Creating the Procurement Documents There are many documents that you will need to be familiar with for your exam. And they’re not tough to understand or nail down, they just have some different characteristics here. So in this table are the documents you really need to know. This is in addition to the contracts. So let’s walk through these. Now. A bid said in a quotation are nearly identical. A bid is from the seller to the buyer. And it’s all about just a price. Same thing with a quote….

Planning for the Project Requirements When we do procurement, we need to think about the project requirements. What are we purchasing and how does that satisfy our project requirements? So we’ll look at the project scope statement first. That defines the high level requirements and, well, it really defines exactly what we’re going to create the Project Scope Statement. The work breakdown structure in the WBS dictionary, though, gives us even more detail down to the work package level. So this helps us define what do we need to procure…

Section Overview: Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility Welcome to this section on the PMI code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. You will have questions on your exam about ethics that are related to this PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. In the past, this was its own category of questions. Not anymore. Now these questions are integrated into the different knowledge areas. So it’s not as clear-cut that this may be an ethics question on the Code of conduct, that it’s integrated. Just like in your role as…

Leadership Skills In order to be an effective project manager, we have to be able to manage and lead. So we need to have some good insight, some good understanding of leadership skills. So leadership skills, we’re talking about having a vision, being optimistic and positive, seeking collaboration, managing relationships and conflict. Of course we’re communicating effectively, active and listening, being asking and listening to feedback, giving credit to people where credits do, and then being action and results oriented. So leadership skills, we’re talking about the ability to get…

Section Overview: Role of the Project Manager Look where you are already. You’re ready to go into Section Nine, the role of the project manager. That is fantastic. Good job. Well, in this section, we’re going to talk about you, the project manager. Everybody else talks about you. Why shouldn’t I? Well, we’re really going to talk about the role of a project manager. So what is a project manager? How do you influence people where you work? What about the competencies that you need and the management competencies and…

Section Overview: Review the PMP Exam Domains Welcome to this section where we’re going to talk about the PMP exam domains. This is a really important section because I’m going to cover exactly what you’re tested on. A lot of people miss this. That PMI tells us what the exam will test you on. There’s an assumption that it’s only the Pmbok. That’s not true. There are specific things from the Pinbock, but there are topics that are broader than just the Pinbock guide. So we’re going to look at…

Section Overview: Related Areas of Project Management In this section, we’re going to discuss the related areas of project management. We know that projects aren’t the only entity, the only structure that can happen within our organization. We’re going to nail down those other areas that affect project management that you’ll need to know for your exam, but also AV in your organization. So we want to have a really clear understanding here and look at these different terms. And so if you know the terms, that will help us…

Considering the Cost of Quality Let’s talk about the cost of quality. It’s not cheap to get quality into your project. Quality takes time. It takes having the right tools and equipment, the right materials. So there’s a cost associated with that. There are two terms that we need to know when it comes to the cost of quality. We have the cost of conformance to requirements and we have the cost of non conformance to requirements. The cost of conformance to requirements, sometimes just called the cost of quality,…

Section Overview: Project Quality Management Welcome to section 14 on Project Quality Management in the Pinback Guide. This is chapter eight on Project Quality management. So we’re going to discuss here what is quality, what does it mean to manage a project and have quality in that project project, we’ll look at considerations for adaptive environments, some key concepts you need to know for quality. We’re going to look at the cost of quality or the cost of poor quality. So some differences there and characteristics there you need to…

Section Overview: Project Management Processes Groups and Knowledge Areas Welcome back. In this section we’re going to look at the project management components, the different parts of a project, so things that we didn’t know as a project manager and as a PMP candidate. In this section, we’re going to look at the different components of project management and how they work together. Very important that we don’t need to just have these silos of project management, but it’s integrated that they work together. So that’s one of the things…