PGMP

PGMP Training

Get ready for PMI’s new PgMP certification exam.

Get the information and gain the skills you need to prepare for PMI’s new Program Management Professional (PgMP) credential. The PgMP credential recognizes the effort involved in program management, including coordinating project teams, product delivery, support, operations, and people from other functional groups. This course covers the essential PgMP terminology, tools, and techniques covered on the PMI PgMP exam, improves your program management competency, and increases your ability to contribute to your company’s success.

Hands-On Exercises

  • Daily PgMP-style practice exams
  • Complete summaries for the 39 program management processes
  • Complete a sample application experience section and essay

Get ready for PMI’s new PgMP certification exam.

What You’ll Learn

  • Key program management principles relevant to this exam
  • How to align your program management experience with PgMP terminology and definitions
  • What a program is and how it differs from portfolios and projects
  • Identify and sequence projects to help estimate, schedule, and optimize resources
  • Set up communication, collaboration, and reporting structures
  • How to align program objectives with those of the organization
  • Tools and techniques essential for PgMP exam success
    Course Outline

1. Project Management Context and Concepts

  • Programs vs. projects vs. portfolios
  • Benefit management
  • Stakeholder management
  • “The Standard for Program Management” overview
  • The five process groups and the nine knowledge areas

2. The Program Management Life Cycle

  • Program life cycle vs program management process
  • Phase 1: Program initiation
    • Establishing program direction
    • Defining the program scope and charter
    • Defining accountability, roles, and responsibilities
    • Differentiating between program and project resources
    • Establishing governance, tools, finance, and reporting
    • Identifying success criteria
  • Phase 2: Program planning
    • Interface and transition planning
    • Planning program scope, schedule, cost, resources, and quality
    • Planning program communication, risk, and procurement
    • Integrating constituent project plans
    • Determining program deliverables and tasks
  • Phase 3: Program execution
    • Acquiring and developing the program team
    • Performing quality assurance and information distribution
    • Consolidating project and program data
    • Monitoring program performance
    • Chartering constituent projects
    • Assigning project managers and allocating resources
    • Establishing consistent project standards
  • Phase 4: Program monitoring and control
    • Controlling program risks, issues, communication, and contracts
    • Measuring benefits realization
    • Forecasting simulated program outcomes
    • Managing program-level issues
    • Applying the change management plan
  • Phase 5: Program closure
    • Closing components and contracts
    • Comparing actual and planned quality, cost, and schedule values
    • Executing the transition plan
    • Initiating a benefits-realization measurement
    • Releasing resources
    • Reporting lessons learned

3. Application and Eligibility Requirements

  • Three steps of the application process
  • Defining relevant experience
  • Writing experience essays

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