PMBOK(r) Guide: 6th Edition (2021 update)
Edition:
- 33 Courses | 26h 14m 23s
- 4 Books | 31h 7m
- 35 Courses | 28h 28m 44s
- 6 Books | 50h 58m
- Includes Test Prep
Develop in-depth project management knowledge and skills based upon the Project Management Institute's PMBOK Guide. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) is a set of standard terminology and guidelines for project management. The body of knowledge has grown and changed over time and is presented in their guide. Here you'll learn the best project management skills, methodologies, and practices.
GETTING STARTED
Project Management Introduction (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
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43s
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4m 13s
GETTING STARTED
Exploring Project Management, Then and Now (2021 Update)
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32s
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2m 34s
COURSES INCLUDED
Project Management Introduction (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
If you're responsible for managing projects, understanding the project basics i essential. Project management is affected at every stage by the organization, the social environment, the project stakeholders, and many other aspects of the context in which the project is carried out. This training helps you understand what you need to know before planning begins. This course covers key project management concepts and terms, and provides information about the variables that can influence project outcomes.
11 videos |
45m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Project Fundamentals (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Knowing the project basics is essential before you begin managing projects. Each project fundamental is an element or characteristic that all projects have in common. This course covers the project and product life cycles and project phases, and introduces the process groups and knowledge areas in the PMBOK(r) Guide.
9 videos |
35m
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PMI PDU
The Process Groups (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects is easier with a solid knowledge of project management processes. This course covers the process groups and knowledge areas in the PMBOK(r) Guide, along with their key interactions with each other.
11 videos |
46m
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PMI PDU
Project Initiation and Planning (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
A high degree of coordination is required to enable a project team to move from project initiation and project planning to a successful project close. If you're responsible for managing projects, the CAPM(r) is an asset that will enhance your credibility and effectiveness. CAPM training helps build and reinforce the knowledge you need for thoroughly planning projects. This course introduces project integration management activities, including developing the project charter and the project management plan.
10 videos |
52m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Managing Project Work (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
This training will ensure you have the knowledge you need to manage those unforeseen events and difficulties that inevitably crop up along the way. This course covers the Direct and Manage Project Work, Manage Project Knowledge, and Monitor and Control Project Work processes.
11 videos |
56m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Project Changes and Closing (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
When managing projects, effective change management is necessary to keep those projects on course. This training will ensure you have the knowledge you need to stay on track toward successfully closing a project. This course teaches you how to apply the Perform Integrated Change Control process. It also explains the Close Project or Phase process.
9 videos |
41m
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PMI PDU
Capturing, Analyzing, and Using Project Lessons Learned
To help an organization grow and experience superior performance, it's necessary for project managers to learn from past experiences. Lessons learned can then be incorporated when managing projects in the future, resulting in fewer mistakes, lower costs, more accurate estimates, and many other project efficiencies. This course covers collecting, analyzing, managing and passing on lessons learned.
10 videos |
45m
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PMI PDU
Strategically Focused Project Management
Managing projects means having a project strategy. Strategic projects remain in line with company goals and deliver on expected value. This course covers best practices for strategic project management. You'll learn about strategy and the creation of a project charter through to closing the project. We'll also discuss how to manage stakeholder relationships, with the goal of keeping stakeholders' expectations in line with strategic goals.
10 videos |
47m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Plan and Define Project Scope (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
This training will ensure you understand what you need to know when defining and managing project scope. In this course, you'll learn how to plan scope management and use the Collect Requirements process. You'll also learn how to produce your project scope statement with the Define Scope process.
10 videos |
52m
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PMI PDU
Create Work Breakdown Structure (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects efficiently means planning carefully and controlling the workflow. This training will ensure you have the knowledge you need to define the scope and organize the deliverables. This course focuses on a single process in project management: the Create Work Breakdown Structure process, or Create WBS. It introduces the characteristics and purpose of a WBS, and covers the Create WBS process.
10 videos |
50m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Validate and Control Scope (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
If you're responsible for managing projects, you must ensure they meet stakeholder expectations and come in on time and on budget. This training helps build and reinforce the knowledge you need for scope management throughout a project. This course covers the Validate Scope and Control Scope project management processes.
