PMP Curriculum Flashcards
How do you manage conflict?
- Investigate the conflict
- Find the source
- Determine the cause (one on one)
- Analyze the larger context
- Implement and Track Solutions
How do you make and enforce team ground rules?
- Work together (democratically) to make ground rules
- Share and explain ground rules to ALL
- Model the ground rules (Self)
- Enforce ground rules (Others)
How do you plan and manage a schedule?
- Estimate Tasks
- Use benchmarks and historical data
- Prepare schedules
- Measure progress
- Modify schedules
- Coordinate with others
How do you execute a project with urgency?
- Deliver value incrementally
- Monitor business value
- Divide tasks to find MVP
- Measure progress through data analysis
How do you measure progress?
- Define value from the customer perspective
- Determine value expectations
- Set targets and baseline expectations
- Create metrics that show progress to expectation
- Select data collection means
- Collect data regularly
- Present data
- Compare progress to baseline
- Improve where needed
What are the steps in creating a high performing team?
- Determine skill requirements for project team
- Review the team’s current skills
- Foster diversity and inclusion
- Decide on roles and responsibilities
- Sharpen and diversify team skills
- Facilitate knowledge sharing
How do you empower team members and stakeholders?
- Identify and play to strengths
- Promote team accountability
- Model accountability
- Share authority
How do you engage stakeholders?
- Analyze stakeholders
- Categorize stakeholders
- Engage stakeholders
- Maintain stakeholder engagement
How do you promote team performance through emotional intelligence?
- Assess behavior with personality indicators
- Analyze and adjust to needs
- Support growth and development
How do you lead a team?
- Set vision and mission
- Support diversity and inclusion
- Value servant leadership
- Choose a leadership style
- Inspire, Motivate, Influence
- Understand team and stakeholder influence
- Figure out options for leading
- Maintain team
How do you address impediments, obstacles, and blockers?
- Identify challenges in critical path
- Determine priorities
- Establish solutions
- Keep path clear
How do you build shared understanding?
- Secure buy in
2. Uphold agreements
How do you assess and manage risk?
- Develop risk management approach
- Identify, assess, and prioritize risk response
- Decide risk response
- Implement risk response
How do you manage communication?
- Analyze communication needs
- Plan method, channel, frequency, and detail
- Manage information and updates
- Confirm receipt of information
How do you collaborate with stakeholders?
- Identify stakeholder needs
- Align stakeholders to plan
- Build trust and influence
How do you plan and manage a budget?
- Estimate budget
- Plan and mange resources
- Monitor variations and governance processes (CPI= EV/AC)
- Anticipate future budget changes
How do you negotiate project agreements?
- Understand boundaries of negotiation
- Understand desired outcome
- Determine a negotiation strategy
- Participate in negotiations
- Verify proposal quality
How do you ensure members and stakeholders are trained?
- Assess necessary skills
- Find training options
- Allocate resources for training
- Prioritize training
- Measure outcomes of training
How do you support team performance?
- Match team performance to KPI’s
- Support growth
- Select a feedback approach
- Verify performance improvements
- Support task accountability
How do you engage and support virtual teams?
- Understand virtual communication needs
- Be creative about engagement options
- Use your options
- Keep engagement high
How do you measure progress?
- Plan schedule management
- Define activities
- Sequence activities
- Estimate activity durations
- Develop Schedule
- Control schedule
What are the five stages of Change Management?
- Identify necessary changes
- Document changes in change control form, initiating a formal request for change
- Analyze the impact of the change (assess issues that may arise)
- Coordinate the appropriate stakeholders to select those necessary actions needed to implement said change
- Update project plan with components related to the approved change requests
Activity Cost Estimates
Each task is assigned a budget. The aggregate of the task budgets equals the project budget. Activity costs include labor, materials, equipment, contractors, services, facilities, financial costs
Agile Estimating
A form of planning utilized from the beginning of the projects that will allow the manager to focus on the quality of each deliverable