The success of your project depends on the people involved. The project team members are vital to doing the work of the project efficiently and effectively. The stakeholders connected to the project have the ability to help or hinder a project's success, and therefore need to be kept engaged along the way. A key role of a project manager is the assembling and managing of the project team and any additional stakeholders.

High-performing teams have a shared understanding of and commitment to the project, and possess the appropriate training that empowers them to do the work. In this lesson, you will create a high-performing project team.

• Determine project team member requirements, appraise team skills, and maintain team knowledge transfer. 
• Collectively define project ground rules based on context, such as organizational rules and team dynamics. 
• Determine a negotiation strategy and negotiate project agreements. 
• Organize around team strengths and support team task accountability. 
• Ensure team members and stakeholders are adequately trained. 
• Continually evaluate the effectiveness of virtual team member engagement. 
• Reach consensus and support the outcome of the parties’ agreement. 

Now that you've assembled a high-performing, engaged, and empowered project team, you are ready to get started with the planning of the project.
Planning includes all aspects of a project including budget, schedule, scope, quality, project activities, procurement, and closure.
At the beginning of the project, you also need to determine the project methodology or method that is appropriate for the project.

In this lesson, you will plan the work of the project.

• Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude to determine the appropriate project methodology/methods and practices. 
• Plan and manage the scope.
• Plan and manage the budget and resources.
• Plan, prepare, modify, and manage the project schedule based on methodology.
• Plan and manage the quality of products and deliverables. 
• Integrate project planning activities. 
• Plan and manage procurement strategy. 
• Establish the project governance structure. 
• Plan and manage project/phase closure. 

Now that you have a project plan and have determined the requirements for managing the project from initiation to closure, you are ready to execute the project.
All of the time and effort spent on planning will come to fruition as the project team starts doing the work of the project.
During project execution, the ultimate goal is to deliver business value to the customer. In this lesson, you will execute the work of the project.

• Assess and manage risks. 
• Execute the project with the urgency required to deliver business value. 
• Manage communications. 
• Engage stakeholders. 
• Create project artifacts.
• Manage project changes. 
• Attack issues with the optimal action to achieve project success. 
• Confirm approach for knowledge transfers. 

In this lesson, you will keep your project team on track.
Now that the project team has been assembled and is doing the work of the project, you need to ensure that the team stays on track.

As the project manager, you need to demonstrate the type of leadership that facilitates collaboration among the team and stakeholders, manages conflict, removes obstacles, and supports the team's performance. 

Learn Earn Value Management and several ways of measuring and tracking your team's performance.

• Inspire, motivate, and influence team members and stakeholders.
• Appraise team performance against key performance indicators. 
• Determine, prioritize, and remove impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team.
• Investigate and interpret the source and stage of a conflict and recommend an appropriate conflict resolution solution. 
• Evaluate stakeholder engagement needs and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives. 
• Recognize mentoring opportunities and mentor relevant stakeholders. 
• Promote team performance through the application of emotional intelligence. 
  

Projects don't exist in a vacuum. Internal and external business environments can influence and affect the work of a project.
As the project manager, you need to manage compliance requirements and ensure that the project is delivering benefits and value.

Keeping a handle on the changes in both the internal and external business environments are the project manager's responsibility. 

Employing a continuous process improvement plan will ensure that the project's success can be consistently repeated within your organization. In this lesson, you will keep the business in mind during the life of the project. 

The PMP® Exam dedicate a significant portion of the questions to Agile, however the standard learning materials provided by the PMI curriculum provides very little to prepare students who are not familiar with Agile.

So, we've developed a comprehensive set of learning materials as well as hands-on activities that will keep you interested and engaged. We've also included additional sample exam questions for Agile.

Even if you are familiar with Agile, you can benefit from this additional module. It covers foundational aspects of Agile as well as more sophisticated approaches such as relative sizing, velocity calculations.