PMP Aspirants Knowledgebase

As per PMBOK 7, the PMI gives 50% priority to the Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid Models of SDLC. The project is driven by 3 domains. The domains have tasks and task enablers to be considered during project management.

As per PMPBOK 6, the Project Management was more focused on Predictive (Waterfall) methods of SDLC. It is divided into 5 Proces Groups and 10 Knowledge Areas.  There were 47 activities that were done during project management. There are more than 130 tools and techniques from 7 different categories.

Project Management Principles

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Project Management Principles

  1. Be a diligent, respectful, and caring steward

  2. Create a Collaborative Project Team Environment

  3. Effectively Engage with Stakeholders

  4. Focus on Value

  5. Recognize, Evaluate, and Respond to System Interactions

  6. Demonstrate Leadership Behaviors

  7. Tailor Based on Context

  8. Build Quality into Processes and Deliverables

  9. Navigate Complexity

  10. Optimize Risk Responses

  11. Embrace Adaptability and Resiliency

  12. Enable Change to Achieve the Envisioned Future State

 

Project Management Performance Domains

  1. Stakeholder Performance Domain

  2. Team Performance Domain

  3. Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain

  4. Planning Performance Domain

  5. Project Work Performance Domain

  6. Delivery Performance Domain

  7. Measurement Performance Domain

  8. Uncertainty Performance Domain

 

Project Integration  Management

  1. Develop Project Charter
  2. Develop Project Management Plan
  3. Direct and Manage Project Work
  4. Manage Project Knowledge
  5. Monitor and Control Project Work
  6. Perform Integrated Change Control
  7. Close Project or Phase

Project Scope Management

  1. Plan Scope Management
  2. Collect Requirements
  3. Define Scope
  4. Create WBS
  5. Validate Scope
  6. Control Scope

Project Schedule Management

  1. Plan Schedule Management
  2. Define Activities
  3. Sequence Activities
  4. Estimate Activity Durations
  5. Develop Schedule
  6. Control Schedule

 

Project Cost Management

  1. Plan Cost Management
  2. Estimate Costs
  3. Determine Budget
  4. Control Costs

 

Project Quality Management

  1. Plan Quality Management
  2. Manage Quality
  3. Control Quality

 

Project Resource Management

  1. Plan Resource Management
  2. Estimate Activity Resources
  3. Acquire Resources
  4. Develop Team
  5. Manage Team
  6. Control Resources

 

Project Communications Management

  1. Plan Communications Management
  2. Manage Communications
  3. Monitor Communications

 

Project Risk Management

  1. Plan Risk Management
  2. Identify Risks
  3. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
  4. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
  5. Plan Risk Responses
  6. Implement Risk Responses
  7. Monitor Risks

 

Project Procurement Management

  1. Plan Procurement Management
  2. Conduct Procurements
  3. Control Procurements

 

Project Stakeholder Management

  1. Identify Stakeholders
  2. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
  3. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
  4. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
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Project Management Process Groups

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Initiating Process Group

  1. Develop Project Charter
  2. Identify Stakeholders

 

Planning Process Group

  1. Collect Requirements
  2. Create WBS
  3. Define Activities
  4. Define Scope
  5. Determine Budget
  6. Develop Project Management Plan
  7. Develop Schedule
  8. Estimate Activity Durations
  9. Estimate Activity Resources
  10. Estimate Costs
  11. Identify Risks
  12. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
  13. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
  14. Plan Scope Management
  15. Plan Schedule Management
  16. Plan Cost Management
  17. Plan Quality Management
  18. Plan Resource Management
  19. Plan Communications Management
  20. Plan Risk Management
  21. Plan Risk Responses
  22. Plan Procurement Management
  23. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
  24. Sequence Activities

 

Executing Process Group

  1. Acquire Resources
  2. Conduct Procurements
  3. Develop Team
  4. Direct and Manage Project Work
  5. Implement Risk Responses
  6. Manage Communications
  7. Manage Project Knowledge
  8. Manage Quality
  9. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
  10. Manage Team

 

