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PMP® and CAPM® Certification / 3 Day Course

Learn how to decipher the project management processes and terms you need to know to pass the PMP® or the CAPM® Exam in just four days.
Course Overview
This PMP®/CAPM® certification course will equip you with the knowledge needed to take and pass the PMP® exam - guaranteed*. The course outline is based on Kim Heldman, Claudia Baca and Patti Jansen’s best selling book, PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide, Deluxe Edition. Thousands of professionals, worldwide, have used this book to successfully take and pass the PMP® exam. Now you have the opportunity to learn the inside tips on passing the exam in a classroom setting.
Course Content
This course is an intense three days of study based on the both the PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide, Deluxe Edition and the PMBOK®Guide, Third Edition (2005).  This course will cover the following topics and more:

  • Defining the project management process groups
  • Understanding the project management Knowledge Areas
  • Using project selection methods
  • Defining scope
  • Creating the WBS
  • Defining and managing risks
  • Identifying project team members
  • Procuring project resources
  • Implementing quality management
  • Implementing change control
  • Measuring project performance
  • Closing out the project
  • Understanding professional responsibility

We'll also cover memorization techniques, tips for taking the exam, and participate in hands-on exercises and labs to reinforce what you've learned.
Preparing for the Course
Visit the PMI® website and submit your application to take the exam at least six weeks prior to taking this course if you're planning on sitting for the PMP® or CAPM® exam.

Obtain and read a copy of the PMBOK®Guide, Third Edition (2005) prior to coming to class. You will receive a copy of the PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide, Deluxe Edition book.
What to Bring to Class
  • A copy of the PMBOK®Guide, Third Edition (2005)
  • A non-programmable calculator (programmable calculators are not permissible during the actual exam)
  • Your favorite writing utensils, highlighters, and sticky notes for taking notes and marking pages
  • Come prepared to spend three full days of in-depth prep work
* - We guarantee you'll pass the PMP® exam if taken within two weeks of completing this course. If you do not pass the PMP® exam the first time, we will pay the PMI® Member cost (currently $275) to retake the exam one time within 30 days of completing of this course.


Requirements Management for Project Managers / 2 day course
Course Overview
This sixteen hour seminar introduces the principles of Requirements Management. The major course topics:
  • An Overview of the Requirements Management Process
  • Set Up for Requirements success
  • Requirements planning
  • Requirements gathering
  • Confirming requirements
  • Baseline and controlling requirements
Learning Objectives
Using a real life project, the students will:
  • Determine the requirements audience
  • Determine the best approach to gathering requirements
  • Create a Requirements Management Communication Plan     
  • Create a Business Context Diagram
  • Write correct requirements using different requirement types
  • Analyze requirements from an individual and global perspective                      

Keys to Project Success / 5 day course

We are pleased to offer this course in conjunction with our partner Executive Leadership Group.
Course Overview
Keys to Project Success offers key principles that help project managers succeed.  A less cheery perspective is that violation of these principles can easily lead to project failure.  Recognition and mastery of these principles not only mitigates project risk, but can benefit any type of management.

The course has been divided into four major topics:
  • Manage Yourself
  • Manage Your Organization
  • Manage Your Work
  • Manage Your Team
Each topic represents a different and necessary element of project success.  A project manager can be an expert in any one or several of these topics. But without expertise in all of them, he or she will find project management unnecessarily overwhelming.
Manage Yourself
This section is the shortest, yet in some ways it's the most important.  Success in managing projects – success in any kind of management – has been linked to a simple principle for handling stress, conflict and adversity.  This principle, which provides the foundation for proactive leadership, can be learned quickly and applied immediately.   Students find equal applicability to goal achievement in personal and work settings.  This section also offers an introduction to the project manager's role.
Key Learning Objectives
  • Demonstrate a proven method for increasing one's ability to be proactive in solving problems.
  • Describe the project manager's role.
Manage Your Organization
Appropriate accountability and authority make effective project management possible.   There are precise keys to success in the accountability and authority one holds with project staff, peers, boss, project sponsor, steering committees, and suppliers and vendors.  In addition, successful project management requires the ability to influence others with whom one has no direct accountability and authority. Those relationships require skillful application of reinforcement, criticism, and behavior analysis.
Key Learning Objectives
  • Apply the three elements of accountability in order to determine whether, in any given situation, accountability does or can exist.
  • Describe what authorities a project manager needs and why.
  • Apply the two necessary conditions for cross-functional environments to succeed.
  • Describe the ideal role relationships for project participants and stakeholders.
  • Describe the accountability structure that will result in the most focused accountability and how it contributes to project success.
  • Demonstrate the ability to better motivate improved performance through behavior analysis, reinforcement and constructive criticism.
Manage Your Work
The backbone of project management is planning, scheduling and controlling.  There are well-established principles, tools and techniques for taking these critical elements to a professional level of expertise.  From the management of small to complex projects, participants will find comfort and value in using the knowledge gained in this section.

This section requires no expertise in project management software.  However, students who do use project management software will find themselves much better armed once they understand the concepts behind the software, as they are taught in this section.
Key Learning Objectives
  • Describe and recognize the critical elements of a correct project measure of performance.
  • Demonstrate the ability to identify the major deliverables required to achieve a project's measure of performance.
  • Demonstrate the ability to develop a project scope statement that will provide clarity and reduce the chance of scope creep.
  • Demonstrate a basic understanding and use of the common techniques for planning and scheduling project work.
  • Demonstrate the ability to calculate the critical path for a simple project.
  • Demonstrate methods for compressing the time required to complete a project.
  • Describe the benefits of establishing a project baseline.
  • Describe the critical elements of risk identification, mitigation and control.
  • Describe a method for managing project changes.
  • Describe methods for developing and implementing project lessons learned.
Manage Your Team
A team is a collection of individuals who need one another to succeed.  Unfortunately, project teams frequently consist of individuals who are unable to succeed because they do not know how to work together.  Worse, they may arrive at the project with different or even conflicting agendas.  Project timelines do not usually permit haphazard, gradual or “natural” formation of these individuals into a high performing team.  Indeed, the “teaming” of these individuals must be engineered, and swiftly, by the project manager.

Many projects also have what we call extended team members – vendors, consultants or suppliers.  This requires additional management expertise in order to establish appropriate agreements, build relationships, and monitor work to ensure successful completion.  “Manage Your Team” explains the critical steps a project manager can take to quickly build and maintain a high performing extended team.
Key Learning Objectives
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the possible stages of team development.
  • Describe the seven things a project manager can do to quickly build and maintain an effective team.
  • Demonstrate the ability to effectively handle behaviors that negatively affect project meetings.
  • Demonstrate a structured method for team problem solving.
  • Demonstrate the ability to distinguish between when one would and would not use a structured brainstorming technique, and how to use that technique.
  • Describe the critical elements of successful vendor/supplier management.
  • Demonstrate techniques for establishing and maintaining effective relationships.
Contact Information
If interested in attending any of these courses or having us bring a course to you, please contact us at cmbaca@ClaudiaMBaca.com.

  
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