🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Five PMI Process Groups?
- ✓ Ten knowledge areas?
- ✓ Project Charter — purpose?
- ✓ Difference between project, program, portfolio?
- ✓ Triple constraint?
The PMBOK scaffolding the exam is built on: five process groups, ten knowledge areas, and which process belongs where. The part candidates lose marks on because it is memorisation, not judgement.
Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, Closing.
Integration, Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Resource, Communications, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholder.
Formally authorizes the project; appoints PM; created in Initiating. Without it, you're not officially a project.
Project: temporary, unique product.
Program: related projects coordinated for shared benefits.
Portfolio: collection of projects + programs aligned to strategic objectives.
Scope, Time, Cost — change one and at least one other moves. Quality often added as a 4th dimension.
Hierarchical decomposition of total project scope into deliverables. Lowest level = work packages.
Document describing each WBS element: code, scope, owner, milestones, cost, contract info.
Deliverable → Work Package (managed unit, scheduled and costed) → Activity (atomic action listed in schedule).
Longest path through schedule network; sets project duration. Activities on the critical path have zero total float.
Float (slack): how long an activity can slip without delaying project.
Lead: overlap (start successor before predecessor finishes).
Lag: forced delay between activities.
Crashing: add resources to shorten activity (more cost).
Fast-tracking: run activities in parallel that were planned sequential (more risk).
CV = EV - AC (cost variance).
SV = EV - PV (schedule variance).
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