Project Management Ready™

Program Background

The PMI Project Management Ready™ certification is a way for students to immerse themselves in the
project management industry and connect with this passionate community of professionals. The PMI
Project Management Ready certification will introduce and familiarize students to the concepts and
field of project management, and the tools to apply this knowledge to a wide range of career paths. It
fills the need for an industry-recognized certification that allows career and technical education
institutions to add value to their programs across career clusters.

Objectives

By the end of the program, participants will be able to understand about:

• Recognize core terminology
• Identify concepts and terminology of project management planning
• Identify project roles and responsibilities
• Identify tools and systems used for or associated with project management
• Identify common problem-solving tools and techniques
• Identify attributes of a project management plan schedule
• Identify attributes of executing and controlling traditional plan-based projects
• Identify attributes of plan iterations of a project
• Identify agile roles and responsibilities
• Identify attributes of document project controls of an agile project
• Identify components of an agile plan
• Describe task management steps (e.g., Decomposition, Prioritize, etc.)
• Identify attributes of stakeholder communication
• Identify attributes related to gathering requirements
• Identify product roadmap attributes
• Identify components of product delivery

Duration

This program is a 3-day intensive training class.

Assessment

After participating in the training program, participants will take the PMR certification exam which
consists of 47 questions and is only given 50 minutes to complete the exam.

Award

Participants who successfully passed the exam will be given an official Project Management Ready
(PMR) certification from PMI.

Program Modules

Module 1: Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts

Module 2: Business Analysis

Module 3: Traditional Plan-Based Methodologies

Module 4: Agile Methodologies