CPMP Certification Training

Introduction to Certified Project Management Professional (CPMP)

• The CPMP certification is a globally recognized credential that has become a standard requirement for Project Managers and allied professionals across various engineering and non-engineering industries.

Project Management

• A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result, characterized by being temporary, unique, having a definite start and end date, and progressively elaborated.
• Project end state is reached when its objectives have been achieved, project is terminated because the objectives are not achieved, client wishes to cancel the project, or need for project no longer exists.

Operations vs. Projects

• Operations are ongoing activities that produce repetitive and long-term outputs, with the objective of sustaining the business, whereas projects are catalysts for change that conclude when their specific objectives have been attained.
• Examples of projects include developing a new product or service, discovering a new drug, while examples of operations include production support services, claims processing, and monthly pay-roll.

Management

• Management is an art of getting things done through and with people in formally organized groups, creating an environment for people to perform and cooperate towards attaining group goals.

Project Management

• Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements, guiding the project work to deliver the intended outcomes.
• It is an integration of various knowledge areas like scope, cost, time, and communication, and involves a continuous process of identifying and solving problems.

Program Management

• A program is a group of related projects, subprograms, and program activities managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
• Program management focuses on project interdependencies, resolving resource constraints and conflicts, aligning organizational/strategic direction, and resolving issues and change management.

Portfolio Management

• A portfolio refers to projects, programs, sub-portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives, with the goal of maximizing value of the organization.
• Key advantages of portfolio management include minimizing redundancy, optimally allocated resources, and close monitoring.

Project Management Office (PMO)

• A PMO is a management structure that standardizes project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Responsibilities of a PMO include managing shared resources, identifying and developing project management methodology, coaching, mentoring, training, oversight, and coordinating communication.

Project Manager

• A project manager is the person assigned by the performing organization to lead the project team, responsible for achieving the project objectives.
• Roles of a project manager include leadership, team building, motivation, communication, negotiation, influencing, decision making, political and cultural awareness, conflict management, and coaching.