Process I: Planning Scope, Schedule and Cost
Planning the scope, schedule and cost of predictive and hybrid projects for the July 2026 PMP Process domain: planning depth, baselines and the PMBOK Guide, eighth edition, eliciting, prioritizing and tracing requirements, the scope statement, acceptance criteria, validate and control scope, scope creep and adaptive backlogs, work breakdown structures with the 100 % rule, control accounts and the WBS dictionary, activities, milestones and precedence networks with leads, lags and dependency types, analogous, parametric, bottom-up and three-point estimating, the critical path method with total and free float, crashing, fast tracking, resource levelling and smoothing, Monte Carlo schedule risk, cost estimate classes, escalation and life-cycle cost, budgets with contingency and management reserve, S-curves and funding limit reconciliation, earned value with EAC, TCPI and earned schedule, and a capstone on integrated status and exam calculation strategy, following one invented library branch project throughout.
PMP-130 12 lessons · 5 h 11 min
Offered by HSM University · PMP Exam Prep
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain where scope, schedule and cost planning sit in the July 2026 PMP exam content outline and the PMBOK Guide, eighth edition, and tailor planning depth for predictive, adaptive and hybrid projects
- Elicit, analyse, prioritize and document requirements, including nonfunctional and transition requirements, and maintain a requirements traceability matrix
- Write a project scope statement with deliverables, acceptance criteria, exclusions, constraints and assumptions, and distinguish validate scope, control quality and control scope
- Build a work breakdown structure that satisfies the 100 % rule, with work packages, control accounts, planning packages and a WBS dictionary, and assemble the scope baseline
- Define activities and milestones, sequence them with the precedence diagramming method using the four relationship types, leads, lags and dependency types, and check network logic
- Estimate resources, effort and durations with analogous, parametric, bottom-up and three-point techniques, and recognize estimating biases and adaptive sizing methods
- Perform forward and backward passes to find the critical path, total and free float, near-critical paths and negative float
- Compress schedules by crashing and fast tracking, resolve resource conflicts with levelling and smoothing, interpret Monte Carlo results and establish a schedule baseline
- Prepare cost estimates that cover all resources, distinguish cost types and estimate classes, and account for escalation, currency, cost of quality and life-cycle cost
- Aggregate a budget, distinguish contingency and management reserve, time-phase the cost baseline into an S-curve and reconcile it with funding limits
- Calculate and interpret earned value measures, choose appropriate EAC formulas, apply the to-complete performance index and earned schedule, and measure progress objectively
- Integrate scope, schedule, cost and adaptive measures into status decisions and apply a structured method to PMP calculation and situational questions
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 11 min total · final exam
- 1 Planning in predictive and hybrid projects 29 min · quiz
- 2 Collecting and managing requirements 26 min · quiz
- 3 Defining scope and acceptance 25 min · quiz
- 4 Work breakdown structures and the scope baseline 26 min · quiz
- 5 Defining and sequencing activities 25 min · quiz
- 6 Estimating durations and resources 26 min · quiz
- 7 Critical path method and float 25 min · quiz
- 8 Schedule compression, resource optimization and the schedule baseline 28 min · quiz
- 9 Estimating costs 25 min · quiz
- 10 Budgets, reserves and the cost baseline 25 min · quiz
- 11 Earned value management 26 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: integrated planning and calculation strategy for the exam 25 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Planning the scope, schedule and cost of predictive and hybrid projects for the July 2026 PMP Process domain: planning depth, baselines and the PMBOK Guide, eighth edition, eliciting, prioritizing and tracing requirements, the scope statement, acceptance criteria, validate and control scope, scope creep and adaptive backlogs, work breakdown structures with the 100 % rule, control accounts and the WBS dictionary, activities, milestones and precedence networks with leads, lags and dependency types, analogous, parametric, bottom-up and three-point estimating, the critical path method with total and free float, crashing, fast tracking, resource levelling and smoothing, Monte Carlo schedule risk, cost estimate classes, escalation and life-cycle cost, budgets with contingency and management reserve, S-curves and funding limit reconciliation, earned value with EAC, TCPI and earned schedule, and a capstone on integrated status and exam calculation strategy, following one invented library branch project throughout.