9 videos |
36m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Define and Sequence Activities (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
This training will ensure you have the knowledge you need to manage the project schedule. This course covers the Define Activities and Sequence Activities processes in project schedule management.
13 videos |
55m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Develop the Project Schedule (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
When managing projects, you need to make an educated guess of how long the work is going to take so you can control the project schedule. In this course, you'll learn how to estimate activity durations and develop a project schedule for better time management.
19 videos |
1h 20m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Control the Project Schedule (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Successfully managing projects requires monitoring activities to discover and correct any project schedule variances, evaluating the effective schedule changes on all project activities, and making adjustments as required to minimize risk to your project schedule. This training will enhance your project time management skills and ensure you have the knowledge you need to define the project schedule and use it to keep the project on track. In this course, you'll learn how to apply useful techniques to control the project schedule and improve your time management.
9 videos |
36m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Creating a Project Budget (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects requires developing realistic budgets and then keeping them on track. This training will ensure you have the knowledge you need to manage the project budget. In this course, you'll learn how to plan cost management, estimate costs, and determine budget for project costs.
10 videos |
42m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Keeping Your Project on Budget (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects requires establishing the budget and ensuring it's adhered to. This training will ensure you have the knowledge you need to control the project budget and keep the project on track. This course covers the Control Costs process and includes helpful techniques for cost management.
14 videos |
1h 7m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Planning Quality Management (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
If you're responsible for managing projects, ensuring project quality meets customer expectations is paramount. This will enhance your effectiveness in the quality management area and will help you plan and monitor quality standards at every stage of the project to ensure customer satisfaction. This course covers the Project Quality Management knowledge area and the Plan Quality Management process.
10 videos |
45m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Manage and Control Quality (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects means managing the quality of the work and the standard of the end result. In this course, you'll learn how the Manage Quality and Control Quality processes work together to achieve the best level of project quality possible.
13 videos |
53m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Plan and Acquire Resources (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Project resources need to be managed with great care to achieve the best possible end result. Managing projects means putting together the right mix of skills and expertise to make up a high-performing team. This training will help you identify all the resources you'll need and aid you in planning how to use these resources to achieve project success. In this course, you'll learn how to plan resource management. You'll also learn best practices for estimating and acquiring necessary resources and developing and managing the project team.
16 videos |
1h
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Develop and Manage Resources (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects to achieve success means developing and managing effective teams. This training will help you identify all the project resources you'll need and control these resources throughout the life cycle of the project. In this course, you'll explore the Develop Team, Manage Team, and Control Resources project management processes.
15 videos |
55m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Plan and Manage Communications (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects to achieve success means enabling communication between all project stakeholders. Keeping everyone informed, engaged, and on the same page is necessary to secure the best outcome. This training will enhance your effectiveness in project communications management, as it will aid you in planning the bridges you need to build between project stakeholders. In this course, you'll learn how to create a communications management plan and how to manage the flow of information in accordance with that plan.
11 videos |
49m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Monitor Project Communications (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects requires monitoring the flow of information between all the stakeholders with a communications management plan. This training will aid you in developing a project communications management process that keeps everyone on the same page. This course covers the processes for monitoring communications in project management.
7 videos |
28m
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PMI PDU
Planning Risk Management (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing risks means preparing ahead of time for all the things that could happen, good or bad. Managing projects with an efficient project risk management plan increases the odds of success, as the project is less likely to be derailed. This training will aid you in planning risk management. This course covers the process of planning risk management for a project.
10 videos |
40m
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PMI PDU
Identifying Risk (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
If you're responsible for managing projects, it's necessary to identify risks so that you can make a plan to deal with them. Project risk management improves the chance of project success enormously. This training will help you to identify risk so you can prepare. This course covers the process of identifying risks in project management.
10 videos |
42m
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PMI PDU
Analyzing Risk (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Project risk management is a key responsibility of the project manager. Planning risk management means analyzing the things that can go wrong, to try and foresee how the project might be impacted. This training will help prepare you for the risk management a project requires. In this course, you'll examine the two risk analysis processes of the project risk management knowledge area, namely, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis.
