9-6 Study Group Meeting

Raj and Debra met at Starbucks. Raj starts her new job tomorrow!! We found that the Study Guide went into more detail on Quality Management theories/theorists: Philip B. Crosby, Joseph M. Juran, W. Edwards Deming and the Kaizen Approach. Raj to share her collection of PMBOK. formulas.

The next meeting scheduled to be Saturday, September 11th at 8 pm. We continue going through the PMBOK chapters using Kim Heldman's PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide.

Covered Today:
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

Main Learning Points

• Quality Planning
• Quality Requirements
• Risk Identification
• Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Risk response plan
• Procurement Planning
• Contract Types and Their Usage
  

To Be Covered Saturday:
Heldman Chapter 7: Creating the Project Plan
PMBOK Chapter 6.4—Schedule Development
PMBOK Chapter 6.5—Schedule Control
PMBOK Chapter 7—Project Cost Management

To Learn

• Calculate Critical Path
• Define Critical Path Task
  
• Describe and Calculate PERT Duration Estimates
• Name Duration Compression Techniques
• Describe Cost Baseline
  

Heldman Chapter 8: Developing the Project Team
PMBOK Chapter 4.2—Project Plan Execution
PMBOK Chapter 9.3—Team Development
PMBOK Chapter 10.1—Communications Planning
PMBOK Chapter 10.2—Information Distribution

To Learn

• Project Plan Execution
  
• Four Stages of Group Formation
• Maslow's Highest Level of Motivation
• Five Levels of Power
• Differentiate between Senders and Receivers of Information
• Five Styles of Conflict Resolution