PM1World Friday PMP Certification News - 6th Mar 2020

Deep Dive into one Task from the ECO: Planning Domain, Task 13

*** This only applies for PMP exam up to and including 30th of June 2020 ***

Planning, Task 13 

"Develop the stakeholder management plan by analyzing needs, interests, and potential impact in order to effectively manage stakeholders' expectations and engage them in project decisions."

Q. What is the ECO?

If you have been studying for the PMP Exam using reliable materials or through your own research, you should have come across a document published by PMI called 'The Examination Content Outline', referred to as ECO as a short form.

The ECO is the result of a Role Delineation Study conducted by PMI every few years to examine what do project managers actually do in their roles. This is the basis for PMP examination questions. When exam items are written, the ECO is the key driver of what PM tasks are tested. Because ECO does not contain all the detail, when a question is written, a valid reference must exist that supports the 'correct answer' -- in many cases the reference is the PMBoK Guide. But guess what? It does not have to be. PMP Exam questions can reference many textbooks in project management and questions are not constrained by the PMBoK content.

Why am I telling you this? Because you should review the ECO of the exam you are taking (i.e. from 1st July use the new ECO). It will hint at what the questions are going to be about. In fact, when you get the results from your PMP Exam attempt, PMI gives you an exam analysis showing you for each of the ECO tasks where your strengths and weaknesses are.

Q. Do you notice in Task 13 '... develop the stakeholder management plan' ?

Well, you are going to be tested on that, so make sure you understand it.  Did you notice that in PMBoK that document is called a 'Stakeholder Engagement Plan'? It's the same one and the exam can call it 'stakeholder management plan'.

• Understand how it differs from a communication management plan
• Understand what type of content it would have (read this in the PMBoK Guide)
• Understand that it is a sub-plan of the project management plan so once the project management plan is approved --then changes to the stakeholder management plan need to go through a change control process. 

Q. Do you notice in Task 13 '...in order to engage them in project decisions' ?

So if you want to make sure you have figured out how to engage stakeholders in project decisions, what do you create? Well, the stakeholder management plan.

Q. Do you notice in Task 13 '...by analyzing needs, interests...' ?

You should know how to analyze interest to determine the engagement strategy. Using the stakeholder register that you already created containing what their levels of interest, power, etc are - you can use the stakeholder engagement matrix to help (read in PMBoK).

Also, --- what are some general engagement approaches for a Power/Interest grid?


High Interest - High Power (monitor closely)
High Interest - Low Power (keep informed)
Low Interest - High Power (keep satisfied)
Low Interest - Low Power (monitor)




Q. What did you learn from this analysis of ONE task from the ECO?

-ECO is a great resource to help you to be sure you haven't missed important items in your studies
-1 ECO task can represent 3-6 questions in some cases!!
- Not everything that is tested appears directly in PMBoK

Q. What does it take to pass the Exam ?

The PMP exam is a difficult and long exam. It is important to not only understand the content of the exam but also build up your endurance and timing 😆 by doing a lot of practice questions. However, please be careful because if you practice with the wrong types of exam simulators, it can be detrimental. There are hundreds of people and companies out there who are selling exam questions and simulators with questions from 10 years ago that are nothing like the real exam today.

Q. What Instructor led training is recommended?

My classroom courses and corporate mentored learning are very popular and highly recommended by anyone who has participated. This is because of the quality, currency, and care that we focus on. We take pride in helping each student pass and provide personalised attention to our clients. Our 97% pass rate is extraordinary for this difficult exam. I teach public courses in Australia and dedicated corporate training anywhere. 

Q. Can't come to a class? What online training and or simulator is best and recommended?

We searched and compared the best simulators online out there to partner with and I would like to personally and strongly recommend Prepcast to you. Here is why ...

We (PM1World) have been a PMI Registered Education Provider for over 15 years and I have been teaching the PMP courses since then. Most of our PMP classes have been in-person instructor led classes. We still run our incredibly popular classes (97% pass rate) in Australia. We did not have the resources to maintain a high quality online simulation product and recently set out to find a reliable high quality company to collaborate with. We are including this and bundling it with our classroom courses. Precast has great support, realistic questions, great student feedback -and if you license through one of our links you get extended personal support from me.

After a lot of trials and speaking with customers, we selected Prepcast.  We signed up as an affiliate.

Why would you not just go directly to them to buy it? 

- Free extra support: 
Because if you purchase from us with our link, you get my free personal support to pass the exam. If you come across questions you don't understand, if you have a topic you are not sure of --- you can contact me for help to use any means you like, such as Skype, Zoom, Whatsapp, email.
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👉Gina

Gina.Davidovic@PM1World.com
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