12 videos |
1h 1m
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PMI PDU
Responding to Risk (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
All projects face risks. Effectively planning risk management can be the difference between success or failure on a project. This course covers the final three processes in the project risk management knowledge area: Plan Risk Responses, Implement Risk Responses, and Monitor Risks. You'll learn about some common risk response strategies and how to monitor and control risks as they occur when managing projects.
12 videos |
53m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Planning Stakeholder Engagement (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects requires managing your relationships with all stakeholders, both inside and outside of the company. Planning effective stakeholder engagement aids you in building and maintaining these relationships to increase the odds of project success. In this course, you'll learn about the Identify Stakeholders and Plan Stakeholder Engagement project management processes.
8 videos |
37m
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PMI PDU
Managing Stakeholder Engagement (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Managing projects successfully requires a plan for engaging stakeholders, which is very valuable to the project. In this course, you'll learn about the Manage Stakeholder Engagement and Monitor Stakeholder Engagement project management processes.
9 videos |
35m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Procurement Planning (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Procurement is about obtaining the goods and services that you'll need for your project. Managing projects includes planning the procurement process. This course covers the Plan Procurement Management project management process.
11 videos |
53m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Procurement Management (PMBOK(r) Guide Sixth Edition)
Procurement involves ensuring the reliable delivery of required materials, products, and services from external sources. Managing projects means having a procurement management process in place that identifies suitable vendors, manages relationships with sellers, monitors procurement activities, and makes changes and corrections when necessary. his course covers the Conduct Procurements and Control Procurements project management processes.
7 videos |
27m
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Badge
PMI PDU
Ethics and Project Management
This course illustrates how the project management community and the Project Management Institute have established ethics standards to help members navigate ethical issues and establish project management as a profession.
10 videos |
43m
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PMI PDU
Ethical Standards and PMI(r) Core Values
This course addresses the ethical challenges of an increasingly global network, highlighting that sensitivity in groups, their social customs, and their means of doing business are keys to success.
9 videos |
45m
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PMI PDU
Quality Methodologies and Standards for Project Management
To provide products or services that are of a consistently high quality, you'll need a methodology for managing projects that focuses on continuous process improvement initiatives and adherence to applicable industry standards. In this course, you'll learn best practice industry standards for quality that can be used for effective project management, such as the ISO standard. You'll also learn about tools used in process improvement that are based on the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.
11 videos |
45m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
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Exploring Project Management, Then and Now (2021 Update)
The history of business is the history of project management. Just as our ideas of how to conduct business continue to evolve, so do our conception of the project manager's role, the characteristics of a project, and the project life cycle itself. Traditional project management had its time and place, but today's landscape calls for innovation and adaptive leadership. In this course, you'll explore how project management approaches have evolved to address changing project environments. You'll learn about the transition from purely empirical, waterfall models of PM to more adaptive, hybrid, and agile project management techniques.
10 videos |
32m
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PMI PDU
Building and Training the Project Team (2021 Update)
You may be the project manager, but no project is an island. It requires teamwork, and project management means taking the proper actions to ensure the team works effectively to address the project characteristics and needs. In this course, you'll explore best practices for building a project team, including assessing the functional organization structure, resources management, and staffing plans. You'll also learn about tools like Responsibility Asset Matrices, RACI charts, multi-criteria decision analysis, and stakeholder analysis and how they are used to see the product vision to fruition. Finally, you'll look at how using political awareness, a project charter, and team ground rules will enable your team, including virtual team members, to work efficiently together.
10 videos |
45m
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PMI PDU
Leading the Team (2021 Update)
A project manager is only as good as the project team they lead. Team development isn't simply a matter of telling others what to do and when to do it, but rather requires the team building, interpersonal skills, and communication models of agile leadership. In this course, you'll learn about best practices for leading a team, including the importance of diversity and inclusion, and team motivational theories like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, among others. You'll also explore the stages of team development, theories like servant leadership, and the barriers to communication, along with the communication methods and channels you can use to overcome them.
