The irony was that I was asking myself just yesterday evening why DM never came up with a comprehensive 1-2 hr PMBOK Process Groups video. Well, the world is full of pleasant surprises!
Hi David, I just passed my PMP exam yesterday. I study exclusively with your content, and all your videos are super helpful and helped me pass the exam. I just wanted to send you a quick thank you to express my gratitude.
Hi David, I passed my PMP exam on 25 April 2024. I failed it on 7 February though I felt I know the content... I was emotionally down, wasn't sure what to study, which tests to purchase to practice. Your videos, what I watched for weeks day and night helped me to prepare both mentally for the exam and to know how to look at the questions through PMI eye for testing. Thankful for all your video, tutorial materials you share on youtube. Keep up helping the project manager community :)
Hey, this is awesome news! I don't know you, but man, congratulations! I'm studying up for CAPM as I'm not yet qualified for PMP but I'm getting overwhelmed by the materials I'm learning day to day. I'm on my second week studying and planning to take it mid May. I know that you opted for PMP exam, but any tips here on taking the exam?
Hi David, I have successfully passed the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam. your videos and contents are super helpful and helped me pass the exam. Many thanks to you.
I am going to start preparing for the exam with your videos, I have already read all the content in the PMI Study Hall and at the same time I am practicing with the exams available on the platform. When I finish watching all your videos I will take the exam, my goal is to do it in 3 months. And I start today 11/11/2024 Message to myself in the future, thank you for putting in all the hours, it was worth it.
I cleared my PMP exam recently. The content on your channel is absolutely amazing. Solved your 150 questions on PMBOK 7, 200 on Agile and also went through numerous videos on the course content including this one. The 1 hour wrap up on PMBOK 7 and Process group is amazing. A big thank you to you David. God bless..
Thank you David! You are awesome! You gave me the confidence and the ways of working thru my PMP exam journey! I passed with 3 AT! I recived my results today! Thank you again! Your energy and postive vibes thru out and the excitement to teach and learn! Thanks!
Hi David, I passed my PMP exam this week. I swear to God that I could hear your voice while reading the questions. Thank you for offering this education. You helped me so much!
David, I'm taking my PMP exam tomorrow, let you know how it goes. I feel like your content, above all, has truly helped me the most, and I have PMI's practice exam, Study Hall, AR's Udemy class, and I have read countless articles, the 7th edition material, PMP subreddit, other youtubers, other udemy practice exams... but truly, your content reigns supreme, not even close. I bought those templates half because I want them in my back pocket for quick use and inspiration, and half because I felt like supporting you and this incredible body of work. Thank you, truly.
Hi David, I will be taken my PMP Test on Sept 21, 2024. This will be my second time taken the test, I have found your videos and testing knowledge very helpful. I have mixed emotions about taking the test again. I will let you know the outcome.
Excellent work, David！I passed my PMP with all three areas above target a couple weeks ago. But I still find your videos very useful after this effort!
Hi David , I passed my PMP Exam with overall above target score. Your videos are relevant, well paced, to the point and helpful in clearing the doubts. Thanks for all your help. Best of luck. 💐🙏🏻
David, I must thank you for a great deal of advice you rendered through the way you assessed each question in practices review. I passed my PMP exam last Friday, I really appreciate your part in that. Thank you much !!
Hi David, do you know that you are amazing? I am studying for the PMP exam, and your videos help me a lot to understand the concepts in every chapter I start. Your well-structured videos are excellent. I appreciate your time, support, and efforts.🙂
Passed my exam AT/AT/AT. Your course and TH-cam videos were the foundation of my study plan, so thank you very much. One comment for your future videos: the exam frequently referenced a "steering group" or a "steering committee," which is terminology I didn't hear a lot in my preparation.
Congratulations on passing your exam! And thank you for the info, I will add steering committee to the course 🙂 It's usually just the group of executives or advisors overseeing your protect (and others). They might be funding your project and their areas might be impacted by your project, so they need to be kept informed. Things can also be escalated there as an absolute last resort. Thank you and congratulations again!
