Creating a High-Performing Team

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Examination Content Outline For January 2021 Exam Update

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PEOPLE
We take the safety and wellbeing of our people seriously. We provide our people with growth
opportunities and we partner with them to unleash our collective potential.

ACCOUNTABILITY
We have the courage to take full responsibility for our actions at all levels.
We set clear targets, we empower our people and we hold them accountable.

COLLABORATION
We work together to reflect the "Power of One" and to create synergies.
We minimize organizational boundaries and work across them effectively.

TRUST AND INTEGRITY

Trust is the foundation of our relationships with our clients, our partners, our people and
our communities. We never compromise on our professional and ethical principles.

EXCELLENCE
We deliver value to our clients through rigorous planning and disciplined execution.
We hedge against complacency by reflecting critically on our business practice.
The PMP Examination Content Outline

The PMP® ECO

• Domain: The high-level knowledge areas that are essential to the practice of project management.
• Task: The underlying responsibilities of the project manager within each domain area.
• Enabler: Illustrative examples of the work associated with the task.

Domain Percentage of Items on Test

I. People 42%

II. Process 50%

III. Business Environment 8%

Total 100%

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Domain| People

Domain Task Enablers

1- Manage conflict • Interpret the source and stage of the conflict
• Analyze the context for the conflict
• Evaluate/recommend/reconcile the appropriate conflict resolution
solution
2- Lead a team • Set a clear vision and mission
• Support diversity and inclusion (e.g., behavior types, thought process)
• Value servant leadership (e.g., relate the tenets of servant leadership to
the team)
People 42%
• Determine an appropriate leadership style (e.g., directive, collaborative)
• Inspire, motivate, and influence team members/stakeholders (e.g.,
team contract, social contract, reward system)
• Analyze team members and stakeholders’ influence
• Distinguish various options to lead various team members and
3- Support team performance • stakeholders
Appraise team member performance against key performance
indicators
• Support and recognize team member growth and development
• Determine appropriate feedback approach
• Verify performance improvements
Domain| People

Domain Task Enablers

4- Empower team members • Organize around team strengths
and stakeholders • Support team task accountability
• Evaluate demonstration of task accountability
• Determine and bestow level(s) of decision-making authority
5- Ensure team members/ • Determine required competencies and elements of training
stakeholders are adequately • Determine training options based on training needs
trained • Allocate resources for training  Measure training outcomes
6- Build a team • Appraise stakeholder skills
People 42% • Deduce project resource requirements
• Continuously assess and refresh team skills to meet project needs
• Maintain team and knowledge transfer
7- Address and remove • Determine critical impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
impediments, obstacles, and • Prioritize critical impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
blockers for the team • Use network to implement solutions to remove impediments,
obstacles, and blockers for the team
• Re-assess continually to ensure impediments, obstacles, and blockers
for the team are being addressed
Domain| People

Domain Task Enablers

8- Negotiate project • Analyze the bounds of the negotiations for agreement
agreements • Assess priorities and determine ultimate objective(s)
• Verify objective(s) of the project agreement is met
• Participate in agreement negotiations
• Determine a negotiation strategy
9- Collaborate with • Evaluate engagement needs for stakeholders
stakeholders • Optimize alignment between stakeholder needs, expectations, and
project objectives
• Build trust and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives
People 42% 10- Build shared • Break down situation to identify the root cause of a misunderstanding
understanding • Survey all necessary parties to reach consensus
• Support outcome of parties' agreement
• Investigate potential misunderstandings
11- Engage and support • Examine virtual team member needs (e.g., environment, geography,
virtual teams culture, global, etc.)
• Investigate alternatives (e.g., communication tools, colocation) for
virtual team member engagement
• Implement options for virtual team member engagement
• Continually evaluate effectiveness of virtual team member engagement
Domain| People

Domain Task Enablers

12- Define team ground rules • Communicate organizational principles with team and external
stakeholders
• Establish an environment that fosters adherence to the ground rules
• Manage and rectify ground rule violations
13- Mentor relevant • Allocate the time to mentoring
People 42%
stakeholders • Recognize and act on mentoring opportunities
14- Promote team • Assess behavior through the use of personality indicators
performance through the • Analyze personality indicators and adjust to the emotional needs of key
application of emotional project stakeholders
intelligence
Domain| Process

