9-1 Study Group Meeting

Raj and Debra met at Starbucks. Raj had the great news that she starts her new job on Tuesday!! She has an incentive built into her offer letter to encourage her to take the certification test sooner than later. We both agreed we'd shoot for the end of October to take the test.

We decided to continue meeting on Sunday mornings. The next meeting scheduled to be Sunday, September 5th at 9 am. We'll go through the PMBOK chapters using Kim Heldman's PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide. That means the chapters won't be in sequence.

Covered Today:
Heldman Chapter 5: Resource Planning and Estimating
PMBOK Chapter 6—Project Time Management
PMBOK Chapter 9—Project Human Management

Main Learning Points

• Activity Sequencing tools and techniques
• PDM versus ADM
• Activity Duration Estimating tools and techniques
• Cost Estimating tools and techniques
• Analogous estimating versus Bottom-up estimating

To Be Covered Sunday:
Heldman Chapter 6: Establishing Project Planning Controls
PMBOK Chapter 8—Project Quality Management
PMBOK Chapter 11—Project Risk Management
PMBOK Chapter 12—Project Procurement Management

To Learn

• Quality Planning
• Quality Requirements
• Risk Identification
• Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Risk response plan
• Procurement Planning
• Contract types and their usage