It really is! It's a simplified version of the PMBOK 6th Ed, which I absolutely love. Combine this with the Agile Practice Guide too 👍😊 For the CAPM also, just know that Business Analysts work with stakeholders to gather / elicit requirements. So most things in the Scope and Stakeholders and Quality knowledge areas.
Hi David I got a question about the 1st goup of process "initiation" stockholder identification exactly in the ITTO where you put "project management pan" as an INPUT of this process ! how this could be done and we are at the 1st stage of the project lifecycle which is INITIATION ? and as you know to PM plan is an output of the process group " PLANNING" please clarify Thank you
I can. Do you have a source or book in mind? (i.e PMI Guide to Business Analysis?). The tools there are the same as in the PMBOK Guide, and the process is largely similar but with the main focus on requirements and scope 🙂
Hi David! Do you have a pattern recognition and categorization per color on the complete breakdown of the process groups? For instance, I noticed that some are blue, gray, purple, and blue. Thank you for your help!
Hi @David! I watched your Agile vs Waterfall video and it was really good. I just got one question, is this video only referring to the Waterfall? I see similarities with Agile but it looks Waterfall to me. Thanks for clarifying
Great observation! This guide is more Predictive, but many of the process steps are needed in Agile as well. We still need to gather requirements, define scope, break it down, estimate it, plan quality and risk and communication and cost. The way we do them changes slightly (e.g. Cost is often fixed and Scope is variable on an Agile project) but we still need to plan them. Very good insight! Quite advanced 😊
Hi David, How is risk register a project document input for define scope when sequentially the risk register is an output of identify risks and comes later in the planning process group? It seems like a circular argument because the input for identify risks is the scope baseline.
You are right, in that it is circular. It doesn't necessarily all go in a straight line. And on the first pass we might not use risks as an input, but as the project evolves we can 🙂
Hi David, your videos are classic, educative, and well structured. Thank you. Pl share softcopy of this process Mindmap, it will be helpful to print n revise. Any exam day tips will be helpful too😅
This is amazing! Where can I find your "Process Groups Practice Guide, outlined as a Mind Map guide to print and study from? Do you have it on Etsy as well?
Hi David, I have completed your PMP course and booked for my PMP exam. I was wondering where I can download the PDF of the PMBOK 6th Edition that has been discontinued by PMI?
Hi Robert, it is now called the Process Groups Practice Guide - still available for free as part of your PMI membership. It's slightly shorter than the PMBOK 6th ed, but with the same information 🙂
@@davidmclachlanproject so you have created extremely wide power point page and used animation to show processes in the right order, but how you made a notes ? Stylus ?
There is an aspect to this that seems circular to me. When in the Initiating process of identifying stakeholders, how can the Communication Management Plan be an input when it is a Planning process, which comes after Initiation? And there are others. In the Planning stage, the first process for each Knowledge Group is "Plan [enter knowledge group name]," which are followed by the steps in planning for that group. How can Plan Schedule Management be a step in the Project Schedule Management group when the subsequent activities are the activities for planning the mangement? Defining activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity durations, and developing schedule ARE the steps for planning Schedule Management. What is there to "planning Schedule Management" that are not those things? In Communications Management, we have "Plan Communication Management" and no other steps in the Planning process. Sooo...if we know what to do to plan communication management without itemizing steps, why do we need to itemize steps in Schedule Management? Why is not equally sufficient to simply say "Plan Schedule Management" without further itemization? Maybe I'm speaking out of turn as I have only recently scheduled my exam, haven't sat for it yet. Perhaps, by the time I do sit for it, I'll better understand this; either that, or, once I'm a fully-fledged certified PMP, I might want to find a way to get more vocal/involved when it comes to revising future editions of the PMBoK.
Great comment. You are right, but it is by design. Sometimes it can be circular, sometimes parallel (at the same time). It is just described in sequence because I can't describe two things at the same time 🙂 But yes, defining activities, estimating activities, etc, are all tasks we need to do to fill out our Schedule Management Plan. But we can still outline our schedule management PROCESS (how we will do all these things) first. And - we might come back later and adjust this process as well!
