The Project Management Certificate Program

PM Core and Intermediate Courses

The Kerzner Approach® to Project Management Excellence

This program is designed to build your skills • Project Cost Management covers establishing Project Scope Management
and abilities as a professional project manager a project budget and understanding how to • Project scope planning
while preparing you in-depth for PMI®’s Project estimate the cost of a given project. • Project scope definition
Management Professional (PMP®) exam. • Scope statement
• Project Control Management stresses an • Statement of work
You will learn practical skills as well as concepts integrated approach for controlling a project. • Work breakdown structure (WBS)
and principles that you can take back to the job, • Decomposition
while gaining insight into ways to adapt these • Project Risk Management is a critical area • Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
skills to specific project environments. You will which enables participants to comprehend • Scope verification
also learn in detail about each of the nine what is needed in identifying risk events, • Scope control
knowledge areas within PMI’s A Guide to the analyzing them and developing strategies for
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® handling them. Project Time Management
Guide). • Project time management processes
• Project Human Resources Management • Natural transition from scope management
Prerequisites addresses essential staffing and leadership • Activity definition processes
Basic project management training or equivalent issues for the project team. • WBS decomposition
experience • Activity sequencing
• Project Quality Management ensures there is • Precedence diagramming method
Course Level a plan for managing, assuring and controlling • Precedence relationships
Intermediate the project’s quality. • Activity resource estimating
• Activity duration estimating
Who Should Attend • Project Procurement Management covers the • Estimating approaches
Project managers, team members, field staff essentials of procurement decisions, contract • Schedule development
members, project engineers, design engineers, administration and closure principles. • Critical path method (CPM)
project leaders, administrators, industrial • Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)
engineers, program managers, manufacturing • Project Communications Management • Critical chain techniques
engineers, operations managers, functional helps participants understand project team • Schedule negotiations
managers, information technology professionals, communications issues and how to build • Schedule control
research and development managers, consensus among various project groups.
marketing directors, Six Sigma Black Belts Project Cost Management
and others involved directly or indirectly with • Professional and Social Responsibility • Cost management plan
projects in virtually every industry. outlines the behavioral and ethical aspects of • Cost estimating
professional project managers. This section • Estimating checklist
Performance Focus enables project managers to exercise the • Learning curve
The program includes a detailed exploration of proper judgment in their decision making • Cost budgeting
each of the nine knowledge areas within PMI’s processes. • Reserve
PMBOK Guide. The focus of this program is on • Project life cycle costs
preparing participants to take the PMP exam • PMP Exam Preparation covers the PMP
while at the same time building their practical eligibility requirements and process and is Project Control
skills and proficiencies as project managers. dedicated to answering participants’ questions • Controlling the project plan
and administering a sample final exam that • Assessing change
Program Overview: Key Topics integrates all modules. • Variance analysis and management
• Proactive review process
• Project Management Framework defines Program Outline • Earned value management
key project management terms, identifies • Causes of schedule delays
the major PMBOK Guide process groups and Project Management Framework • Escalation
reviews the project management knowledge • PMBOK Guide – structure and intent
areas. • Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM) Project Risk Management
• Definitions and project life cycle • Risk terminology
• Project Integration Management focuses on • Project portfolio management • Risk management planning
the importance of having project managers • Project management process groups • Risk identification
work across organizational boundaries in order • Knowledge areas • Risk analysis – qualitative and quantitative
to be successful. • PMBOK Guide process model • Risk response planning
• Risk monitoring and control
• Project Scope Management establishes Project Integration Management
the foundation for systematically identifying • Defining project success Project Human Resource Management
the key deliverables of the project. After • Triple constraints • Organizational influences
establishing a scope baseline, it is crucial • Focus of integrated planning • Organizational structures
to ensure that there will be a process for • Areas of expertise needed by the project team • Human resource planning
managing change. • Process group interaction in a project • Staff management plans and acquisition
• Initiating projects • Developing the project team
• Project Time Management builds on the • Developing a project charter • Team building and leadership
deliverables identified in the scope definition • Project selection methods • Approaches to conflict
process. The project manager breaks these • Benefit measurement methods
deliverables down further and then develops • Project scope statement Project Quality Management
the project schedule. • Key project planning deliverables • The importance of quality
• Change control • Historical evolution of quality
• Quality planning process

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PM Core and Intermediate Courses

The Kerzner Approach® to Project Management Excellence

• Quality policy FOR ONSITE DELIVERY, this program is also

• Quality assurance available in a five- or six-day format. Highly
• Quality control scalable, our PM Cert program can be
• Quality tools easily adapted to meet the unique needs
• Six Sigma and requirements of your team or company.

