Thursdays – Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 2025. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
PM Star has designed its most popular classroom PMP exam prep workshop to a live, virtual environment! Employing one of the top online learning facilitation tools, aspiring PMPs will experience real, classroom-style learning from their own computer. In addition to world-class instruction from experts, our Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) keeps virtual learners engaged with live chats, whiteboards, surveys, polls, feedback, small breakout rooms, file sharing, testing/quizzing, and numerous other e-learning features.
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Newly designed to maximize participant engagement in a live, virtual environment and progressively prepare 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 successful completion of their PMP certification project.
All material required to pass the PMP exam is included below:
Color, interactive student manual (not just printouts of the instructor slides) expanding on PMI PMBOK Guide–Sixth & Seventh Editions and Agile Practice Guide material in detail. YES, we are 100% compliant with the 2021 PMI exam blueprint and, of course, the latest PMBOK® Guide-Seventh Edition!
12 pages of study aids with the “must-know” formulas and famous ITTO’s.
100s of flashcards.
60-page PMBOK® Guide—Sixth & Seventh Editions and Agile Practice guide condensed study notes.
Access to our globally recognized PMP® exam simulator with over 2,000 questions.
Student class material will be shipped to each participant one week before the start date.
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.
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.
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.
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 there are over one million PMP credential holders providing project management services in more than 170 countries.
To obtain the PMP certification, an individual must satisfy education and experience requirements, agree to adhere to a code of professional conduct, and pass the PMP Certification Exam.
Need help to document your PMI application experience? Ask Cindy to assist you in documenting your project experience.
2025 SCHEDULE
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