Key Topics:

• **Organizational Structures & PMO**: functional, hybrid, projectized, and hybrid structures
• **Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)**: culture, policies, tools, organizational systems
• **Organizational Process Assets (OPAs)**: templates, historical data, lessons learned

Learning Outcomes: Participants will analyze organizational influences and leverage EEFs and OPAs effectively for project success.

Key Topics:

• **PMI Talent Triangle®**: technical, leadership, strategic & business management skills
• **Project Approaches**: predictive, agile, hybrid – key differences
• **The 5 Process Groups**: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, Closing

Learning Outcomes: Participants will understand project manager competencies, methodology selection, and navigating process groups efficiently.

Key Topics:

• **Project Integration Management**: how processes interlink
• **Develop Project Charter**: purpose, key elements, stakeholder input
• **Develop Project Management Plan**: integration of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources

Learning Outcomes: Participants can initiate and plan projects, integrating multiple knowledge areas to achieve strategic alignment.

Key Topics:

• **Plan Scope Management**: policies, procedures, scope baseline
• **Collect Requirements**: interviews, focus groups, surveys
• **Define Scope & Project Scope Statement**: deliverables, acceptance criteria, exclusions
• **Create WBS & Apply 100% Rule**: decomposition, control accounts, work packages

Learning Outcomes: Participants will develop detailed project scopes, define deliverables, and create a work breakdown structure that ensures comprehensive coverage.

Key Topics:

• **Define & Sequence Activities (PDM)**: precedence diagramming, dependencies, leads/lags
• **Estimate Activity Durations (PERT)**: optimistic, pessimistic, most likely, expected duration calculations

Learning Outcomes: Participants will construct schedules, understand dependencies, and estimate durations accurately.

Key Topics:

• **Estimate Costs**: analogous, parametric, bottom-up
• **Determine Budget & Cost Baseline**: aggregation of estimates, funding requirements
• **Contingency vs. Management Reserves**: handling risks and uncertainties

Learning Outcomes: Participants will learn cost estimation, budget formulation, and strategies for reserves and contingencies.

Key Topics:

• **Agile Mindset & 4 Values of Manifesto**: differences from predictive
• **Introduction to Scrum**: 3 roles (PO, SM, Team) & 5 events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint)
• **Identify Stakeholders & Power/Interest Grid**: mapping influence vs. interest, engagement strategies
• **Change Management**: applying organizational change management plans
• **Benefits Management**: evaluating and defining project benefits to maximize value

Learning Outcomes: Participants will understand agile principles, stakeholder analysis, and how to engage teams in predictive and agile environments.

Key Topics:

• **Team Development (Tuckman Ladder)**: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning
• **Manage Team**: 5 Conflict Management Strategies
• **PMI Code of Ethics**: Responsibility, Respect, Fairness, Honesty
• **Virtual Team Management**: tools, challenges, best practices
• **Knowledge Management**: planning and sharing knowledge

Learning Outcomes: Participants will learn team-building techniques, conflict resolution strategies, and ethical decision-making aligned with PMI standards.