communications: Issue management with the stakeholders to ensure conflicts/issues are resolved promptly.
  • Monitor Communications: Collecting and communicating all the project performance. Forecasting project performance and taking corrective action as required.
  • Validate Scope: Formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables.
  • Control Scope: Monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
  • Control Schedule: Monitoring the schedule compared to the plan and taking appropriate action.
  • Control Costs: Influencing the factors that create cost variances and taking corrective action as necessary
  • Manage Quality: Evaluate our processes to ensure we will satisfy the quality standards in the quality plan.
  • Control Quality: Inspect the various project deliverables and results to ensure they meet the standards.
  • Implement Risk Responses:  Implementing agreed-upon risk response plans.
  • Monitor Risk: Keeping an eye on unplanned risks and monitoring identified risks for appropriate action.
  • Conduct Procurement: Select sellers and award contracts. Contract negotiations.
  • Control Procurement: Manage seller relationships, review seller performance and manage contract-related changes. Close procurement.
  • Acquire Resources: Obtaining team members, facilities, equipment, material and other resources.
  • Develop Team: Motivate and develop the team to enhance project performance.
  • Manage Team: Track team performance, provide feedback and resolve conflict.
  • Control Resources:  Ensuring the physical resources are available as planned.
  • Direct and Manage Project Work: Execute the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the requirements in the scope statement.
  • Manage Project Knowledge: Using existing knowledge and creating new knowledge.
  • Monitor & Control Project Work: Monitor and control the processes to meet the performance objectives.
  • Perform Integrated Change Control: Reviewing change requests, approving change requests and controlling changes.
  • Close Project or Phase: Finalize all activities to formally close the project or phase.

WRAP-UP

  • Next steps
  • Customized study plan
  • QnA

  • Increase your probability of passing the exam by focusing only on relevant exam topics.
  • Develop a personal study plan based on your strengths, weaknesses and learning style. Use our recommended 14-day study plan.
  • Understand the elimination process to help answer any question correctly.
  • Learn tricks for selecting the BEST answer per PMI® best practices.
  • Exercises and condensed notes help you conceptualize and understand (not memorize) the information you need to know, including those dreaded formulas!
  • Practice in a PMP exam simulator, just like the real exam environment.
  • Test your recall with 100s of flash cards.

This PMP prep workshop INCLUDES:

  • 4 days of instructor-led instruction.
  • Color student manual.
  • 180 days unlimited access to PMP exam simulator 2,000+ questions.
  • Personal one-on-one coaching until PMP certification is successfully achieved! 100% guarantee!
  • Assistance on how to submit PMP exam application for PMI approval.

Not sure? eMAIL YOUR QUESTION NOW.

FEE: $1,895 plus applicable taxes.

  • The PMP certification is the profession’s most globally recognized and respected certification credential.
  • The PMP designation following your name tells current and potential employers that you have a solid foundation of project management knowledge that can be readily applied in the workplace.
  • Worldwide, more than 1.5 million PMP credential holders provide project management services in more than 170 countries.
  • To obtain the PMP certification, an individual must satisfy education and experience requirements, agree to and adhere to a code of professional conduct, and pass the PMP Certification Exam.
  • Need help documenting your PMI application?   Ask Cindy to assist you in documenting your project experience.

Our FAQ section is currently under construction.  Thank you for your patience while we build our list of FAQs.

Tuesdays – June 3, 10, 17, 24.  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST)

Thursdays – Oct 2, 09, 16, 23.  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST).

PMP in-class workshops are currently not scheduled for 2025.

Contact us for an on-site quote. We will respond within 1 business day.

Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®  41,000 worldwide.

The CAPM is a valuable entry-level certification for project practitioners. Designed for those with little or no project experience, the CAPM® demonstrates your understanding of the fundamental knowledge, terminology and processes of effective project management.

Whether new to project management or already contributing as a subject matter expert on project teams, the CAPM can propel your career on the right path or take it to the next level.