10 videos |
56m
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Badge
PMI PDU
Engaging Team Members and Stakeholders (2021 Update)
Project management is more than just basic decision-making and scheduling. It's leadership. It's coaching, training, cross-training, and motivating. It requires both self-awareness and self-regulation, employing your emotional intelligence, or EQ, skills to keep a diverse team of professionals engaged and working effectively together. In this course, you'll learn about tools and techniques that project managers can use to engage team members and stakeholders, including effective decision-making and conflict management and resolution. You'll also explore how your social skills and empathy can be employed to keep you team motivated and on point.
9 videos |
44m
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PMI PDU
Supporting Agile Team Performance (2021 Update)
Project managers are leaders and as such, they are responsible for their team's performance. As Agile leaders, they must create Agile teams. In this course, you'll learn about Agile principles and Scrum frameworks, and the various events and tools that support team performance, like Sprints and Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and a Sprint Retrospective. You'll also explore concepts such as adaptive planning, product vision, product roadmaps, storymaps, and backlog refinement, as well as information radiators, iteration, and task boards.
10 videos |
32m
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PMI PDU
Selecting a Project Management Approach (2021 Update)
For those responsible for managing projects, understanding the project basics is essential. Project management is affected at every stage by the organization, the social environment, the project stakeholders, and many other aspects of the context in which the project is carried out. In this course, you will learn about project characteristics, including key terms and concepts and the project manager's role. You will also explore PM competencies, product and project life cycles, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational process assets that can influence project outcomes.
13 videos |
53m
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Badge
PMI PDU
Communicating Effectively (2021 Update)
Project management success entails effective project communications management. Whether with team members or other stakeholders, PMs must monitor the flow of information following a detailed communications management plan, and overcoming communication barriers as they arise. In this course, you will learn about communication methods, models, channels, and technologies that facilitate effective and efficient communication management. These include push and pull communication, the sender-receiver model, and other information management systems. Finally, you'll explore how to mold a communication requirements analysis.
8 videos |
35m
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Badge
PMI PDU
Defining and Identifying Project Risk (2021 Update)
Managing risks means preparing ahead of time for all the things that could happen, good or bad. If you're responsible for project management, it's necessary to identify risks so that you can make a plan to deal with them. Project risk management improves the chance of project success enormously. In this course, you'll explore risk identification, including its attendant threats and opportunities and its probability and impact. You'll learn about establishing a risk threshold and risk tolerance based upon project assumptions and constraints. You'll also learn the value of root cause analysis and SWOT analysis when defining your project's risk appetite.
13 videos |
54m
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PMI PDU
Performing Risk Analysis (2021 Update)
Project risk management is a key responsibility of the project manager. It requires qualitative and quantitative risk analysis in order to assess risk probability and impact in order to prepare for and mitigate against factors that can derail the project. In this course, you'll explore using tools like a probability and impact matrix, risk categorization, and risk urgency assessments to define potential risks. You'll also learn about data gathering and representation techniques for risk modeling, including decision trees, tornado diagrams, and expected monetary value (EMV).
9 videos |
46m
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PMI PDU
Managing Project Risks (2021 Update)
All projects face risks. Effective project risk management can be the difference between success or failure for a project manager. The ability to monitor risk and create strategies to implement risk responses is key to effective project management. In this course, you learn about the role of risk owner, and how to run risk audits and risk reassessments. You'll explore variance and trend analysis, technical performance measurement, reserve analysis, and responses to negative and positive risks. Finally, you'll learn how to assess risk triggers and secondary risks.
8 videos |
32m
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PMI PDU
Engaging Stakeholders (2021 Update)
Successful project management requires strong stakeholder management skills. Stakeholder engagement requires you to identify stakeholders and establish the levels of engagement necessary for each. In this course, you'll explore the communication methods and management and interpersonal skills necessary to meet and manage stakeholder expectations and needs. You'll learn about performing stakeholder analysis and using power-interest grids to complete a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix to provide insight into who needs to be communicated with in which circumstances.
10 videos |
44m
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PMI PDU
Planning and Managing the Project Budget (2021 Update)
Project management requires some financial savvy. Project cost management involves cost estimates, vendor bid analysis, and determining realistic budgets and then keeping them on track. While terms like cost aggregation and baseline, reserve analysis, and earned value management (EVM) are initially daunting, with some background and work, these tasks and tools can be understood and mastered. In this course, you'll learn to the basics of creating budgets and estimating and controlling costs. You'll explore cost forecasts, estimating using methods like estimate to complete (ETC), estimate at completion (EAC), cost performance index, and bottom-up and analogous estimating.
