PMP® Academy

1. Managing Projects in Organizations

Duration: 2 days (14 hours) - 14 Contact hours/PDUs
Form: interactive lecture, exercises with the elements of project simulation
Language: polish or english

Aims:

1. Presentation of PMI® project management standards
2. Preparing for professional project management
3. To carry out the simulation of client's project using the PMI® standards

Description:

The participants are divided into project teams in order to take part in two day, interactive simulations of managing a project according to PMI® standards. The training starts with the presentation of the main concepts and roles connected to project management. Following this, the simulation of the particular project management processes starts (initiating, planning, realization, monitoring and controlling, closure). The training consists of: theory and practice, what helps to understand the particular aspects. Every one of the participants takes the role of the manager of the simulated project at some stage in the process.

Program:

• The main terms of the art of project management,
• The projects' role at the modern organizations,
• Organizational structure in the project management context,
• Project life cycle, project management's life cycle,
• Projects, programs, project's portfolio,
• The characteristics of effective Project Managers,
• Stakeholders management,
• Role of communication in project management,
• Initation of the project in the organization ,
• Kick-off meeting,
• Team building in a project,
• Creation of a project plan
• The projec'st scope management ( - WBS Work Brakedown Structure),
• Estimating the time (schedule) and the costs of a project (budget),
• Introduction to the risk management,
• Execution phase of a project,
• Project's team management,
• Quality at the project mangement,
• Audit of the project's status (Earned Value technique),
• Project's completion.

2. Scope, Schedule and Costs Management

Duration: 2 days (14 hours) - 14 Contact hours/PDUs
Form: interactive lecture, exercises with the elements of project simulation

Aims:

1. Initial presentation of the process' analysis of client's requirements in the project
2. Presentation of the scope, schedule and cost management processes in the project
3. Presentation the relation of three main project's restrictions
4. Application the Earned Value technique for following the project's status

Description:

The participants investigate the management secrets of the three main project restrictions: scope, time and cost. The skillful connection of these three knowledge's areas is the critical condition for success of every project. We also present the basics of business analysis and requirements management, as an element of scope management. Practical workshops about using the Earned Value technique prepare the project managers to use it to monitor the progress of project work during their real projects.

Program:

• Project scope management,
• The process of defining projects requirements,
• Planning the project scope based on the clients' requirements,
• Declaration of project sope,
• Bulding the work structure division (WBS),
• The role of WBS at planning and controlling the project,
• Products decomposition into the activities,
• The techniques of estimating the time and costs activities,
• Creation of the schedules,
• Network diagrams, Gannt chart and milestone chart
• Logical relations between activities,
• Critical path technique,
• Budgeting the project,
• S-curve,
• Foresight of a project's status based on the historical data,
• Creation of a project baseline,
• Advanced project controll using the Earned Value technique
• The process of change management,
• Management of variance in budget and schedule,
• Completion of the project in the context of a scope, schedule and costs.

3. Risk and Quality Management

Duration: 2 days (14 hours) - 14 Contact hours/PDUs
Form: interactive lecture, exercises with the elements of project simulation
Languages: polish or english

Aims:

1. Presentation and practice exercises of using the risk and quality's management processes
2. Presentataion of qualitative school's theories recommended by PMI® and used in projects management
3. Discussion of a proper qualitative project management process

Description:

Every business project is connected to risk. Often, the higher the project's risk the bigger potential advantages for an organization. Effective project risk management in view of  likelyhood and impact is the main competence of an effective project manager. Project quality management is an orderly action in order to fulfill the requirements of the project's products and the project management processes. Participants of the training become acquainted with the schools and the tools of quality management recommended by PMI® and get to know how to apply them in the projects' activities.

Program:

• Risk management process
• Using WBS for the project risk management, 
• Identification of the risk (threats and opportunities) connected to the realization of the project,
• Risk analysis as an element of project planning,
• Qualitative risk analysis,
• Quantitative risk analysis,
• Study of the responses of the analysed risks,
• Risk and the project's reserves,
• Risk control in the particular stages of project's life cycle,
• Knowledge management of projects' risk,
• Quality in project management context,
• Quality in a class context,
• Review of quality schools and standards,
• Tools and techniques of quality planning in the project,
• Quality management planning,
• Quality assurance,
• Quality audits,
• Quality improvement,
• Quality controll during and after the project,
• Improvement of management process's quality.

4. Communication, Human Resources and Procurement Management

Duration: 2 days (14 hours) - 14 Contact hours/PDUs
Form: interactive lecture, exercises with the elements of project simulation
Languages: polish or english

Aims:

1. Become acquainted with communication management in the project 
2. The presentation of effective project team motivation and building the authority of project manager
3. The presentation of the model approach to procurement

Description:

Projects are being realized by human teams. The main role of every project manager is the work's integration of his team, which requires successfull management and effective communication. The communication according to the PMI® research takes 90% time of effective project manager. Its effectiveness is also the necessary condition of the success of every project. Project management is also copying with problems which appear, when the project's risks materialize. During this workshop the participants become acquainted more with "soft", human side of managing every project.

Program:

• Planning of the communication flow in a project,
• Communication model,
• Analysis of steakholders communication needs,
• Communication management plan in a project,
• Tools and techniques of project communication,
• Methods of gathering and distributing the information,
• Project status reports,
• Creating effective project teams based on effective communication,
• Acquiring the project team,
• Creating a structure of the project team,
• Role division in a projet team,
• Stages of project team development,
• Optimization of relations in the project team,
• Using authority and srenght of personality to increase the efficiency of a team,
• Conflicts solving in the team,
• The elements of negotiation's art at running the project,
• Management and the leadership,
• Coaching and enhancement of project team's qualifications,
• Planning the purchases 
• The decision: buy or produce,
• Planning the prepartion of contract,
• Selecting the contract type,
• Procurement selection,
• Contract administration,
• The financial authority of project manager,
• Procurements closure.

5. PMP®/CAPM® Exam Preparation

Duration: 2 days (14 hours) - 14 Contact hours/PDUs
Forma: interactive lecture, exercises, mock tests
Languages: polish/english

Aims:

1. Preparation of the participants to send the application and get the PMP®/CAPM® certificate
2. Discussion of the 9 knowledge areas in te context of examination's questions and tasks 
3. Test checking the knowledge from every area

Description:

Our 2 day course prepares the participants for certification through repetition the issues included in 9 PMBOK® Guide knowledge areas and the presentation of project manager’s occupational code. Every of the areas is closed with a mock test, which consists of questions similar to those on the real exam. 

Program:

• Analysis of the PMP®/CAPM® exams' structure,
• Rules of participation at PMP®/CAPM® exams,
• Specyfication of PMP®/CAPM® exams' questions,
• Review of 9 PMI® knowledge areas 

o    Integration Management
o    Scope Management
o    Time Management
o    Costs Management
o    Quality Management
o    HR Management
o    Communication Management
o    Risk Management
o    Procurement Management

• Review of PMI® professional code of ethics,
• Elimination's techniques of incorrect answers,
• Acronyms used in an exams' contents,
• Review of tasks occured in exams' frame,
• Planning the preparation process for an exam,
• Preparing the application for PMP®/CAPM® exams.