People - 33%
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Task 1 |
Develop a common vision
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Help ensure a shared vision with key stakeholders.
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Promote the shared vision.
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Keep the vision current.
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Break down situations to identify the root cause of a misunderstanding of the vision.
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Task 2 |
Manage conflicts
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Identify conflict sources.
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Analyze the context for the conflict.
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Implement an agreed-on resolution strategy.
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Communicate conflict management principles with the team and external stakeholders.
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Establish an environment that fosters adherence to common ground rules.
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Manage and rectify ground rule violations.
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Task 3 |
Lead the project team
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Establish expectations at the team level.
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Empower the team.
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Solve problems.
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Represent the voice of the team.
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Support the team's varied experiences, skills, and perspectives.
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Determine an appropriate leadership style.
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Establish clear roles and responsibilities within the team.
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Task 4 |
Engage stakeholders
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Identify stakeholders.
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Analyze stakeholders.
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Analyze and tailor communication to stakeholder needs.
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Execute the stakeholder engagement plan.
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Optimize alignment among stakeholder needs, expectations, and project objectives.
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Build trust and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives.
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Task 5 |
Align stakeholder expectations
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Categorize stakeholders.
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Identify stakeholder expectations.
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Facilitate discussions to align expectations.
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Organize and act on mentoring opportunities.
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Task 6 |
Manage stakeholder expectations
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Identify internal and external customer expectations.
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Align and maintain outcomes to internal and external customer expectations.
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Monitor internal and external customer satisfaction/expectations and respond as needed.
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Task 7 |
Help ensure knowledge transfer
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Identify knowledge critical to the project.
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Gather knowledge.
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Foster an environment for knowledge transfer.
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Task 8 |
Plan and manage communication
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Define a communication strategy.
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Promote transparency and collaboration.
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Establish a feedback loop.
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Understand reporting requirements.
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Create reports aligned with sponsors and stakeholder expectations.
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Support reporting and governance processes.
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Process - 41%
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Task 1 |
Develop an integrated project management plan and plan delivery
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Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude.
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Recommend a project management development approach (i.e., predictive, adaptive/agile, or hybrid management).
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Determine critical information requirements (e.g., sustainability).
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Recommend a project execution strategy.
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Create an integrated project management plan.
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Estimate work effort and resource requirements.
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Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and continued business value.
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Maintain the integrated project management plan.
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Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions
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Task 2 |
Develop and manage project scope
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Define scope.
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Obtain stakeholder agreement on project scope.
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Break down scope.
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Task 3 |
Help ensure value-based delivery
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Identify value components with key stakeholders.
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Prioritize work based on value and stakeholder feedback.
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Assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally.
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Examine the business value throughout the project.
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Verify a measurement system is in place to track benefits.
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Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value.
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Task 4 |
Plan and manage resources
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Define and plan resources based on requirements.
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Manage and optimize resource needs and availability.
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Task 5 |
Plan and manage procurement
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Plan procurement.
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Execute a procurement management plan.
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Select preferred contract types.
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Evaluate vendor performance.
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Verify objectives of the procurement agreement are met.
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Participate in agreement negotiations.
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Determine a negotiation strategy.
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Manage suppliers and contracts.
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Plan and manage the procurement strategy.
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Develop a delivery solution.
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Task 6 |
Plan and manage finance
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Analyze project financial needs.
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Quantify risk and contingency financial allocations.
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Plan spend tracking throughout the project life cycle.
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Plan financial reporting.
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Anticipate future finance challenges.
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Monitor financial variations and work with the governance process.
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Manage financial reserves.
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Task 7 |
Plan and optimize quality of products/deliverables
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Gather quality requirements for project deliverables.
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Plan quality processes and tools.
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Execute a quality management plan.
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Help ensure regulatory compliance.
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Manage cost of quality (CoQ) and sustainability.
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Conduct ongoing quality reviews.
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Implement continuous improvement.
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Task 8 |
Plan and manage schedule
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Prepare a schedule based on the selected development approach
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Coordinate with other projects and operations.
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Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points).
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Utilize benchmarks and historical data.
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Create a project schedule.
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Baseline a project schedule.
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Execute a schedule management plan.
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Analyze schedule variation.
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Task 9 |
Evaluate project status
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Develop project metrics, analysis, and reconciliation.
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Identify and tailor needed artifacts.
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Help ensure artifacts are created, reviewed, updated, and documented.
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Help ensure accessibility of artifacts.
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Assess current progress.
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Measure, analyze, and update project metrics.
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Communicate project status.
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Continually assess the effectiveness of artifact management.
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Task 10 |
Manage project closure
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Obtain project stakeholder approval of project completion.
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Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase.
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Validate readiness for transition (e.g., to operations team or next phase).
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Conclude activities to close the project or phase (e.g., final lessons learned, retrospectives,procurement, financials, resources).
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Business Environment - 26%
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Task 1 |
Define and establish project governance
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Describe and establish the structure, rules, procedures, reporting, ethics, and policies through the use of organizational process assets (OPAs).
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Define success metrics.
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Outline governance escalation paths and thresholds.
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Task 2 |
Plan and manage project compliance
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Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and safety, sustainability, regulatory compliance).
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Classify compliance categories.
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Determine potential threats to compliance.
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Use methods to support compliance.
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Analyze the consequences of noncompliance.
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Determine the necessary approach and action(s) to address compliance needs.
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Measure the extent to which the project is in compliance.
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Task 3 |
Manage and control changes
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Execute the change control process.
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Communicate the status of proposed changes.
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Implement approved changes to the project.
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Update project documentation to reflect changes.
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Task 4 |
Remove impediments and manage issues
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Evaluate the impact of impediments.
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Prioritize and highlight impediments.
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Determine and apply an intervention strategy to remove/minimize impediments.
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Reassess continually to help ensure impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team are being addressed.
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Recognize when a risk becomes an issue.
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Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on an approach to resolve the issues.
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Task 5 |
Plan and manage risk
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Identify risks.
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Analyze risks.
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Monitor and control risks.
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Develop a risk management plan.
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Maintain a risk register (e.g., poor IT security).
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Execute a risk management plan (e.g., risk response for security and managing sustainability risks).
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Communicate the status of a risk impact on the project
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Task 6 |
Continuous improvement
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Utilize lessons learned.
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Help ensure continuous improvement processes are updated.
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Update organizational process assets (OPAs).
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Task 7 |
Support organizational change
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Assess organizational culture.
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Evaluate the impact of organizational change on the project and determine required actions.
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Task 8 |
Evaluate external business environment changes
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Survey changes to the external business environment (e.g., regulations, technology, geopolitical, market).
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Assess and prioritize the impact on project scope/backlog based on changes in the external business environment.
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Continually review the external business environment for impacts on project scope/backlog.
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To achieve the professional designation of PMI Project Management Professional from the PMI, candidates must clear the PMP Exam with the minimum cut-off score. For those who wish to pass the PMI Project Management certification exam with good percentage, please take a look at the following reference document detailing what should be included in PMI Project Management Exam preparation.