15 videos |
1h 12m
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PMI PDU
Managing the Project Resources (2021 Update)
Project managers must play close attention to resource management. They must assess the project's needs, in terms of both materials and staffing, create organizational charts and position descriptions, and acquire all of the necessary resources. Further, managing human resources also requires interpersonal skills to build and manage teams. In this course, you'll learn about planning, estimating, acquisition, and coordination of project resources. You'll also explore meeting training and development needs, setting ground rules, and strategies for mixing virtual and collocated team members. Finally, you'll learn how to apply personnel and team performance assessments and conflict management skills.
9 videos |
31m
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PMI PDU
Planning the Project Schedule (2021 Update)
Part of project management is creating and keeping to a schedule. PMs must list, define, and sequence a project activity list, including activity attributes and product milestones, and they must take into consideration lead and lag time. It can be a lot to keep track of. In this course, you'll explore methods for creating workable project schedules using tools like a work breakdown structure (WBS) and methods like precedence diagramming, network diagrams, and analogous estimating. You'll also explore parametric and three-point estimating and tools for defining activities.
11 videos |
44m
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PMI PDU
Performing a Critical Path Analysis (2021 Update)
Successful project management involves effective plan schedule management. Performing a critical path analysis is a proven way to create a strong, workable project schedule. In this course, you'll learn about the critical path method and the use of project schedule network diagrams. You'll explore aspects of planning like total and free float, leads, lags, and forward and backward passes. Finally, you'll learn to properly sequence activities for maximum efficiency and success.
12 videos |
52m
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PMI PDU
Managing the Project Schedule (2021 Update)
Successfully managing projects requires monitoring activities to discover and correct any project schedule variance, evaluating the effective schedule changes on all project activities, and making adjustments as required to minimize risk to your project schedule. In this course, you'll learn about scheduling tools and techniques for creating project calendars and controlling the project schedule. You'll explore concepts like earned value management (EVM) and schedule performance index (SPI) that will aid you in resource smoothing and leveling and managing schedules more efficiently and effectively.
7 videos |
28m
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PMI PDU
Establishing Quality Standards (2021 Update)
For project managers, ensuring project quality meets customer expectations is paramount. Close attention to grade, precision, and accuracy enhance your effectiveness in quality management and help you plan and monitor quality standards at every stage of the project to ensure customer satisfaction. In this course, you'll explore tools and techniques for managing quality, like cost-benefit and root cause analysis, Pareto analysis, and the 80/20 rule. You'll also learn about using visual tools like scatter diagrams, control charts, and histograms to convey quality information and help discover the factors that threaten it.
12 videos |
57m
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PMI PDU
Delivering Project Quality (2021 Update)
In many ways, project management is quality management. To provide products or services that are of a consistently high quality, you'll need a project management methodology that focuses on continuous process improvement initiatives and adherence to applicable industry standards. In this course, you'll explore industry standards and process methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma, Kanban, ISO 9000, and the International Organization for Standardization. You'll also learn about using tools like value stream mapping and quality metric for project quality and process improvement.
11 videos |
46m
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PMI PDU
Managing the Project Scope (2021 Update)
Efficient project management means planning carefully and controlling the project scope. Scope management requires creating the work breakdown structure (WBS), establishing baseline requirements, and validating and controlling the scope management plan. In this course, you'll explore project scope management, including working with focus groups and facilitating workshops and group creativity sessions to gather project requirements and document them. You'll also learn about using tools like WBS dictionaries, project scope statements, and variance analysis to help avoid scope creep and keep your project on track and on schedule.
17 videos |
1h 25m
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PMI PDU
Implementing a Procurement Strategy (2021 Update)
Project management includes planning the procurement process to obtain the materials, products, and services required for your project. This means having a procurement management process in place to identify suitable vendors, evaluate proposals, manage relationships with sellers, monitor procurement activities, and make changes and corrections when necessary. In this course, you'll explore methods and strategies to plan, conduct, and control the procurement process, from bidding and estimates to statements of work (SOW) to records management. You'll learn about contracts, procurement management tools and techniques, and make-or-buy analysis.
