Basic Definitions – PMP Training

00:01 This module is going to take you through some essential components to help you pass the exam. What we're going to do is to break down each of the 47 processes in the PMBOK guide into inputs, tools and techniques and outputs and show you how that they're interrelated.

00:18 So each of the 47 processes has a description of possible inputs that may be of use to you.

00:26 It has a list of potential tools and techniques that you could use if appropriate, to help you produce a number of possible outputs.

00:35 One of the key factors is the outputs from one process are often inputs into another.

00:42 Now this is key to passing the exam because the exam questions are going to paint a scenario which give you a description of things that have already been done, and you're going to need to know if those things have been done.

00:56 What comes next? And knowing the outputs and how they flow as inputs into other processes will help you do that.

01:05 So let's take a look at just one of the processes in the PMBOK guide.

01:10 As I said, there's 47 of them.

01:12 This is the first one the developed project charter process from the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area.

01:19 It starts with a range of possible inputs that you may have access to.

01:24 Remember, they're not absolutes.

01:26 You don't need to have these.

01:28 So there is an input we have.

01:30 Possibly you may have a project statement of work available to you.

01:34 You may have a business case that has been developed and it may be a small business case or a large business case.

01:40 You may have some agreements as well things like contracts which start the project off, and there are enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets as well that may be available to you.

01:52 You then take these inputs and you can apply to those inputs, those tools and techniques that are useful to you.

01:58 And here they are listed in this case for the developed project charter process.

02:03 We see that there are two tools and techniques that may be of use to us.

02:07 These are expert judgment and facilitation techniques.

02:11 So if we take those possible inputs, we apply the tools and techniques appropriately. We will then produce, in this case, our project charter.

02:20 So this is one of 47 processes throughout the PMBOK guide.

02:24 But as I've said already, the key thing is to understand where the inputs come from and where the outputs go to.

02:31 We'll take a closer look by taking a look at a flow of outputs through the Bot guide.

02:38 We'll map it. So we start with the direct and manage project execution process.

02:46 It is part of the Integration Management Knowledge Area, part of the Executing Domain Group. One of the key outputs from the Direct and manage project execution process are deliverables.

03:00 There are key outputs.

03:02 Let's hear we let's see where they go to become an input.

03:06 They go on to the control quality process, which is part of the quality management knowledge area and it's an executing process.

03:15 Once they go in to this process as an input, they have the right tools and techniques apply to them.

03:21 They will come out as verified deliverables.

03:24 Now verified deliverables go on to be an input into the validate scope process, which is part of the Scope Management Knowledge Area and the Monitoring and Control Domain Group.

03:36 Here we present them to the client.

03:38 And if the client accepts them, they become accepted deliverables as an output from the validate scope process.

03:46 They then go on to become an input into the closed project or phase process, which again is like as part of the integration management knowledge area and part of the closing domain group.

03:58 It's really important that you can map outputs and inputs throughout the whole of the Bot guide, so you can understand in this example that you can't have accepted deliverables if you don't have verified deliverables and you can't have verified deliverables if you don't have deliverables.

04:16 So that was a brief introduction to the inputs, tools and techniques and outputs of the PMBOK guide and the importance of knowing them for the PMP exam.