Syllabus of CAPM Certification Training in Chicago
Module 1: Introduction to CAPM Course
- 1. What is CAPM
- 2. CAPM exam procedure
- 3. About the course
Module 2: Project Management Framework
- 1. Definition of a project
- 2. What is project management
- 3. What is program management
- 4. What is portfolio management
- 5. Project management office
- 6. Project constraints
- 7. Stakeholder management
- 8. Organisation structure
- 9. Project lifecycle versus product lifecycle
Module 3: Project Management Processes
- 1. Project lifecycle versus project management processes
- 2. The five project management process groups
- 3. What happens in each process group
Module 4: Project integration management
- 1. What is project integration management
- 2. The key role of the project manager, project team and project sponsor
- 3. Project selection methods
- 4. The integration management knowledge area
Module 5: Project Scope Management
- 1. What is project scope management
- 2. Product scope versus project scope
- 3. The key terms in project scope management
- 4. The project scope management processes
Module 6: Project Time Management
- 1. What is project time management
- 2. What is project schedule
- 3. Key terms in project time management
- 4. Project time management processes
- 5. Schedule network analysis techniques
Module 7: Project Cost Management
- 1. What is project cost management
- 2. Difference between cost estimating and cost budgeting
- 3. Control accounts
- 4. Project cost management processes
- 5. Earned value management
- 6. Project selection methods
Module 8: Project Quality Management
- 1. What is quality management
- 2. What is quality
- 3. Cost of quality
- 4. Project quality management processes
- 5. Seven basic tools of quality
- 6. Introduction to Six Sigma
Module 9: Project Human Resource Management
- 1. What is human resource management
- 2. Functional manager versus project manager
- 3. Project human resource management processes
- 4. Conflict management
- 5. Powers of project manager
- 6. Motivation theory
Module 10: Project Communications Management
- 1. What is communication
- 2. Communication methods, technology, channels
- 3. Basic communication model
- 4. Project communications management knowledge area
Module 11: Project Risk Management
- 1. What is risk
- 2. How is risk calculated
- 3. Risk categorisation
- 4. Decision tree
- 5. Risk reserve
- 6. Risk management knowledge area
Module 12: Project Procurement Management
- 1. Contract
- 2. Centralized versus decentralized contracting
- 3. Types of contract
- 4. Key terms in procurement management
- 5. Procurement knowledge area
Module 13: Project Stakeholder Management
- 1. Stakeholders
- 2. Common stakeholders on a project
- 3. Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
- 4. Skills needed to manage stakeholders
- 5. Project stakeholder management processes