11 videos |
49m
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PMI PDU
Integrating Project Activities and Changes (2021 Update)
Successful project management requires a high degree of coordination, and integration management skills are required to enable a project team to handle change requests and keep projects on course from initiation and planning to successful project closure. In this course, you'll explore techniques and strategies for the integration and coordination of all project activities and changes, including change control and configuration management. You learn about the project charter and project management plan, and techniques for directing, managing, monitoring, and controlling project work. And you'll learn about version control using change logs and control boards, and how to use work performance data to maintain a schedule baseline and bring your project in on time, even as changes inevitably occur.
12 videos |
56m
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PMI PDU
Maintaining Project Artifacts and Knowledge (2021 Update)
To help an organization grow and experience superior performance, it's necessary for project managers to learn from past experiences. Preserving lessons learned can then be incorporated when managing projects in the future, resulting in fewer mistakes, lower costs, more accurate estimates, and many other project efficiencies. In this course, you'll explore the project manager's role in maintaining project artifacts and project knowledge, and how they bolster overall organizational knowledge and foster continuous improvement.
10 videos |
44m
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PMI PDU
Understanding Agile Fundamentals (2021 Update)
Project leadership is Agile leadership. Agile projects use short work iterations and incremental development of products that focus on business priorities and customer value. In this course, you'll learn about fundamental Agile concepts that are essential to managing projects, including the Agile values and Agile principles. This course also covers the phases of the Agile project management model, and introduces you to the most common Agile methodologies and frameworks. Finally, this course introduces key activities for managing Agile projects, including creating a product vision and project charter, and the best contract and documentation types.
11 videos |
43m
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PMI PDU
Communicating and Engaging Teams and Stakeholders (2021 Update)
Agile projects are only successful when the project team is cohesive, productive, and engaged. As an Agile project manager, you must encourage active involvement to ensure your team has a clear understanding of project requirements and stakeholder expectations. In this course, you'll learn about characteristics of effective stakeholder engagement when managing Agile projects. You'll explore important Agile project management tools and techniques, such as team development strategies, developmental mastery models, and shared product vision. You'll learn how effective communication and facilitation techniques like Agile games foster collaboration and cooperation in the Agile team. Finally, you'll recognize the benefits of collocated Agile teams when managing projects, including osmotic learning and communication.
12 videos |
53m
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PMI PDU
Prioritizing and Delivering Value (2021 Update)
Properly estimating and prioritizing project requirements is critical when planning projects. When managing Agile projects, you need to be able to map out the work necessary for your product release. In this course, you'll learn about vital Agile planning activities including creating personas and wireframing. You'll explore value-based prioritization methods, and you'll learn about tools and techniques like the MoSCow model, Kano model, 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams, story mapping, and value stream mapping. You'll also learn about key risk management and product quality, testing, and integration strategies you can use when managing Agile projects to help ensure you are creating and maintaining their intended value as they progress.
13 videos |
55m
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PMI PDU
Estimating Agile Project Work (2021 Update)
Properly estimating activities and effective time and resource management are critical when planning projects. In this course, you'll explore common Agile estimation techniques used when managing projects, like story points and ideal days, identifying any adjustments that need to be made, and completing your release plan. You'll explore setting work in progress limits and implementing project buffers. This course also covers recommended project time management processes for monitoring and tracking progress at both the iteration and project levels. Finally, you'll learn about key Agile exam concepts such as muda or waste, the Kanban system, work in progress, Little's Law, and process cycle efficiency.
14 videos |
1h 4m
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PMI PDU
Deep Dive into the Project Scope (2021 Update)
Keeping your project focused, on time, and on budget means keeping a close eye on project scope. Project management requires understanding project requirements and the project lifecycle. In this course, you'll learn about planning and management of the project scope from traditional and Agile project management perspectives. You'll explore how the product scope, vision, and minimum viable product (MVP) play into the planning process. Finally, you'll learn different methods and tools for scope planning.