Monitoring & Controlling Process Group

  1. Control Costs
  2. Control Procurements
  3. Control Quality
  4. Control Resources
  5. Control Schedule
  6. Control Scope
  7. Monitor and Control Project Work
  8. Monitor Communications
  9. Monitor Risks
  10. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
  11. Perform Integrated Change Control
  12. Validate Scope

 

Closing Process Group

  1. Close Project or Phase
 

PMP Tools & Techniques

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Communication Skills Tools

  1. Communication competence
  2. Feedback
  3. Nonverbal
  4. Presentations

 

Data Analysis Tools

  1. Alternatives analysis
  2. Assessment of other risk parameters
  3. Assumption and constraint analysis
  4. Cost of quality
  5. Cost-benefit analysis
  6. Decision tree analysis
  7. Document analysis
  8. Earned value analysis
  9. Influence diagrams
  10. Iteration burn down chart
  11. Make-or-buy analysis
  12. Performance reviews
  13. Process analysis
  14. Proposal evaluation
  15. Regression analysis
  16. Reserve analysis
  17. Risk data quality assessment
  18. Risk probability and impact assessment
  19. Root cause analysis
  20. SWOT analysis
  21. Sensitivity analysis
  22. Stakeholder analysis
  23. Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
  24. Technical performance analysis
  25. Trend analysis
  26. Variance analysis
  27. What-if scenario analysis
  28. Simulation

Data Representation Tools

  1. Affinity diagrams
  2. Cause-and-effect diagrams
  3. Control charts
  4. Flowcharts
  5. Hierarchical charts
  6. Histogram
  7. Logical data model
  8. Matrix diagrams
  9. Mind mapping
  10. Probability and impact matrix
  11. Responsibility assignment matrix
  12. Scatter diagrams
  13. Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
  14. Stakeholder mapping
  15. Text-oriented formats

Data Gathering Tools

  1. Benchmarking
  2. Brainstorming
  3. Check sheets
  4. Checklists
  5. Focus groups
  6. Interviews
  7. Market research
  8. Questionnaires and surveys
  9. Statistical sampling

Decision Making Tools

  1. Autocratic decisionmaking
  2. Multicriteria decision analysis
  3. Prioritization/ranking
  4. Voting

Interpersonal and Team Skills Tools

  1. Active listening
  2. Communication styles assessment
  3. Conflict management
  4. Cultural awareness
  5. Emotional intelligence
  6. Facilitation
  7. Influencing
  8. Leadership
  9. Meeting management
  10. Motivation
  11. Negotiation
  12. Networking
  13. Nominal group technique
  14. Observation/conversation
  15. Political awareness
  16. Team building

Other Important Tools

  1. Advertising
  2. Agile release planning
  3. Alternatives analysis
  4. Analogous estimating
  5. Audits
  6. Bidder conferences
  7. Bottom-up estimating
  8. Change control tools
  9. Claims administration
  10. Colocation
  11. Communication methods
  12. Communication models
  13. Communication requirements analysis
  14. Communication skills
  15. Communication technology
  16. Context diagram
  17. Contingent response strategies
  18. Cost aggregation
  19. Critical path method
  20. Decomposition
  21. Dependency determination and integration
  22. Design for X
  23. Expert judgment
  24. Financing
  25. Funding limit reconciliation
  26. Ground rules
  27. Historical information review
  28. Individual and team assessments
  29. Information management
  30. Inspection
  31. Knowledge management
  32. Leads and lags
  33. Meetings
  34. Organizational theory
  35. Parametric estimating
  36. Pre-assignment
  37. Precedence diagramming method
  38. Problem solving
  39. Product analysis
  40. Project management information system
  41. Project reporting
  42. Prompt lists
  43. Prototypes
  44. Quality improvement methods
  45. Recognition and rewards
  46. Representations of uncertainty
  47. Resource optimization
  48. Risk categorization
  49. Rolling wave planning
  50. Schedule compression
  51. Schedule network analysis
  52. Source selection analysis
  53. Strategies for opportunities
  54. Strategies for overall project risk
  55. Strategies for threats
  56. Test and inspection planning
  57. Testing/product evaluations
  58. Three-point estimating
  59. To-complete performance index (TCPI)
  60. Training
  61. Virtual teams
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PMP Knowledge Areas