  • An integrated blended learning environment designed to progressively prepare aspiring CAPM® candidates until they are confident to pass the CAPM® exam.
  • Facilitated by only seasoned PMP/CAPM exam coaches, with team and individual exercises.
  • Students have ongoing access to their personal CAPM® coach until successful completion of their CAPM® certification project.
  • All material required to pass the CAPM® exam is included as below:
  1. Color, interactive student manual (not just printouts of the instructor slides).
  2. 12 laminated pages of study aids with the “must know” formulas and famous ITTO’s.
  3. 100s of flash cards.
  4. 60-page PMBOK® Guide—Sixth Edition condensed study notes.
  5. Access to our globally recognized CAPM® exam simulator with over 900 questions.

  • 4 days on-site training in a small class environment with a dedicated CAPM® Coach.
  • Color manual expanding on PMBOK® Guide–Sixth Edition material in detail. YES we are 100% compliant with the July 31, 2013, PMI® exam blueprint and of course the PMBOK® Guide-Sixth Edition!
  • CAPM® exam simulator with 900+ questions.
  • Condensed PMBOK® Guide–Sixth Edition study notes (60 pages).
  • 12 double-sided laminated job aids with study tips.
  • Various exercises to reinforce key learning concepts.
  • One-on-one personal coaching assistance.

EXAM LOGISTICS

  • CAPM® exam blueprint.
  • Develop your own customized study plan.
  • Exam study tips.
  • What to expect on exam day.

PM FOUNDATION – Chapters 1 to 3

  • Relationships among Portfolio Management, Programs, Operations etc.
  • Organizational influences and Project Life Cycle.
  • Enterprise environmental factors.
  • Organizational process assets.
  • Defining, importance and governance of stakeholders.
  • Pilot view of the 5 processes, 10 knowledge areas and 49 processes.

SCOPE

  • Plan Scope Management: The plan on how the scope will be defined validated and controlled.
  • Collect Requirements: Defining and documenting stakeholders’ needs to ensure project objectives are met.
  • Define Scope: Developing detailed description of the project and product as a basis for future decisions.
  • Create WBS: Subdividing major deliverables into smaller components.
  • Validate Scope: Formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables.
  • Control Scope: Monitoring status of the project and product scope and managing changes to scope baseline.

STAKEHOLDER

  • Identify Stakeholders: Documenting stakeholder’s interest, power, expectations and potential impact on the project.
  • Plan Stakeholder Engagement: Determine appropriate strategies to manage stakeholders.
  • Manage Stakeholder Engagement: Process to communicate with stakeholders to meet their needs and address their issues.
  • Monitor Stakeholder Engagement: Monitoring overall stakeholder relationships and adjusting strategies to ensure engagement.

SCHEDULE

  • Plan Schedule Management: The plan on how the schedule will be developed, managed, controlled etc.
  • Define Activities: Decomposing the WBS completed during scope into activity lists.
  • Sequence Activities: Determining the dependencies for each activity.
  • Estimate Activity Durations: How long will each activity take with the resources we have assigned?
  • Develop Schedule: Producing the schedule baseline. We will work through a network diagram to calculate the critical path and float for each of the activities.
  • Control Schedule: Monitoring the schedule compared to the plan and take appropriate action.

RISK

  • Plan Risk Management: Assessing stakeholder tolerances to risk and creating the risk management plan on how we will manage risk on the project.
  • Identify Risks: Brainstorming a list of risks.
  • Perform qualitative analysis: Is the probability and impact of the risks high, low, or medium? I think/gut feel about the risks.
  • Perform quantitative analysis: More detailed analysis to quantify the risk. 80% probability the risk will occur with a $50,000 impact to the project. Putting numbers to the risk.
  • Plan Risk Response: Now that we have ranked the risks, what will be our response/action to prioritized risks. Choices to threats – avoid, mitigate, transfer or accept. Choices to opportunities are enhance, exploit, share or accept.
  • Implement Risk Responses:  Implementing agreed upon risk response plans.
  • Monitor Risks: Keeping an eye for unplanned risks and monitoring identified risks for appropriate action.

QUALITY

  • Plan Quality: Identify the standards, determine the quality metrics and create the quality management plan on how we will obtain overall quality.
  • Manage Quality: Evaluating our processes to ensure we will satisfy the quality standards set out in the quality plan.
  • Control Quality: Inspect the various project deliverables and results to ensure they met the standards.

