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What is the PMP?
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PMI® Northern Louisiana Chapter – Our PMP Exam Experience
PMI Membership
PMI Membership Costs
Initial Fees: $129 to join + $10 application fee | Student: $32/yr
Renewal Fee: $129/yr | Student: $32/yr | Retiree: $65/yr
Chapter Fees: $10/yr
PMP Renewal Fee: $60/3 yrs for PMI members | $150/ 3 yrs for non-PMI
There is a PMP renewal fee and 60 PDUs every three years is required to maintain your
certification
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Applying for the PMP Exam
Prerequisites:
Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or
the global equivalent)
7,500 hours leading and directing projects
35 hours of project management education
OR
Four-year degree
4,500 hours leading and directing projects
35 hours of project management education
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What is a Project?
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Why do you need a methodology?
Projects Operations
Create own charter, Semi-permanent charter,
organization, and goals organization, and goals
Catalyst for change Maintains status quo
Unique product or service Standard product or service
Heterogeneous teams Homogeneous teams
Start and end date Ongoing
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Project Vs. Operations:
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Project’s are Authorized because of
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Generic Cost and Staffing Life Cycle
Start Finish
Time
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Project Life Cycle
Example Phases
Concept and
Proposal
Development
Implementation
Verification
Termination
Managing and engaging stakeholders towards meeting project requirements and creating
project deliverables
Balancing the competing project constraints - Scope, Quality, Schedule, Budget, Resources
and Risks
• A program manager focuses on delivering tangible e.g. Growing operating margin or intangible
e.g. Improving the morale of the team benefits to the organization while a project manager
focuses on fulfilling the requirements of a project
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Program Example:
• The projects and programs of the portfolio not necessarily be interdependent or directly
related
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Portfolio Example:
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Project Manager
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Importance of Leadership Skills
A leader focuses on long-term goals and big-picture objectives while inspiring people
to reach those goals
A manager deals with the day-to-day details of meeting specific goals
Project managers often take on the role of both leader and manager
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Project Management Offices
In the 100s, many companies began creating PMOs to help them handle the increasing number
and complexity of projects
A Project Management Office (PMO) is an organizational group responsible for coordinating
the project management function throughout an organization
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Project Stakeholders
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What is a Project Management Office ?
• Is also referred as Project Office or Program Management Office
• Managing shared resources across all the projects administered by the PMO
• Identifying and developing project management methodology, practices & standards
• Coaching, mentoring, training and oversight
• Monitoring compliance with project management standard policies, procedures , and templates via
project audits
• Developing and managing project policies, procedures, templates, and other shared documentation
(organizational process assets)
• Coordinating communication across projects
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What is a Project Management Office ?
PMO Structures :
• Controlling : Controlling PMOs provide support and require compliance through various means
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Ethics in Project Management
Ethics, loosely defined, is a set of principles that guide our decision making based on personal
values of what is “right” and “wrong”
In order to earn PMP certification, applicants must agree to PMI’s Code of Ethics and
Professional Conduct
Several questions on the PMP exam are related to professional responsibility, including ethics
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Organizational Structure
Organizations have their own styles and cultures that influence how project work is performed
One of the keys to determining the type of organization you work in is measuring how much
Functional
Projectized
Matrix
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Organization Influences on PM
Organization
Structure Functional Weak Matrix Balanced Matrix Strong Matrix Projectized
Project
Characteristics
Project Little or None Low Low to Moderate Moderate to High to
Manager’s High Almost Total
Authority
Resource Little or None Low Low to Moderate Moderate to High to
Availability High Almost Total
• Functional organizations are centered on specialties and grouped by function e.g. staff members are
grouped by specialty like production, marketing, engineering and accounting at the top level
• Project Managers now operate from a separate function under their own management
• Project Manager is now fully independent of the Functional Managers ─ staff assigned to a project
are “owned” by the Project Manager
• Functional Managers retain line management responsibility for their staff but daily project
activities are controlled by the Project Manager
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Projectized Organizations
• Organizational resources are dedicated to projects and project work
• Project managers almost always have ultimate authority over the project
• Project managers are responsible for making decisions regarding the project and acquiring and
assigning resources
• They have the authority to choose and assign resources from other areas in the organization or to
hire them from outside if needed
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