Section Overview: Project Procurement Management Welcome to this section on project procurement management. Do you buy stuff as a project manager? If you do, you probably are dealing with your procurement office or a contracting office, or maybe you’re doing maybe you’re the one that’s doing the procurement activity. Well, a lot of project managers that I meet, they don’t do any of that business that’s handled by other parts of their organization. So I think that sets up a lot of project managers to get frustrated with this chapter…

Creating an Assumptions Log The assumption log is a document that has a record of all of your assumptions, but also your constraints. Now, why we don’t call it the assumption constraint log, I don’t know. But for your exam, the assumption log has both assumptions and constraints. So let’s nail down the assumption log and talk talk about some different types of assumptions. Because this is a theme we’ll see throughout the project. The assumption is anything that you believe to be true, but you really haven’t proven it…

Interpersonal and Team Styles assessment In the Pmbox Guide Six edition, there are a couple of concepts you need to know about when it comes to an interpersonal and team styles assessment. It’s just a way of assessing the communications, what’s the most appropriate communications, and then thinking about your stakeholders and how you’ll communicate with stakeholders, holders that are opposed to your project or they are in favor of your project. So, let’s look at this. First off, communication styles assessment. Basically just doing an assessment of what’s the…

Section Overview: Project Communications Management Welcome to this section on project communications. We have an awful lot to talk about here when it comes to communication because 90% of a project manager’s time is spent communicating. So it’s no wonder that this is a really important topic for your PMP exam. In this section, we’re going to discuss the project communications management overview and creating a project communications plan. And so this is tied a lot to what we’ll see coming up in stakeholder management because we’re communicating with stakeholders….

Section Overview: Implementing Project Integration Management Welcome to section ten on project integration. Management. If you’re following along in the Pinbach Guide 6th edition, this section will correlate to chapter four in the Pinbach Guide with Project Integration Management. So this is where we’re going to discuss implementing Project Integration Management. And what is project integration? Management is we’ll talk about the trends and emerging practices in Project Integration Management, about tailoring Integration management to your environment. Then how does this work in adaptive environments? One of the first processes…

Manage Project Knowledge Let’s talk about managing project knowledge. This is a new process in the PMBOK Guide 6th edition. So I would expect you’ll see plenty of exam questions on this. On your PMI exam let’s check out the edo’s and talk about manage project knowledge. Our inputs will be the project management plan. Our project documents things like the lessons learned, your different team assignments, a resource breakdown structure, source selection criteria, talking about choosing vendors and the stakeholder register you’ll have deliverables so past work creates things….

Section Overview: Get the Most from the Course All right, welcome to section two in our course about the PMP exam prep seminar. In this section, we’re going to talk about how do you get the most from the scores you’ve paid for the course. You’re investing time in the course, and the goal of the course is you passing the PMP. So we might as well create a strategy about how can you get the most out of this course. No one wants to take a class and then…

Section Overview: Project Management Foundations Welcome to Section Five where we’re going to talk about the project management foundations. In this section we’re going to really look at the big picture of project management. This is a really important section to build a strong foundation on how the Pimbok guide addresses project management and what project is and what a project is not. We’re going to talk about the temporary nature of projects, how that also means the temporary nature of teams. But what about the deliverables, the things that…

Test Estimation When we put a plan, we need to estimate the effort needed to execute the plan. We can use the estimated effort to estimate other elements like the time needed, the number of resources needed, and the budget needed. There are many techniques to estimate the different elements needed for the plan. The Http curriculum mentioned only two techniques metrics based and expert based techniques. Let’s look at each one of them. The Metrics Based Approach to understand this approach, let’s give an example. First, if your previous…

Test Strategy and Test Approach A testing strategy provides a generalized description of the test process, usually at the product or organizational level. The testing strategy describes at a high level, independent of any specific project, the how of testing for an organization. The choice of the testing strategy is one of the powerful factors, if not the most powerful factor in the success of the test effort and the action you see of the test plans and estimates. Let’s look at the major types of test strategies that are…