@@davidmclachlanproject I appreciate your attentiveness and feedback. I actually do understand your reply. It reminded me of previous instructor's emphasis that the Project Management Plan can't really be done linearly, a lot of things happen concurrently as well as that no project can be managed by using everything in the PMBoK guide, as organizations and people simply do not all work the same way. This isn't about how it's written in stone, it's more about becoming conversant with all the available tools, and having the knowledge and wisdom to know which and when tools can be used to increase chances of success (and, this has been also somewhat of an attempt to apply the Feynman method, to explain something to others...um, kinda :-) Cheers, mate.
@@norhayatinoradin3887 I’m sorry to hear that it is so heartbreaking but we cannot give up if it’s really what we want I am assessing that myself I must admit. I’m also assessing what can I do differently now that I know what to expect. I wish you the best on whatever your decision is. Just know you are not alone. I am sad but doing my best to press through it.
Hi David , I passed my PMP Exam with overall above target score. Your videos are relevant, well paced, to the point and helpful in clearing the doubts. Thanks for all your help. Best of luck. 💐🙏🏻
The irony was that I was asking myself just yesterday evening why DM never came up with a comprehensive 1-2 hr PMBOK Process Groups video. Well, the world is full of pleasant surprises!
Still can't believe this quality of information is available for free.. excellent job as always!
Hi David, I just passed my PMP exam yesterday. I study exclusively with your content, and all your videos are super helpful and helped me pass the exam. I just wanted to send you a quick thank you to express my gratitude.
Hi David, I passed my PMP exam on 25 April 2024. I failed it on 7 February though I felt I know the content... I was emotionally down, wasn't sure what to study, which tests to purchase to practice. Your videos, what I watched for weeks day and night helped me to prepare both mentally for the exam and to know how to look at the questions through PMI eye for testing. Thankful for all your video, tutorial materials you share on youtube. Keep up helping the project manager community :)
Hey, this is awesome news! I don't know you, but man, congratulations! I'm studying up for CAPM as I'm not yet qualified for PMP but I'm getting overwhelmed by the materials I'm learning day to day. I'm on my second week studying and planning to take it mid May. I know that you opted for PMP exam, but any tips here on taking the exam?
@@franzbartolome6201how’s the CAPM studying going?
@@sergeilopez4575 It might be a news, but I passrd both CAPM (May) and PMP (August)
@@franzbartolome6201 wow congratulations man. What’s the resources you used and your study plan?
Hi David, I have successfully passed the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam. your videos and contents are super helpful and helped me pass the exam. Many thanks to you.
I am going to start preparing for the exam with your videos, I have already read all the content in the PMI Study Hall and at the same time I am practicing with the exams available on the platform.
When I finish watching all your videos I will take the exam, my goal is to do it in 3 months.
And I start today 11/11/2024
Message to myself in the future, thank you for putting in all the hours, it was worth it.
I cleared my PMP exam recently. The content on your channel is absolutely amazing. Solved your 150 questions on PMBOK 7, 200 on Agile and also went through numerous videos on the course content including this one. The 1 hour wrap up on PMBOK 7 and Process group is amazing. A big thank you to you David. God bless..
Thank you David! You are awesome! You gave me the confidence and the ways of working thru my PMP exam journey! I passed with 3 AT! I recived my results today! Thank you again! Your energy and postive vibes thru out and the excitement to teach and learn! Thanks!
So excited. So many people have passed using your videos. I hope to be as successful.
I passed my PMP going through your videos...your explanation is gold 🥇
Hi David, I passed my PMP exam this week.
I swear to God that I could hear your voice while reading the questions.
Thank you for offering this education. You helped me so much!
