Advanced Project Management (PMP®)
Initiating
- Analytical skills
- Benefit analysis techniques
- Elements of a project charter
- Estimation tools and techniques
- Strategic management
Planning
- Change management planning
- Cost management planning, including project budgeting tools and techniques
- Communications planning
- Contract types and selection criteria
- Estimation tools and techniques
- Human resource planning
- Lean and efficiency principles
- Procurement planning
- Quality management planning
- Requirements gathering techniques (e.g., planning sessions, brainstorming, and focus groups)
- Regulatory and environmental impacts assessment planning
- Risk management planning
- Scope deconstruction (e.g., WBS, Scope backlog) tools and techniques
- Scope management planning
- Stakeholder management planning
- Time management planning, including scheduling tools and techniques
- Workflow diagramming techniques
Executing
- Continuous improvement processes
- Contract management techniques
- Elements of a statement of work
- Interdependencies among project elements
- Project budgeting tools and techniques
- Quality standard tools
- Vendor management techniques
Monitoring and Controlling
- Performance measurement and tracking techniques (e.g., EV, CPM, PERT, Trend Analysis)
- Process analysis techniques (e.g., LEAN, Kanban, Six Sigma)
- Project control limits (e.g., thresholds, tolerance)
- Project finance principles
- Project monitoring tools and techniques
- Project quality best practices and standards (e.g., ISO, BS, CMMI, IEEE)
- Quality measurement tools (e.g., statistical sampling, control charts, flowcharting, inspection, assessment)
- Risk identification and analysis techniques
- Risk response techniques
- Quality validation and verification techniques
Closing
- Archiving practices and statutes
- Compliance (statute/organization)
- Contract closure requirements
- Close-out procedures
- Feedback techniques
- Performance measurement techniques (KPI and key success factors)
- Project review techniques
- Transition planning technique