PME100: Project Management Essentials (CAPM) Certification Exam Prep

About this Course

This course helps individuals gain more responsibility and increase their skills in their current project role by providing additional knowledge of current project management principles and terminology to work on a wide range of projects using a variety of approaches: agile, predictive, and hybrid.

It can help prepare individuals for a CAPM certification, essential to gain entry and contributes to career opportunities at entry and associate levels, such as project coordinator and junior project manager. Whether you are looking to build on your current skillset or pursue an exciting new career, the CAPM distinguishes your skills and empowers you to build the project management career of your dreams.

This course provides the essential knowledge in building a career as a project manager and provides the foundational knowledge and skills that project teams demand. It focuses on an individual’s knowledge of Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts. It also includes components related to Predictive plan-based methods, Adaptive (agile) frameworks/methods, and Business Analysis frameworks.

Audience Profile

Any individual wanting to build their career as a project manager.

At Course Completion

This course provides information relating to an individual’s understanding of:

Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
Predictive Plan-Based Methods
Adaptive (Agile) Frameworks/Methods
Business Analysis Frameworks

See below for the course objectives.

Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts

Demonstrate an understanding of the various project life cycles and processes.
Distinguish between predictive and adaptive approaches.
Demonstrate an understanding of project management planning.
Demonstrate an understanding of project roles and responsibilities.
Explain the importance of the role the project manager plays.
Determine how to follow and execute and respond to planned strategies of frameworks – e.g., communication, risks, etc.
Demonstrate an understanding of common problem-solving tools and techniques.

Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies

Identify the suitability of a predictive, plan-based approach for an organizational structure (e.g., virtual, colocation, matrix structure, hierarchical, etc.).
Determine and give examples of the activities within each process.
Demonstrate an understanding of a project management plan schedule.
Determine how to document project controls of predictive, plan-based projects.

Agile Frameworks/Methodologies

Explain when it is appropriate and sustainable to use an adaptive approach for the organizational structure.
Compare the pros and cons of adaptive and predictive, plan-based projects.
Identify the suitability of adaptive approaches for the organizational structure (e.g., virtual, colocation, matrix structure, hierarchical, etc.).
Identify organizational process assets and environmental factors that facilitate the use of adaptive approaches.
Determine how to plan project iterations.
Determine how to document project controls for an adaptive project.
Distinguish between the components of different adaptive methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Scaled Adaptive Framework (SAFe), Kanban, etc.).
Determine how to prepare and execute task management steps.

Business Analysis Frameworks

Demonstrate an understanding of business analysis (BA)roles and responsibilities.
Demonstrate the importance of stakeholder and team communication to the business analyst role.
Determine how to gather requirements and using the best approach for a situation.
Explain the application of a product roadmap.
Determine how project methodologies influence business analysis processes.
Validate requirements through product delivery.

Outline

Lesson 1 – Fundamentals and Core Concepts

Project Management Discipline
Organizational Project Management (OPM)
Organization Structures
Project Management Office (PMO)
Organizational Influences
Life Cycles and Processes
Development Approaches
Organizational Culture
Change Management

Lesson 2 – Leadership

Leadership vs. Management
Leadership Styles
Servant Leadership
Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Lesson 3 – Roles and Responsibilities

Project Management Roles
Stakeholder Roles
Project Management Skills and Competencies
Importance of Project Management
Project Manager Influence
Motivational Theories/Approaches

Lesson 4 – Project Initiation

Project Initiation
Project Charter and Kick-off Meetings
Benefits Planning
Product Roadmaps
Stakeholders
Stakeholder Communications
Communications Management Plan
Stakeholder Engagement Plan

Lesson 5 – Project Management Planning

Planning Concepts
Project vs. Product Management Plan
Compliance and Quality
Risk and Uncertainty
Integrate Plans
Planned Strategies and Frameworks

Lesson 6 – Predictive

Predictive Approaches
Process Groups
Project Planning Components
Requirements
Requirements/Data Gathering Approaches
Project Management Plan – Scope, Schedule and Cost
Predictive Estimating Techniques
Resources
Quality and Risk
Project Integrations
Project Baselines
Predictive Artifacts
Project Controls and Measurement – Scope, Scheduled and Cost
Earned Value Management (EVM)
Control Quality

Lesson 7 – Adaptive

Agile Mindset, Methodologies, and Frameworks
Adaptive Plans
Adaptive Scope and Iterations
Adaptive Schedules
Adaptive Estimating and Prioritization
Adaptive Teams
Activities and Artifacts
Tracking and Measuring Progress
Uncertainty and Risk

Lesson 8 – Business Analysis

What is Business Analysis (BA)
Business Analysis Domains
BA Roles and Responsibilities
Methodology Influences
Validate Requirements

Lesson 9 – Project Closure

Project or Phase Closure
Benefits Realization
Knowledge Transfer

Prerequisites

None.