You are amazing. I knew you could do it! Congratulations and celebrate well 🎉😊
David, I'm taking my PMP exam tomorrow, let you know how it goes. I feel like your content, above all, has truly helped me the most, and I have PMI's practice exam, Study Hall, AR's Udemy class, and I have read countless articles, the 7th edition material, PMP subreddit, other youtubers, other udemy practice exams... but truly, your content reigns supreme, not even close. I bought those templates half because I want them in my back pocket for quick use and inspiration, and half because I felt like supporting you and this incredible body of work. Thank you, truly.
Thanks David your videos were really helpful for PMP preparation, I passed my PMP 2 days back and got Above target in all 3 domain.
i've got my PMP certification watching your videos, super helpful, best on youtube.....thanks david
Your voice has a soothing effect , by removing anxiety in our mind . Thanks for spreading the knowledge openly
Hi David, I will be taken my PMP Test on Sept 21, 2024. This will be my second time taken the test, I have found your videos and testing knowledge very helpful. I have mixed emotions about taking the test again. I will let you know the outcome.
Best of luck
All the best
hope you get the good news soon
I have passed my test!! Thank you for the videos.
@@MAGNblk_podcast congratulations!!!! you win some letters next to your name! WOOT!
All of David's videos were instrumental in passing my PMP. Phenomenal study materials in a perfect format.
Thnaks for your videos. I passed my PMP AT by using your videos and others stuff.
Hi David, I passed my PMP Today. Thank you for taking the time to provide the information that is very relevant for the exam. Excellent job!!
One of the best fast track refresher of all 49 processes
Excellent work, David！I passed my PMP with all three areas above target a couple weeks ago. But I still find your videos very useful after this effort!
What are these 3 areas please?
Hi David , I passed my PMP Exam with overall above target score. Your videos are relevant, well paced, to the point and helpful in clearing the doubts. Thanks for all your help. Best of luck. 💐🙏🏻
congratulations for your accomplishment! Can you advise what else have you studied besides David's videos?
@@marcelanaste7877 Agile guide, numerous questions and answers to clear the concept doubts
Great and well summarized and logical PPT on Project Process Group. Thanks David. I do believe that your lessons and practice courses are excellent.
David, I must thank you for a great deal of advice you rendered through the way you assessed each question in practices review. I passed my PMP exam last Friday, I really appreciate your part in that. Thank you much !!
Hi David, do you know that you are amazing? I am studying for the PMP exam, and your videos help me a lot to understand the concepts in every chapter I start. Your well-structured videos are excellent. I appreciate your time, support, and efforts.🙂
When are you planning to do the exam?
Hi David 👋, just passed my PMP exam. Thank you for all your help 🎉
David, you had an enormous positive impact in my PMP cert. Thanks for all your vids and advice!
Mucha gracias por tu esfuerzo y dedicación David, tus videos me fueron de ayuda para realizar el PMP y obtener mi certificado 🙂.
Perfect timing to watch and review the content of this book just before my exam on Thursday ❤
Passed my exam AT/AT/AT. Your course and TH-cam videos were the foundation of my study plan, so thank you very much. One comment for your future videos: the exam frequently referenced a "steering group" or a "steering committee," which is terminology I didn't hear a lot in my preparation.
Congratulations on passing your exam! And thank you for the info, I will add steering committee to the course 🙂 It's usually just the group of executives or advisors overseeing your protect (and others). They might be funding your project and their areas might be impacted by your project, so they need to be kept informed. Things can also be escalated there as an absolute last resort. Thank you and congratulations again!
Fantastic video. Thank you so much, David!
The Process Group Practice Guide is a very helpful book. I am finishing it next week as part of my CAPM exam prep.
It really is! It's a simplified version of the PMBOK 6th Ed, which I absolutely love. Combine this with the Agile Practice Guide too 👍😊
For the CAPM also, just know that Business Analysts work with stakeholders to gather / elicit requirements. So most things in the Scope and Stakeholders and Quality knowledge areas.
Excellent David, I am learning a lot from your videos, Best regard
I was looking for some revision video for my interview and this was amazing, just the stuff I was looking for.
This is great, I can listen while driving.
Please can you make something like this for Agile practice guide. Thank you!!!!