COST

  • Plan Cost Management: The plan on how the budget will be developed, managed controlled etc.
  • Estimate Costs: What does each activity cost?
  • Determine Budget: Rolling up all the activity costs to determine the cost baseline which we will measure our cost performance against.
  • Control Costs: Influencing the factors that create cost variances and taking corrective action as necessary.

COMMUNICATIONS

  • Plan Communications Management: Develop the communication management plan on whom, what and how frequent we will communicate the project information.
  • Manage Communications: Issue management with the stakeholders to ensure conflict/issues are resolved in a timely manner.
  • Monitor Communications: Collecting and communicating all the project performance. Forecasting project performance and taking corrective action as needed.

PROCUREMENT

  • Plan Procurement Management: Make or buy analysis. Creating the procurement management plan which advises on what type of contract we should negotiate. i.e. Fixed Price; Cost plus; and/or Time and Materials. Creating the CSOW, evaluation criteria and preparing the procurement documents to the potential vendors. i.e. proposals, request for quotes/bids etc.
  • Conduct Procurement: Select sellers and awarding contracts. Contract negotiations.
  • Control Procurement: Manage seller relationship, review seller performance and manage contract related changes. Close procurments.

RESOURCES

  • Plan Resource Management: Define how to estimate, acquire, manage, and utilize physical and team resources. Identifying roles and responsibilities. A.k.a. the infamous RACI chart.
  • Estimate Activity Resources: Estimating the types and quantities of resources required to complete the activities.
  • Acquire Resources: Obtaining team members, facilities, equipment, material and other resources.
  • Develop Team: Motivate and develop the team to enhance project performance.
  • Manage Team: Track team performance, provide feedback and resolve conflict.
  • Control Resources:  Ensuring the physical resources are available as planned. Taking corrective action as required to meet the plan.

INTEGRATION

  • Develop Project Charter: Formal authorization of the project or phase.
  • Develop Project Mgmt Plan: Document actions to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate subsidiary plans into the project management plan.
  • Develop Project Management Plan: Document actions to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate subsidiary plans into the project management plan.
  • Direct and Manage Project Work: Execute the work defined in the project management plan to achieve requirements in scope statement.
  • Manage Project Knowledge:  Using existing knowledge and creating new knowledge.
  • Monitor & Control Project Work: Monitor and control the processes to meet the performance objectives.
  • Perform Integrated Change Control: Reviewing change requests, approving change requests and controlling changes.
  • Close Project or Phase: Finalize all activities to formally close the project or phase.

  • Increase your probability of passing the exam by focusing only on relevant exam topics.
  • Develop a personal study plan based on your strengths, weaknesses and learning style. Use our recommended 14-day study plan.
  • Understand the elimination process to help answer any question correctly.
  • Learn tricks for selecting the BEST answer per PMI® best practices.
  • Exercises and condensed notes help you conceptualize and understand, (not memorize) the information you need to know, including those dreaded formulas!
    Practice in a CAPM® exam simulator, just like the real exam environment.
  • Test your recall with 100s of flash cards.

This CAPM® prep workshop INCLUDES:
• 4 days in class instruction
• Color student manual
• 90 days unlimited access to CAPM® exam simulator 900+ questions
• Personal one-on-one coaching until CAPM® certification is successfully achieved! 100% guarantee!

Not sure? eMAIL A QUESTION NOW?
FEE: $2,195 Includes Breakfast, Lunch & Breaks.
We invoice after the first day of attendance

  • CAPM® certification is a valuable entry-level certification for project practitioners. Designed for those with little or no project experience, the CAPM® demonstrates your understanding of the fundamental knowledge, terminology and processes of effective project management.
  • Weather you are new to project management, or already serving as a subject matter expert on project teams, the CAPM® can get your career on the right path or take it to the next level.
  • Worldwide there are over 38,000 CAPM®s providing project management services in more than 170 countries.
  • To obtain the CAPM© credential, an individual must satisfy education or experience requirements, and pass the CAPM® Certification Exam.
  • eMail Cindy your questions.

Our FAQ section is currently under construction.  Thank you for your patience while we build our list of FAQ’s.

Register now in the next CAPM® prep workshop near you.

Don’t wait, as registration is limited! Payment is not required until after the first session.

Email for on-site quote. We will respond within 1 business day.

PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) – 5,400 worldwide.

There is no such thing as a no-risk project. Every project comes with risk.