Domain Task Enablers

1- Execute project with the • Assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally
urgency required to deliver • Examine the business value throughout the project
business value • Support the team to subdivide project tasks as necessary to find the
minimum viable product
2- Manage communications • Analyze communication needs of all stakeholders
• Determine communication methods, channels, frequency, and level of
detail for all stakeholders
Process 50% • Communicate project information and updates effectively
• Confirm communication is understood and feedback is received
3- Assess and manage risks • Determine risk management options
• Iteratively assess and prioritize risks
4- Engage stakeholders • Analyze stakeholders (e.g., power interest grid, influence, impact)
• Categorize stakeholders
• Engage stakeholders by category
• Develop, execute, and validate a strategy for stakeholder engagement
5- Plan and manage budget • Estimate budgetary needs based on the scope of the project and
and resources lessons learned from past projects
• Anticipate future budget challenges
• Monitor budget variations and work with governance process to adjust
as necessary
• Plan and manage resources
Domain| Process

Domain Task Enablers

6- Plan and manage schedule • Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points)
• Utilize benchmarks and historical data
• Prepare schedule based on methodology
• Measure ongoing progress based on methodology
• Modify schedule, as needed, based on methodology
• Coordinate with other projects and other operations
7- Plan and manage quality of • Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
products/deliverables • Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
Process 50% • Continually survey project deliverable quality
8- Plan and manage scope • Determine and prioritize requirements
• Break down scope (e.g., WBS, backlog)
• Monitor and validate scope
9- Integrate project planning • Consolidate the project/phase plans
activities • Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and
continued business value
• Analyze the data collected
• Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions
• Determine critical information requirements
Domain| Process

Domain Task Enablers

10- Manage project changes • Anticipate and embrace the need for change (e.g., follow change
management practices)
• Determine strategy to handle change
• Execute change management strategy according to the methodology
• Determine a change response to move the project forward
11- Plan and manage • Plan and manage procurement
procurement • Define resource requirements and needs
• Communicate resource requirements
• Manage suppliers/contracts
• Plan and manage procurement strategy
Process 50% • Develop a delivery solution
12- Manage project artifacts • Determine the requirements (what, when, where, who, etc.) for
managing the project artifacts
• Validate that the project information is kept up to date (i.e., version
control) and accessible to all stakeholders
• Continually assess the effectiveness of the management of the project
artifacts
13- Determine appropriate • Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude
project • Recommend project execution strategy (e.g., contracting, finance)
methodology/methods and • Recommend a project methodology/approach (i.e., predictive, agile,
practices hybrid)
• Use iterative, incremental practices throughout the project life cycle
Domain| Process

Domain Task Enablers

14- Establish project • Determine appropriate governance for a project (e.g., replicate
governance structure organizational governance)
• Define escalation paths and thresholds
15- Manage project issues • Recognize when a risk becomes an issue
• Attack the issue with the optimal action to achieve project success
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on the approach to resolve the
issues
Process 50% 16- Ensure knowledge • Discuss project responsibilities within team
transfer for project continuity • Outline expectations for working environment
• Confirm approach for knowledge transfers
17- Plan and manage • Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase
project/phase closure or • Validate readiness for transition (e.g., to operations team or next
transitions phase)
• Conclude activities to close out project or phase (e.g., final lessons
learned, retrospective, procurement, financials, resources)
Domain| Process

Domain Task Enablers

1- Plan and manage project • Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and
compliance safety, regulatory compliance)
• Classify compliance categories
• Determine potential threats to compliance
• Use methods to support compliance
• Analyze the consequences of noncompliance
• Determine necessary approach and action to address compliance
needs (e.g., risk, legal)
2- Evaluate and deliver project •• Measure the
Investigate extent
that to which
benefits the project is in compliance
are identified
Business Environment benefits and value • Document agreement on ownership for ongoing benefit realization
8% • Verify measurement system is in place to track benefits
• Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value
• Appraise stakeholders of value gain progress
3- Evaluate and address • Survey changes to external business environment (e.g., regulations,
external business technology, geopolitical, market)
environment changes for • Assess and prioritize impact on project scope/backlog based on
impact on scope changes in external business environment
• Recommend options for scope/backlog changes (e.g., schedule, cost
changes)
• Continually review external business environment for impacts on
project scope/backlog
 Domain| Process

Domain Task Enablers

4- Support organizational • Support organizational change
change • Assess organizational culture
Business Environment 8% • Evaluate impact of organizational change to project and determine
required actions
• Evaluate impact of the project to the organization and determine required
actions
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