Project Procurement Management Public offerings of this course typically fall

• Procurement planning process into a five-day format.
• Buyers and sellers
• Purchase plans and acquisitions ProjectManagementIQ® Version 10.0
• Types of contracts All participants in this program receive a copy of
• Contract costs ProjectManagementIQ (PMIQ). Your own personal
• Proposals PMP exam preparation coach, PMIQ provides all
• Contract negotiations of the knowledge and assistance you need to ace
• Contract administration the exam on your very first try. Now with more
• Contract change control than 1500 questions, IIL’s comprehensive project
• Legal perspectives management learning tool prepares you for both
• Contract closure the content and format of the PMP Certification
Exam.
Project Communications Management
• Types of communication PMP Certification Qualifications
The latest version of PMIQ covers all of the Certification by PMI requires proving your ability
• Communications process knowledge areas of the PMBOK® Guide and
• Barriers to effective communication to manage projects. You must meet the
includes 500 brand new questions, with hints following requirements:
• Communication planning and clues for each answer. A sample exam closely
• Stakeholder analysis mirrors the PMI Certification Exam experience
• Communications plan • Minimum of 35 hours of project management
and provides feedback on virtually every ques- classroom and/or eLearning instruction
• Communication styles tion – pointing to the exact pages in the source
• Meetings • Bachelor’s degree and 4,500 hours of project
materials that you should review to fill in your management experience over three years/36
• Performance reporting knowledge gaps.
• Managing stakeholders months
• 7,500 hours of project management
Reduce your study time and gain the utmost experience over five years/60 months (if NO
Professional and Social Responsibility confidence in your Project Management IQ with
• Professional and social responsibility tasks degree)
the latest version of this revolutionary learning • Complete and submit the PMP certification
• Code of conduct tool. Your PMP certification awaits!
• Sample questions application directly to PMI
• Pass the four-hour computer-based
The complete PMIQ package includes: 200-question exam
PMP® Exam Preparation • ProjectManagementIQ CD-ROM
• The PMP certification process • Project Management: a Systems Approach to
• PMP examination specifications In order to take the PMP exam, you must apply
Planning, Scheduling and Controlling (Tenth directly to PMI and pay the exam fees prior to
• PMP eligibility requirements Edition) by Dr. Harold Kerzner
• The revised PMP credential examination the examination. Go to www.pmi.org for detailed
• A Guide to the Project Management Body of information and forms needed for the exam.
overview Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), published by PMI®
• Additional study references • Quantitative Methods for Project Management
• Formulas and other fun stuff by Dr. Frank Anbari
• Study plan and study groups
• Application options

Each attendee will receive a complimentary copy of PMIQ is yours FREE for attending the Project Management
Project Management: A System Approach to Planning, Certificate Program! A comprehensive project
Scheduling and Controlling (Tenth Edition) by Dr. Harold management learning tool and preparation coach
Kerzner as well as a copy of the PMBOK Guide. for the PMP exam! (a USD 549 value)

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interactive, a live, online version of this course is instructors and a diverse group of peers in a with a recorded online version of this course
led by an instructor and conducted in real time. Traditional Classroom version of this course. and log on when and where you learn best.
#8860 / Fifteen 3-hour sessions #8115 / 7-Days See page 24
CEU Credits: 4.5 / PDU Credits: 45 CEU Credits: 4.6 / PDU Credits: 46
Price: USD 2550 Price: USD 2995
IIL/University Price: USD 3150 IIL/University Price: USD 3795

www.iil.com • +1-800-325-1533 or +1-212-758-0177 • Visit our website for the latest course schedules.
The Kerzner Approach® and ProjectManagementIQ® are registered trademarks of International Institute for Learning, Inc PMI®, PMBOK® and PMP® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.