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PMP Toos & Techniques

PMP Communication Skills Tools

Communication Skills Tools

  1. Communication competence
  2. Feedback
  3. Nonverbal
  4. Presentations
PMP Data Analysis Tools
  1. Alternatives analysis
  2. Assessment of other risk parameters
  3. Assumption and constraint analysis
  4. Cost of quality
  5. Cost-benefit analysis
  6. Decision tree analysis
  7. Document analysis
  8. Earned value analysis
  9. Influence diagrams
  10. Iteration burn down chart
  11. Make-or-buy analysis
  12. Performance reviews
  13. Process analysis
  14. Proposal evaluation
  15. Regression analysis
  16. Reserve analysis
  17. Risk data quality assessment
  18. Risk probability and impact assessment
  19. Root cause analysis
  20. SWOT analysis
  21. Sensitivity analysis
  22. Stakeholder analysis
  23. Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
  24. Technical performance analysis
  25. Trend analysis
  26. Variance analysis
  27. What-if scenario analysis
  28. Simulation
PMP Data Representation Tools
  1. Affinity diagrams
  2. Cause-and-effect diagrams
  3. Control charts
  4. Flowcharts
  5. Hierarchical charts
  6. Histogram
  7. Logical data model
  8. Matrix diagrams
  9. Mind mapping
  10. Probability and impact matrix
  11. Responsibility assignment matrix
  12. Scatter diagrams
  13. Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
  14. Stakeholder mapping
  15. Text-oriented formats
PMP Data Gathering Tools
  1. Benchmarking
  2. Brainstorming
  3. Check sheets
  4. Checklists
  5. Focus groups
  6. Interviews
  7. Market research
  8. Questionnaires and surveys
  9. Statistical sampling
PMP Decision Making Tools
  1. Autocratic decisionmaking
  2. Multicriteria decision analysis
  3. Prioritization/ranking
  4. Voting
PMP Interpersonal & Team Skills Tools

  1. Active listening
  2. Communication styles assessment
  3. Conflict management
  4. Cultural awareness
  5. Emotional intelligence
  6. Facilitation
  7. Influencing
  8. Leadership
  9. Meeting management
  10. Motivation
  11. Negotiation
  12. Networking
  13. Nominal group technique
  14. Observation/conversation
  15. Political awareness
  16. Team building
Other Important PMP Tools
  1. Advertising
  2. Agile release planning
  3. Alternatives analysis
  4. Analogous estimating
  5. Audits
  6. Bidder conferences
  7. Bottom-up estimating
  8. Change control tools
  9. Claims administration
  10. Colocation
  11. Communication methods
  12. Communication models
  13. Communication requirements analysis
  14. Communication skills
  15. Communication technology
  16. Context diagram
  17. Contingent response strategies
  18. Cost aggregation
  19. Critical path method
  20. Decomposition
  21. Dependency determination and integration
  22. Design for X
  23. Expert judgment
  24. Financing
  25. Funding limit reconciliation
  26. Ground rules
  27. Historical information review
  28. Individual and team assessments
  29. Information management
  30. Inspection
  31. Knowledge management
  32. Leads and lags
  33. Meetings
  34. Organizational theory
  35. Parametric estimating
  36. Pre-assignment
  37. Precedence diagramming method
  38. Problem solving
  39. Product analysis
  40. Project management information system
  41. Project reporting
  42. Prompt lists
  43. Prototypes
  44. Quality improvement methods
  45. Recognition and rewards
  46. Representations of uncertainty
  47. Resource optimization
  48. Risk categorization
  49. Rolling wave planning
  50. Schedule compression
  51. Schedule network analysis
  52. Source selection analysis
  53. Strategies for opportunities
  54. Strategies for overall project risk
  55. Strategies for threats
  56. Test and inspection planning
  57. Testing/product evaluations
  58. Three-point estimating
  59. To-complete performance index (TCPI)
  60. Training
  61. Virtual teams
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