Business Domain (PMP)
Comprehensive Guide to the Curriculum and Certification
What you'll learn
- Define a project and understand the relationship between a project, a program and a portfolio
- Understand the project life cycle and its management processes
- Get to know the types of project management offices
- Realize project benefits and understand business documents
- Support organizational change, compliance and project governance
- Understand Agile values and principles and its main methods
- Apply the Scrum and Kanban methods
- Understand the user story and DOD and DOR
About this course
This course covers the Business Domain in the PMP project management certification syllabus. It starts by defining a project and the relationship between a project, a program and a portfolio, then the project life cycle and project management processes, the influences, and the types of project management offices. After that it explains realizing project benefits and business documents, supporting organizational change, compliance and project governance. Then it moves to Agile: Agile values and principles, the project life cycle, the main Agile methods, the Scrum method and the Kanban method, the user story, information radiators, and DOD and DOR. It suits project managers, people preparing for the PMP exam and anyone who wants to understand the managerial and organizational side of projects, and it needs no previous experience because it starts with defining a project. The explanation is ordered from the general to the specific, so you move smoothly from defining a project to governance and then to flexible ways of working. By the end, you will understand how a project relates to a program and a portfolio, how change and governance are managed, and the basics of Agile and its methods.
Expected outcomes
- Comprehensive understanding of the business role in project management.
- Ability to achieve project benefits and ensure governance.
- Knowledge of how to support organizational change and address related challenges.
- Enhance your skills in analyzing business documents and execution strategies.
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Course content
1Basics
5 lectures
- Project DefinitionDefines a project and project management and the three exam domains, explaining that a project is temporary with a start and end and produces a unique product or service, why projects begin, and why effective management matters.11:52
- The Relationship Between Project, Program, and PortfolioExplains the difference between a project, program, and portfolio: a program is related projects run by a program manager, a portfolio groups programs, projects, and operations for a strategic goal, and how projects differ from operations.8:49
- Project Life CycleExplains the project life cycle and the difference between the traditional approach when scope is clear and Agile when it is unclear, delivering a usable part after each iteration, phase gates, and governance committee reviews.17:10
- Project Management ProcessesExplains the project management process groups from initiating, planning, and executing to closing with monitoring and controlling, knowledge areas, domain versus task, data versus information versus reports, and tailoring processes.4:55
- Impacts and Types of Project Management OfficesExplains the factors that influence project success: enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets and the lessons learned repository, organization types such as functional and matrix, and project stakeholders.15:00
2Business Domain
2 lectures
- Realizing Project Benefits and Business DocumentsExplains realizing project benefits and business documents such as the business case and benefits management plan, reviewed across project phases, the post-project phase, and the OKR model for goals with measurable results.28:23
- Supporting Organizational Change - Compliance - Project GovernanceExplains supporting organizational change through the ADKAR model, then project governance, its board, roles and processes, and compliance with the regulations, laws, and policies of the company and country where the project runs.9:10
3Agile
8 lectures
- Agile Values and PrinciplesCompares the traditional Waterfall approach with Agile, explaining iterations, the minimum viable product, the four Agile values such as customer collaboration and responding to change, its principles, and servant leadership.20:33
- Project Life CycleExplains the project development life cycles: predictive, iterative, incremental, Agile, and Hybrid, how they differ in delivering the product, with a hospital construction example that combines two approaches.7:05
- Key Agile MethodsIntroduces the main Agile methods such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, and DSDM, and explains Scrum components: roles, ceremonies, and artifacts like the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog, plus the team and Scrum Master roles.10:18
- Scrum MethodExplains the four Scrum ceremonies in detail, including the daily stand-up with its three questions, the roles of Product Owner, Scrum Master, and development team, and Scrum of Scrums for large teams.19:29
- Kanban MethodExplains the Kanban method in Agile, its visual board and limits on work in progress to avoid bottlenecks, with an overview of Lean from the Toyota Production System and a mention of other methods.9:01
- What is a User StoryExplains the user story as a simple requirement description in the Product Backlog kept by the Product Owner, sizing it with story points and Planning Poker, plus spikes and team velocity per iteration.20:36
- Information ScreensExplains Information Radiators and burn charts that compare planned and completed work to show whether a project is ahead of or behind schedule, and covers the servant leader's role in an Agile team.13:10
- DOD and DORExplains Agile concepts that appear in the PMP exam: student syndrome, spikes, personas in design, Definition of Done and Definition of Ready checklists with acceptance criteria, and technical debt with simple code.7:56
Instructor
Eng. Ahmed El-Sayed
This course is part of the diploma
