Introduction to PMP

1. What you need to be a good project manager?

a. Knowledge

All the tools and techniques in the PMBOK.

b. Performance

Keeping your nose to the grindstone and doing good work to make a delivery.

c. Personal Skills(Skills to work with people)

Make personal connections with your team and help keep everybody on the right track.

 

2. Manage your project under Enterprise Environmental Factors.

Enterprise Environmental Factors means how your organization and market area usually do things:

a. People

This skills and organizational culture where you work.

b. Risk Tolerance

Some compay are highly tolerant of risk and some are really risk averse.

c. Market

The way your compay is performing in the market can affect the way you manage your project.

d. Databases

Where your company stores its data can make a big difference in the decisions you make on your project.

e. Standards

Some companies depend on government standards to run their business and when they change, it can have a big impact.

 

3. Understand the company's big picture.

a. Portfolio

A portfolio is a group of projects or programs that are linked together by a business goal. 

b. Program

A program is a group of projects that are closely linked, to the point where managing them together provides some benefit.

c. Project

A project is any work that produces a specific result and is temporary. Projects always have a beginning and an end.

 

4. What a project is?

a. Temparary

b. Creating a unique result

c. Progressively elaborated

 

5. What's the difference between Projects and Operations/processes?

Operations are ongoing, but Projects must have a start and and a finish.

 

6. What does a project manager do in daily work?

a. Gather product requirements

b. Manage stakeholder expectations

c. Deal with project constraints

 

7. What is a project constraint?

A project constraint is any limitation that’s placed on your project before you start doing the work.

 

8. How to run greate projects?

There are 42 processes falls into five process groups and nine knowledge areas in the PMBOK guide help you sucess to run greate projects!

 

9. Five groups.

Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, closing.

 

10. Nine Knowledge areas.

Cost, Scope, Time, Human resources, Procument, Quality, Risk,  Communication, Integration.