Project+ Certification (2003 Objectives)

Topic-Level Outline

Days: 5

Prerequisites: None

Unit 1 : Project management overview

Topic A: 0 An introduction to project management

A-1: Discussing project management concepts

Topic B: 0 IT project management

B-1: Discussing project management tools

B-2: Managing a project

Topic C: 0 Project management skills

C-1: Discussing project management

C-2: Identifying a project’s failure and success

Unit 2 : Project initiation

Topic A: 0 Scope definition and stakeholders

A-1: Identifying key stakeholders

A-2: Defining stakeholder requirements

Topic B: 0 Business requirements

B-1: Determining business needs

B-2: Refining business needs

B-3: Discussing informal drivers

B-4: Defining the concept

Topic C: 0 Systems requirements analysis

C-1: Identifying business and functional requirements

C-2: Discussing system requirements analysis

Topic D: 0 Roles and responsibilities

D-1: Identifying typical roles

D-2: Discussing project charters

Topic E: 0 The scope document

E-1: Performing risk assessment

Topic F: 0 Stakeholder consensus and approval

F-1: Identifying strategies and creating scope documents

F-2: Building consensus

Unit 3 : Project planning

Topic A: 0 Planning phase

A-1: Discussing the planning phase

A-2: ActivityTitle

A-3: ActivityTitle

Topic B: 0 Creating a work breakdown structure

B-1: Discussing uses of a WBS

B-2: Developing a WBS

B-3: Creating a WBS

Topic C: 0 Developing effort, time, and cost estimates

C-1: Estimating effort

C-2: Discussing and creating a time estimate

C-3: Discussing cost categories

C-4: Listing assumptions for creating estimates

C-5: Creating effort, time, and cost estimates

Topic D: 0 Procurement planning and solicitation

D-1: Discussing procurement planning

D-2: Discussing solicitation planning

Topic E: 0 The project schedule

E-1: Creating a project schedule

E-2: Analyzing critical path

Unit 4 : Managing people and resources

Topic A: 0 The project team

A-1: Creating a project team

Topic B: 0 Managing the project team

B-1: Providing feedback

B-2: Discussing reasons for poor performance

B-3: Creating project team and team performance

B-4: Managing a team

Topic C: 0 The communication plan

C-1: Developing a communication plan

C-2: Communicating and communication reporting

C-3: Communicating in various situations

Topic D: 0 Performance reporting

D-1: Evaluating performance

D-2: Using tools to measure performance

Topic E: 0 The resource management plan

E-1: Creating a resource management plan

Topic F: 0 The vendor management plan

F-1: Determining contract tasks or deliverables

F-2: Discussing vendor management

Unit 5 : Managing cost and risk

Topic A: 0 Creating a budget

A-1: Developing budgets

Topic B: 0 Tracking

B-1: Calculating Earned Value (EV) variables

B-2: Discussing budget overrun

B-3: Project and issue tracking

Topic C: 0 Risk management

C-1: Discussing project risks

C-2: Identifying risk severity criteria

C-3: Discussing risk management

Unit 6 : Managing change and quality

Topic A: 0 Managing change

A-1: Preventing scope creep

A-2: Controlling resolution

A-3: Communicating during change

A-4: Justifying changes

A-5: Changing buy-in

Topic B: 0 Creating a quality management plan

B-1: Developing quality measure

B-2: Monitoring quality measures

B-3: Resolving disagreements

Topic C: 0 Resources and quality management

C-1: Reconsidering schedule slippage

C-2: Identifying individuals for negotiation

C-3: Applicability of testing methods

C-4: Discussing quality management

Unit 7 : Project closure

Topic A: 0 Closing a project

A-1: Discussing project closure

A-2: Discussing the closure phase

A-3: Discussing project report and the lessons learned