PMdistilled Guide Index

Index

Introduction
  1. Introduction to professional project management
  2. How to effectively use the PMdistilled Guide to pass PMP certification in less than 50 hours effort?
Chapter#1 – Basic definitions
  1. What is a project?
  2. What is an operation?
  3. What is a program?
  4. What is portfolio?
  5. Project Management Office (PMO)
  6. Project stakeholders (Internal & External)
  7. Enterprise environmental factors (EEF) (Internal & External)
  8. Organizational process assets (OPA)
  9. Project success criteria
  10. Roles and responsibilities of Project Managers
  11. Three types of Project Management
Chapter#2 – Predictive project management & Project Initiation
  1. Predictive Project Management
  2. Project management lifecycle
  3. Project Initiation & Project Charter
  4. Project selection ratios
Chapter#3  – Project Planning
  1. Collecting detailed requirements
  2. Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)
  3. Work breakdown structure (WBS)
  4. Bill Of Quantities (BOQ)
  5. Cost estimation & budgeting
  6. Projects Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS)
  7. Control accounts
Chapter#4 – Scheduling
  1. Plan schedule management
  2. Define activities
  3. Sequence activities
  4. Estimate activity durations
  5. Developing & Optimizing the project schedule
Chapter#5 – Planning other aspects
  1. Plan quality management
  2. Plan resource management
  3. Plan communications management
  4. Plan risk management
  5. Plan procurement management
  6. Plan health, safety and environmental aspects
  7. Plan stakeholder engagement
Chapter#6  – Project execution
  1. Direct and manage project work
  2. Manage changes
  3. Manage project knowledge
  4. Manage quality
  5. Acquire resources
  6. Developing & Managing teams
  7. Manage communications
  8. Implement risk responses
  9. Conduct procurements
  10. Manage stakeholder engagement
  11. Manage HSE
Chapter#7 – Monitoring & Controlling project work  
  1. Control Scope
  2. Control Schedule
  3. Control Costs
  4. Control Quality
  5. Control Resources
  6. Monitor Communications
  7. Risk monitoring and control
  8. Control Procurements
  9. Monitor and control stakeholder engagement 
  10. Earned Value Management (EVM)
  11. Earned Schedule Management
Chapter#8 – Project closure
  1. Formal closure
  2. Handover takeover

Agile or Adaptive Project Management

Chapter#9 – Introduction to Agile Projects
  1. What is Agile? Understanding Agile Manifesto
  2. When to go for agile project management?
  3. Servant leadership
  4. Agile chartering
  5. Quick introduction to Scrum, the most popular agile framework
  6. Roles and responsibilities of the Product owner
  7. Roles and responsibilities of the Iteration Manager (Scrum master)
  8. Roles and responsibilities of the self-organizing team (Development team)
Chapter#10 – Agile ceremonies and artifacts
  1. Product backlog
  2. User stories
  3. Agile estimation
  4. Release planning
  5. Iteration / Sprint planning
  6. Velocity calculation
  7. Iteration execution / Sprinting
  8. Daily team meeting / Stand up meeting / Daily Scrum
  9. Iteration review / Sprint review
  10. Iteration / Sprint Retrospective
Chapter#11 – Advanced agile concepts
  1. Agile execution practices that help teams to deliver value
  2. Monitoring & controlling agile projects
  3. Organizational change management for agile
  4. Agile PMO
  5. Scaling agile

Hybrid Project Management

Chapter#12 – Hybrid Project Management
  1. What is hybrid project management?

Tools & techniques

Chapter#13 – Generic tools and techniques
  1. Situational Leadership II
  2. Oscar Model
  3. Cross cultural communication
  4. Gulf of execution and evaluation
  5. Hygiene and Motivational Factors
  6. Hawthorne effect
  7. Intrinsic Vs Extrinsic Motivation
  8. Information radiators
  9. Kanban Board
  10. Leading and lagging indcators
  11. Tailoring
  12. Theory of needs
  13. Theory XYZ
  14. Managing change
  15. ADKAR model
  16. The 8-step change process
  17. Virginia Satir Change Model
  18. Transition model
  19. Cynefin framework
  20. Stacey matrix
  21. Tuckman ladder
  22. Drexler / Sibbet  team performance
  23. Conflict model
  24. Negotiation
  25. Planning process groups
  26. Salience model
  27. Project Management Principles
  28. Principles of Project Management
  29. Project performance domains

Emerging trends in project management

Chapter#14 – Latest & Emerging trends in project management
  1. Building Information Modelling (BIM)
  2. Digital Project Management Information Systems (DPMIS)
  3. Application of AI in project management
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