Duration
4 days
INTRODUCTION
Responding to project management's increasing growth, complexity, and diversity, the Project Management Institute (PMI)®, USA created the PMI-SP certification to fill the need for a specialized role in project risk management.
PMI-SP certification recognizes your unique expertise and competency in assessing and identifying project risks, mitigating threats, and capitalizing on opportunities. It also validates that you have basic knowledge and practical application in all areas of project management.
Achieving PMI-SP certification enables you to fill the risk management specialist role on your project team, hone your basic project management skills, and showcase your specialized expertise to employers.
To apply for the PMI-RMP, you must have one of the following:
- A four-year degree (bachelor's or equivalent) with at least 3,500 hours spent in the specialized area of professional project scheduling within the last five consecutive years, and 30 hours of project scheduling education
- A secondary-level diploma (high school or equivalent) with at least 5,000 hours spent in the specialized area of professional project scheduling within the last five consecutive years, and 40 hours of project scheduling education
Applying For The Examination
The PMI-SP credential examination is comprised of 170 multiple-choice questions to be completed in 3.5 hours.
Training Approach
The lesson is conducted through question answering (Q&A) approach during classes, and in the after-class assignments.
You will be provided with QuikNotes®, which is a mindmap containing all the important and essential facts, tips, and terminologies used in the exam to help accelerate knowledge retention. The facilitator will take you through discussion points and highlights with the QuikNotes®, reinforced with a test of 15-20 key questions. A web-based testing is available to allow you to practice more questions after the class, and at your pace.
What You'll Learn
- Prepare to take the PMI-SP exam
- PMBOK® Guide terms, definitions, and processes
- Test-taking techniques
- Styles and types of questions found on the PMI-SP exam
- Specific PMBOK® Guide process groups and knowledge areas relevant to PMI-SP exam
Who Needs to Attend
- Schedulers, project managers, associate project managers, project coordinators, and project leaders
- Team leaders, product managers, program managers, project sponsors, and project team members
Lesson 1: Schedule Mission Management
- Successful scheduling
- Analysing your scheduling approach
- Delivering a project
Lesson 2: Schedule Creation
- Building the project Network Diagram
- Developing Robust schedule estimate
- Integrating the schedule and true path
- Schedules that make sense
Lesson 3: Schedule Maintenance
- Establishing procedures for maintaining and updating the project schedule
- Evaluating the schedule against the schedule conformance index
- Defining the frequency and format of activity status report
- Updating and maintaining the plan
- Collecting activity status from activity owners
- Recording actual durations
Lesson 4: Schedule Analysis
- Performing schedule based Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
- Defining the frequency and detail for measuring performance
- Determining the variance between planned and actual value
- Calculating schedule efficiency
- Forecasting the impact to the critical path and project duration
- Identifying alternative project delivery approaches and to determine the feasibility of proposed changes
- Distinguishing between “fast track” the project and crashing the critical path
Lesson 5: Schedule Communication/Reports
- Identifying reporting needs, interfacing project information with organizations reporting needs
- Aligning project monitoring to project planning
- Generating and establishing project reports
- Reporting project status using EVA, milestones and critical patH
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.