Project +
Class Outline:
Description:
This ILT Series course, rated 4.9/5.0 in overall quality by ProCert Labs, will prepare students for the current CompTIA Project+ certification exam. It covers the full range of skills and concepts students need to know to plan and implement projects. The project initiation and planning process is covered in-depth, culminating in the creation of a project schedule. Learning how to manage business concerns such as cost and risk is balanced by thorough coverage of best practices in managing people and resources. Students will also learn how to manage change and the steps necessary in closing a project. Comes with MeasureUp exam prep software. Also available with a companion CBT program.
Prerequisites: None
Unit 1 : Project management overview
Topic A: 0 Introduction to project management
A-1: Discussing project concepts
Topic B: 0 IT project management
B-1: Discussing project management tools
Topic C: 0 Project management skills
C-1: Discussing project management
C-2: Identifying a project’s failure and success
Unit 2 : Project initiation
Topic A: 0 Project stakeholders
A-1: Identifying key stakeholders
A-2: Defining stakeholder requirements
Topic B: 0 Business requirements
B-1: Determining business needs
B-2: Refining business needs
B-3: Discussing informal drivers
B-4: Defining the concept
Topic C: 0 System requirements analysis
C-1: Identifying business and functional requirements
C-2: Discussing system requirements analysis
Topic D: 0 Key roles and responsibilities
D-1: Identifying typical roles
Topic E: 0 The project charter
E-1: Discussing project charters
Topic F: 0 Defining scope
F-1: Discussing scope documents
F-2: Discussing worst case scenarios and best practices
F-3: Performing preliminary risk assessment
Topic G: 0 Stakeholder consensus and approval
G-1: Building consensus and gaining customer confirmation
G-2: Discussing strategies for building consensus
G-3: Conducting a review meeting
Unit 3 : Project planning, estimating and scheduling
Topic A: 0 Planning phase
A-1: Discussing the planning phase
Topic B: 0 Creating a work breakdown structure
B-1: Discussing uses of a WBS
B-2: Developing a WBS
B-3: Creating a WBS
Topic C: 0 Developing effort, time, and cost estimates
C-1: Estimating effort
C-2: Discussing time estimates
C-3: Discussing cost categories and cost estimate types
C-4: Listing assumptions for creating estimates
C-5: Discussing effort, time, and cost estimates
Topic D: 0 The project team
D-1: Creating a project team
D-2: Securing staffing commitments and resolving issues
Topic E: 0 The project schedule
E-1: Creating a project schedule
E-2: Analyzing critical path
Unit 4 : Creating project plans
Topic A: 0 The communication plan
A-1: Developing a communication plan
A-2: Communicating and communication reporting
A-3: Communicating in various situations
Topic B: 0 The resource management plan
B-1: Creating a resource management plan
Topic C: 0 The procurement and vendor management plan
C-1: Discussing procurement planning
C-2: Discussing solicitation planning
C-3: Determining contract tasks and deliverables
C-4: Discussing vendor selection, management and contracts
Topic D: 0 The risk management plan
D-1: Discussing project risks
D-2: Identifying risk severity criteria
D-3: Identify strategies to mitigate or remove risk
Topic E: 0 The quality management plan
E-1: Developing quality measures
E-2: Monitoring quality measures and analyzing project constraints
E-3: Resolving disagreements
Topic F: 0 The comprehensive project plan
F-1: Discussing the comprehensive project plan
F-2: Conducting a project plan review meeting
Unit 5 : Managing people
Topic A: 0 Managing the project team
A-1: Providing feedback
A-2: Discussing reasons for poor performance
A-3: Discussing team performance
A-4: Managing a team
Topic B: 0 Client relationships
B-1: Managing client relations
Unit 6 : Managing cost and evaluating project performance
Topic A: 0 Creating a budget
A-1: Developing budgets
Topic B: 0 Tracking
B-1: Tracking projects
B-2: Discussing budget overruns
B-3: Mitigation of issues
Topic C: 0 Performance reporting
C-1: Evaluating performance
C-2: Using tools to measure performance
C-3: Calculating earned value variables and EAC
Unit 7 : Managing change and quality
Topic A: 0 Managing change
A-1: Preventing scope creep
A-2: Controlling resolution
A-3: Communicating during change
A-4: Justifying changes
A-5: Obtaining buy-in on a project change
Topic B: 0 Resource and quality management
B-1: Addressing schedule slippage
B-2: Negotiation, disagreement resolution and issue escalation
B-3: Applicability of testing methods
B-4: Discussing acceptance testing
B-5: Discussing quality management
Unit 8 : Project closure
Topic A: 0 Closing a project
A-1: Discussing the closure phase
A-2: Conducting a project review meeting
A-3: Discussing the project report and lessons learned
Appendix A : Certification exam objectives map
Topic A: 0 Comprehensive exam objectives