10 videos |
46m
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PMI PDU
Deep Dive into the Project Schedule (2021 Update)
Project management, in part, means time management. Your project characteristics, scope, and available resources will all play a role in defining the schedule activities and milestones, but it's up to you to create and maintain the schedule for efficient progress. In this course, you'll explore the planning and management of the project schedule from traditional and Agile project management perspectives. You'll learn about creating a schedule management plan, the use of Gantt charts, product roadmapping, and forward and backward passing. You'll also learn about Agile-specific processes like Scrum, product backlog, and sprint planning.
9 videos |
49m
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PMI PDU
Deep Dive into Project Costs and Estimates (2021 Update)
Project management means being in charge of the purse strings, and that means being responsible for budgeting. In order to budget effectively, project managers need to understand the ins and outs of costs and estimates, fulfilling project requirements. In this course, you'll explore the planning and management of the project budget from traditional and Agile project management perspectives. You'll learn about the project lifecycles and how to use predictive tools to make plan-driven, solid estimates to control costs and keep the project in scope.
9 videos |
47m
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PMI PDU
Deep Dive into Project Quality (2021 Update)
No matter how well planned, scoped, and budgeted, a poor quality result means poor project management. Project quality is paramount. In this course, you'll explore the factors that help determine project quality and how it is achieved. You'll learn about acceptance criteria, quality audits, and quality assurance, and how they are used to ensure projects are completed successfully. Finally, you'll learn how to use accuracy, grading, gold plating and the definition of done to bring a quality project to the finish line.
9 videos |
52m
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Deep Dive into Project Procurement (2021 Update)
Whether products or services, procurement is a major part of project and project risk management. Recognizing risks, threats, and opportunities is crucial when making decisions around vendors and vendor contracts. In this course, you'll explore tools and process around project procurement, including SWOT and make-or-buy analysis, and quantitative and qualitative risk analysis. You'll learn about common contract types, vendor selection, and managing vendor performance. Finally, you'll also learn about understanding the use of risk registers, risk reports and audits, and risk response and ownership in relation to procurement.
10 videos |
42m
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Deep Dive into Project Risk (2021 Update)
Managing risk is a significant part of the project manager's job. It involves planning for threats and opportunities, both known and unknown, and preparing a risk response that will keep the project on track. In this course, you'll explore the planning and management of project risk from both traditional and Agile project management perspectives. You'll learn about tools like risk and sensitivity analysis, SWOT analysis, and expected monetary value (EMV), and the role of the risk owner. You'll also learn how risk audits and tolerance can help to avoid, share, and mitigate threats to you project.
10 videos |
54m
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Planning and Managing Project Compliance (2021 Update)
No project is an island. Project managers must know, understand, and reckon with the environment in which their project lives, and they must comply with it. Be it regulatory compliance, workplace safety issues, or corporate social responsibility considerations, all projects require compliance governance. In this course, you'll explore planning and managing project compliance, including identifying compliance requirements, establishing performance metrics, assessing compliance, and taking action to correct noncompliance. You'll also learn about aspirational goals to exceed compliance standards, including project ethics, team diversity, and values.
9 videos |
50m
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Assessing the Business Environment and Changes (2021 Update)
No project exists in a vacuum. It is always going to be subject to organizational culture, enterprise environment factors, and the company's risk appetite. And that's just some of the internal issues. The market landscape is a whole other layer. As a project manager, you must be aware of, and plan for, all manner of change. In this course, you'll learn best practices for change control, including adapting to internal and external changes, change requests and integrated change control, monitoring approved changes for effectiveness, and the Agile approach to change. You'll explore the relationship between project changes and risk, as well as how processes like relative prioritization, adaptive planning, and backlog refinement can help you avoid scope creep and keep your project on track even as the winds of change are blowing.
10 videos |
42m
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Delivering Project Benefits and Value (2021 Update)
The point of any given project is the benefit, the value, it provides. Project management requires continually keeping the payoff in mind. Whether that is increased revenue, efficiency, effectiveness, or more intangible benefits, value delivery is at the heart of any project. In this course, you'll explore the delivery of project benefits and value, and how project success means more than providing tangible value. You'll learn about the concepts of intangible value, including engaging stakeholders, and ensuring the project deliverable is perceived to be valuable and useful. You'll also learn techniques for prioritizing requirements, gathering feedback, reducing inefficiency and waste, and increasing throughput. Finally, you'll review the concepts of organizational value and value-based management.