We know you understand the value of risk identification, strategy and planning. In fact, your stakeholders and organizations depend on you to help them determine how much risk they are willing to assume within a project.  Validate your specialized expertise by becoming a PMI-RMP® credential holder?
As a PMI-RMP credential holder, you will leverage your knowledge, skills and project risk management competency to anticipate and mitigate risks in projects. And you will be able to offer a higher level of credentialed skills to your organization—giving you additional authority and competitive advantages.

Don’t wait – earn your PMI-RMP (PMI Risk Management Professional)® today!

2 day – PMI-RMP exam prep workshop

  • An integrated blended learning environment designed to progressively prepare aspiring PMI-RMP® candidates until they are confident to pass the PMI-RMP® exam.
  • Facilitated by only seasoned PMP® and PMI-RMP® exam coaches, with team and individual exercises.
  • Students have ongoing access to their personal PMI-RMP® coach until successful completion of their PMI-RMP® certification project.
  • All material required to pass the PMI-RMP® exam is included per below:
  1. Color, interactive student manual (not just printouts of the instructor slides).
  2. 12 laminated pages of study aids with the “must know” formulas and famous ITTO’s.
  3. 100s of flash cards.
  4. 60 page PMBOK® Guide—Sixth Edition condensed study notes.
  5. Access to our globally recognized PMI-RMP® exam simulator with over 800 questions.

  • 2 days on-site training in a small class environment with a dedicated PMP® Coach.
  • Colour manual expanding on PMBOK Guide–sixth edition material in detail. YES we are 100% compliant with the July 31, 2013 PMI-RMP® exam blueprint!
  • PMI-RMP® exam simulator with 800+ questions.
  • Condensed PMBOK® Guide study notes (60 pages).
  • 12 double sided laminated job aids with study tips.
  • Various exercises to reinforce key learning concepts.
  • One-on-one personal coaching assistance.

  • Course Structure
  • Application Process
  • Exam blueprint and strategies
  • 14 day study plan
  • Pilots view of the 5 Process groups, 10 Knowledge areas and 49 processes. PMBOK® Guide-Sixth Edition (Chapter 3)
  • Risk Strategy & Planning
  • Stakeholder Engagement

  • Risk Process Facilitation
  • Risk Monitoring and Reporting
  • Perform Specialized Risk Activities
  • Wrap Up
  • Exam study tips

  • Unlimited access to highly experienced facilitators.
  • Earn 50 PDUs.
  • Increase your probability of passing the exam by focusing only on relevant exam topics.
  • Develop a personal study plan based on your strengths, weaknesses and learning style. Use our recommended 14 day study plan.
  • Understand the elimination process to help answer any question correctly.
  • Learn tricks for selecting the BEST answer per PMI® best practices.
  • Exercises and condensed notes help you conceptualize and understand, (not memorize) the information you need to know, including those dreaded formulas!
  • Practice in a PMI-RMP® exam simulator, just like the real exam environment.
  • Test your recall with 100s of flash cards.

  • This PMI-RMP® prep workshop INCLUDES:
    • 2 days in class instruction
    • Colour student manual
    • 90 days unlimited access to PMI-RMP® exam simulator 800+ questions
    • Personal one-on-one coaching until PMI-RMP® certification is successfully achieved! 100% guarantee!
  • Not sure? eMAIL A QUESTION NOW?

FEE: $1,495 Includes Breakfast, Lunch & Breaks.
We invoice after the first day of attendance.

  • The PMI-RMP® credential recognizes demonstrated knowledge and expertise in the specialized area of assessing and identifying project risks while mitigating threats and capitalizing on opportunities.
  • Worldwide there are over 5,200 PMI-RMP®s providing project management services in more than 170 countries.
  • To obtain PMI-RMP® certification, an individual must satisfy education and experience requirements, agree to and adhere to a code of professional conduct, and pass the PMI-RMP® Certification Exam.
  • Ask Cindy to assist you in documenting your hours.

Our FAQ section is currently under construction.  Thank you for your understanding while we build our list of FAQ’s.

Register now in the next PMI-RMP® prep workshop near you.

Don’t wait, as registration is limited! Remember payment is not required until after the first session.

Email for on site quote. We will respond within 1 business day.