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This course is held over four Saturdays: October 19, 26, Nov 2, 9, 2024

 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Pacific Time

CAPM^®: Certified Associate Project Management Certification

 Certification Exam Prep for CAPM^®

This course helps individuals gain more responsibility and increase their skills in their current project role by providing additional knowledge of current project management principles and terminology to work on a wide range of projects using a variety of approaches: adaptive, predictive, and hybrid.

The CAPM^®  certification is essential to gain entry and contributes to career opportunities at entry and associate levels, such as project coordinator and junior project manager.

Whether you are looking to build on your current skillset or pursue an exciting new career, the CAPM^®  distinguishes your skills and empowers you to build the project management career of your dreams.

 Course Description

The CAPM^®  certification is an essential first step in building a career as a project manager and shows that you possess the foundational knowledge and skills that project teams demand. It tests an individual’s aptitude on Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts. It also includes Predictive plan-based methods, Adaptive (agile) frameworks/methods, and Business Analysis frameworks.

This course provides the 23 hours of specific instruction required to apply and be approved to sit for the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM^®) exam from PMI^®.

The current CAPM exam is NOT based solely on the 6th or the 7th edition of the PMBOK Guide but rather on the 2023 CAPM^®  Exam Content Outline and multiple references including the Agile Practice Guide and the Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide.

After 36 months of experience leading a project, individuals can then pursue the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Course format: Live virtual or in-person lecture

 Length of course: 3 days

 Course materials:

• Presentation slides including sample questions for each topic
• Discussions with sample questions
• Flash cards of CAPM^® terms
• Agile Introduction video
• Test bank questions for each of the three exam domains, plus agile concepts (presented 20 at a time to encourage continual review more frequently).
• Replay™ Class Recordings Included

What You Will Learn

 The CAPM^® certification exam tests an individual’s aptitude on Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts.

Updates to the previous CAPM ^® exams include:

• Predictive Plan-Based Methods
• Adaptive (Agile) Frameworks/Methods
• Business Analysis Frameworks

 Course Content

 Lesson 1 – Fundamentals and Core Concepts

 Project Management Discipline

• Organizational Project Management (OPM)
• Organization Structures
• Project Management Office (PMO)
• Organizational Influences
• Life Cycles and Processes
• Development Approaches
• Organizational Culture
• Change Management

Lesson 2 – Leadership

• Leadership vs. Management
• Leadership Styles
• Servant Leadership
• Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Lesson 3 – Roles and Responsibilities

 Project Management Roles

• Stakeholder Roles
• Project Management Skills and Competencies
• Importance of Project Management
• Project Manager Influence
• Motivational Theories/Approaches

 Lesson 4 – Project Initiation

 Project Initiation

• Project Charter and Kick-off Meetings
• Benefits Planning
• Product Roadmaps
• Stakeholders
• Stakeholder Communications
• Communications Management Plan
• Stakeholder Engagement Plan

 Lesson 5 – Project Management Planning

 Planning Concepts

• Project vs. Product Management Plan
• Compliance and Quality
• Risk and Uncertainty
• Integrate Plans
• Planned Strategies and Frameworks

 Lesson 6 – Predictive

 Predictive Approaches

• Process Groups
• Project Planning Components
• Requirements
• Requirements/Data Gathering Approaches
• Project Management Plan – Scope, Schedule and Cost
• Predictive Estimating Techniques
• Resources
• Quality and Risk
• Project Integrations
• Project Baselines
• Predictive Artifacts
• Project Controls and Measurement – Scope, Scheduled and Cost
• Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Control Quality

 Lesson 7 – Adaptive

 Agile Mindset, Methodologies, and Frameworks

• Adaptive Plans
• Adaptive Scope and Iterations
• Adaptive Schedules
• Adaptive Estimating and Prioritization
• Adaptive Teams
• Activities and Artifacts
• Tracking and Measuring Progress
• Uncertainty and Risk

Lesson 8 – Business Analysis

 What is Business Analysis (BA)

• Business Analysis Domains
• BA Roles and Responsibilities
• Methodology Influences
• Validate Requirements

Lesson 9 – Project Closure

 Project or Phase Closure

• Benefits Realization
• Knowledge Transfer

 Audience

Any individual wanting to build their career as a project manager.

 Prerequisites

None