10 videos |
58m
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Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
Book
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(r) Guide), Sixth EditionThe sixth edition of the PMBOK(r) Guide continues the tradition of excellence in project management, and now includes The Standard for Project Management as well as information on how to implement its approaches in agile environments.
9h 4m
By Project Management Institute
Book
Successful Project Management, Fourth Edition: How to Complete Projects on Time, on Budget, and on TargetAligned with the Fifth edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(r) Guide), this guide covers the fundamentals, focusing on practical tools and techniques students can apply immediately to complete projects on time, on budget, and on target.
3h 38m
By Michael S. Dobson
Book
Project Management: A Managerial Approach, Eighth EditionFocusing on all facets of the steps needed to successfully manage a project - from planning and resources to budgeting and more, this book will also help those preparing to take the PMBOK(r) certification exams of the Project Management Institute.
17h 37m
By Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel, Jr.
Book
Practice Standard for Earned Value ManagementExpanding on the Earned Value Management (EVM) information in the PMBOK(r) Guide, this valuable, detailed book will provide you with greater return on your project, and results that will directly benefit your organization.
48m
By Project Management Institute
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BOOKS INCLUDED
Book
Agile Practice GuideDeveloped as a resource to understand, evaluate, and use agile and hybrid agile approaches, this book provides guidance on when, where, and how to apply agile approaches and offers practical tools for practitioners and organizations wanting to increase agility.
1h 50m
By Project Management Institute
Book
Achieve PMP Exam Success: A Concise Study Guide for the Busy Project Manager, 6th Edition, Updated January 2021Covering all subjects addressed on the PMP Exam, this completely updated study guide presents all the fundamental knowledge, concepts, and practice exam questions a project manager needs to prepare for and successfully pass the PMP Exam on the first try.
5h 56m
By Diane Buckley-Altwies, Diane White
Book
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(r) Guide), Sixth EditionThe sixth edition of the PMBOK(r) Guide continues the tradition of excellence in project management, and now includes The Standard for Project Management as well as information on how to implement its approaches in agile environments.
9h 4m
By Project Management Institute
Book
Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Twelfth EditionProviding practical guidance on all aspects of project management (PM), this book features a streamlined approach to PM functions without stinting on detailed coverage of the tools and methods used at all stages of a project.
15h 9m
By Harold Kerzner
Book
Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Hybrid, Eighth EditionThe popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated
11h 40m
By Robert K. Wysocki
Book
Project Managers Portable Handbook, Third EditionAuthored by world-renowned project management experts and illustrated with handy tables, charts, models, and callout boxes, this compact reference summarizes best practices for defining, designing, developing, and producing project results.
7h 19m
By David I. Cleland, Lewis R. Ireland
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Project Scope Management Competency (Intermediate Level)
The Project Scope Management Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your ability to recognize key terms and concepts related to project scope management concepts. You will be evaluated on your skills in defining the project scope, determining project requirements, validating the project scope, setting the scope baseline, and determining a minimum viable product. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they have the skills related to project scope management terminology and concepts.
15m
| 15 questions
Project Schedule Management Competency (Intermediate Level)
The Project Schedule Management Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your ability to recognize key terms and concepts related to project schedule management concepts. You will be evaluated on your skills in executing schedule planning, critical path methods, schedule control, and Agile adaptive planning. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they have the skills related to project schedule management terminology and concepts.
20m
| 20 questions
Project Cost Management Competency (Intermediate Level)
The Project Cost Management Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your ability to recognize key terms and concepts related to Project Cost Management concepts. You will be evaluated on estimating costs, earned value management, three-point estimating, budget forecasting, and agile approach to cost estimates. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates that they have the skills related to Project Cost Management terminology and concepts.
15m
| 15 questions
Project Quality Management Competency (Intermediate Level)
The Project Quality Management Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your ability to recognize key terms and concepts related to project quality management concepts. You will be evaluated on your skills in quality management, quality control, Lean, value stream mapping, quality standards, and the cost of quality. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they have the skills related to project quality management terminology and concepts.
20m
| 20 questions
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