Preparation Course: Project Management Professional
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Understand the concept and characteristics of a project.
• Clarify the concept of project management, its functions, and objectives.
• Identify reasons for projects deviating from their goals.
• Highlight the role and characteristics of a project manager.
• Discover obstacles and problems facing small and medium-sized projects.
• Understand the project life cycle.
• Ability to plan the project.
• Clarify the stages of organization, execution, and evaluation.
• Identify leading organizations.
• Explore entrepreneurial strategies.
• Explain the nature of entrepreneurship.
• Understand the economic and social importance of entrepreneurship.
• Discover who an entrepreneur is.
• Highlight the behaviors that distinguish entrepreneurs and their characteristics.
• Explain human resource planning and its inputs and outputs.
• Learn how to build a project team.
• Explore the development of the project team.
• Ability to manage the project team.
• Understand the nature of a project feasibility study.
• Discover the differences between feasibility studies and other concepts.
• Explain the importance of economic feasibility studies.
• Highlight the objectives of feasibility studies.
• Explore the basics of feasibility studies.
• Learn how to conduct a feasibility study for any project.
• Explain the problems and ethics of feasibility studies.
• Understand the nature of cost management systems.
• Discover cost categories.
• Clarify the objectives of cost management systems.
• Highlight costs as an information system.
• Explore the role of cost management in economic feasibility studies for projects.
• Understand the communications management plan.
• Clarify major and minor communication obstacles.
• Ability to plan communications.
• Highlight communication methods.
• Discover project manager communications.
• Identify types of communications.
• Explore official communication trends within the project.
• Discover communication errors.
• Understand the nature of project quality management.
• Explain the strategic process.
• Discover management reviews and progress evaluations.
• Highlight project quality management processes.

- Concept of the project.
- Project characteristics.
- Concept of project management.
- Project documents.
- Functions of project management.
- Objectives of project management.
- Reasons for projects deviating from their goals.
- Role of the project manager.
- Characteristics of the project manager.
- Obstacles and problems facing small and medium-sized projects.
- Practical application
- Project life cycle.
- Project planning.
- Organization.
- Execution.
- Evaluation.
- Practical application
- Entrepreneurial organizations.
- Entrepreneurial strategies.
- Nature of entrepreneurial projects.
- Economic and social importance of entrepreneurial projects.
- Who is an entrepreneur?
- Behaviors distinguishing entrepreneurial projects.
- Characteristics distinguishing entrepreneurial projects.
- Practical application
- Human resource planning.
- Building the project team.
- Development of the project team.
- Management of the project team.
- Practical application
- Concept of project feasibility study.
- Differences between feasibility studies and other concepts.
- Importance of economic feasibility studies.
- Why do we prepare feasibility studies?
- Objectives of feasibility studies.
- Basics of feasibility studies.
- How to conduct a professional feasibility study?
- Problems and ethics of feasibility studies.
- Practical application
- Definition of cost management system.
- Cost categories.
- Objectives of cost management systems.
- Costs as an information system.
- Role of cost management in economic feasibility studies for projects.
- Practical application
- Communication in project management.
- Communication management plan.
- Major obstacles to communication.
- Minor obstacles to communication.
- Communication planning.
- Communication methods.
- Project manager communications.
- Types of communications.
- Official communication trends within the project.
- Control of communications.
- Communication errors.
- Practical application
- Nature of project quality management.
- Specification of project quality management.
- Strategic process.
- Management reviews and progress evaluations.
- Project quality management processes.
- Practical application
- Definition of risk.
- Sources of risk and factors contributing to its emergence.
- Definition of project risk.
- Characteristics of project risk.
- Practical application
- Risks associated with project structure and decision-making.
- Risks associated with project management.
- Practical application 1
- Practical application 2
- Case study 1
- Case study 2
- Case study 3
- Review of the seventh edition of the PMBOK 7.0 book.
- Overview of the course and summary of what has been covered.
- How to prepare for the PMP exam + tips and tricks for the PMP exam.
- How to register for the PMP exam.
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
UAE
Canada