Project Management Foundations for the PMP
The foundations the PMP builds on: projects, programs and portfolios, value delivery and selection measures, the project manager's role, the Talent Triangle and PMI ethics, the six principles, seven performance domains and five focus areas of the PMBOK Guide 8th edition, development approaches and tailoring, structures, PMOs and governance, EEFs and OPAs, initiation, team basics, and models, methods and artifacts, with US public-sector examples.
PMP-110 12 lessons · 5 h 49 min
Offered by HSM University · PMP Exam Prep
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Distinguish projects from operations, and projects from programs and portfolios, and explain why organizations initiate projects
- Explain value delivery and benefits management, and interpret NPV, IRR, payback, benefit-cost ratio and weighted scoring in selection decisions
- Describe the project manager's role, spheres of influence and integration responsibility, the PMI Talent Triangle and the PMI Code of Ethics
- Apply the six principles of the PMBOK Guide 8th edition to project decisions and relate them to the twelve principles of the 7th edition
- Describe the seven performance domains and five focus areas of the 8th edition and relate them to the three domains of the 2026 exam content outline
- Compare predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive and hybrid approaches, choose an approach from project factors and tailor processes to context
- Explain how functional, matrix and projectized structures, PMO types and governance arrangements affect project authority and decisions
- Identify enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets and use historical information, assumptions and constraints in planning
- Explain the business case, project charter, assumption log and stakeholder register, and classify stakeholders with the power-interest grid
- Describe common project roles, use a RACI chart, and outline team development, motivation, conflict approaches and distributed team practices
- Distinguish models, methods and artifacts, and apply examples such as Cynefin, ADKAR, three-point estimates, decision trees and burndown charts
- Design and justify a tailored hybrid approach for a realistic project, linking selection, initiation, governance, stakeholders and principles
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 49 min total · final exam
- 1 Projects, operations, programs and portfolios 27 min · quiz
- 2 Value delivery and benefits 28 min · quiz
- 3 The project manager's role and the Talent Triangle 27 min · quiz
- 4 The principles of project management 28 min · quiz
- 5 The performance domains and focus areas 26 min · quiz
- 6 Development approaches, life cycles and tailoring 29 min · quiz
- 7 Organizational structures, PMOs and governance 29 min · quiz
- 8 Enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets 30 min · quiz
- 9 Project initiation: business case, charter and stakeholders 28 min · quiz
- 10 The project team and leadership basics 31 min · quiz
- 11 Models, methods and artifacts 32 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: tailoring a project approach 34 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
The foundations the PMP builds on: projects, programs and portfolios, value delivery and selection measures, the project manager's role, the Talent Triangle and PMI ethics, the six principles, seven performance domains and five focus areas of the PMBOK Guide 8th edition, development approaches and tailoring, structures, PMOs and governance, EEFs and OPAs, initiation, team basics, and models, methods and artifacts, with US public-sector examples.