Oh my God u back, thanks Dave
Hi David I got a question about the 1st goup of process "initiation" stockholder identification exactly in the ITTO where you put "project management pan" as an INPUT of this process ! how this could be done and we are at the 1st stage of the project lifecycle which is INITIATION ? and as you know to PM plan is an output of the process group " PLANNING" please clarify Thank you
Hi David,
Can't thank you enough for your videos. Could you please make a video on Business Analysis Frameworks for CAPM exam??
I can. Do you have a source or book in mind? (i.e PMI Guide to Business Analysis?).
The tools there are the same as in the PMBOK Guide, and the process is largely similar but with the main focus on requirements and scope 🙂
Perfect video. Thanks!
Hi David!
Super helpful! Will you make this diagram available as a PDF?
1st. Passed btw thanks to your question and answer video.
excellent video, thank you Mr David
Hi David! Do you have a pattern recognition and categorization per color on the complete breakdown of the process groups? For instance, I noticed that some are blue, gray, purple, and blue.
Thank you for your help!
Thank you for this guide, David.
Hi @David! I watched your Agile vs Waterfall video and it was really good. I just got one question, is this video only referring to the Waterfall?
I see similarities with Agile but it looks Waterfall to me. Thanks for clarifying
Great observation! This guide is more Predictive, but many of the process steps are needed in Agile as well.
We still need to gather requirements, define scope, break it down, estimate it, plan quality and risk and communication and cost. The way we do them changes slightly (e.g. Cost is often fixed and Scope is variable on an Agile project) but we still need to plan them.
Very good insight! Quite advanced 😊
Hi David,
How is risk register a project document input for define scope when sequentially the risk register is an output of identify risks and comes later in the planning process group? It seems like a circular argument because the input for identify risks is the scope baseline.
You are right, in that it is circular. It doesn't necessarily all go in a straight line. And on the first pass we might not use risks as an input, but as the project evolves we can 🙂
Hi David, your videos are classic, educative, and well structured. Thank you.
Pl share softcopy of this process Mindmap, it will be helpful to print n revise.
Any exam day tips will be helpful too😅
Brilliant! Thank you so much!
thank you so much David!
Hi David, thank you very much for the wonderful content you share. Do you have any suggestions on how to prepare for the PgMP Exam at PMI?
You are a PMP bomb with a suppressor❤
Amazing David.
Dear David, thank you for the video.
On which material should I give focus, PMP 6th edition or 7th edition?
This is amazing! Where can I find your "Process Groups Practice Guide, outlined as a Mind Map guide to print and study from? Do you have it on Etsy as well?
Mr David First of all, Many thanks for this wonderful class!
I was wondering if there was there any discount on templates for a full-time student?
Hi David, Do you have any PMP Exam Simulator or can you please refer some?
I have 500 questions in my Udemy PMP course, and 200 questions in my ACP course, along with all the videos as well.
@@davidmclachlanproject Thanks David.
Hi David, I have completed your PMP course and booked for my PMP exam. I was wondering where I can download the PDF of the PMBOK 6th Edition that has been discontinued by PMI?
Hi Robert, it is now called the Process Groups Practice Guide - still available for free as part of your PMI membership.
It's slightly shorter than the PMBOK 6th ed, but with the same information 🙂
@@davidmclachlanproject Thanks David, I appreciate the feedback and have the Process Groups Practice Guide downloaded.
Well explained
How many questions on the PMP exam are related to this video?
50% of the exam is from the Process section alone.....
@@tlindsey1977thanks
@@tlindsey1977 50% process, 20% agile, 30% PMbok7?
Amazing!!!
David-is there a reason I cannot find your course on business Udemy? Is it not offered there?
Dear David , thanks for your presentation!
Can you please share what software did you use for this animated presentation? Looks like some whiteboard ?
It is PowerPoint 🙂
@@davidmclachlanproject so you have created extremely wide power point page and used animation to show processes in the right order, but how you made a notes ? Stylus ?
Is this entire mind map presentation available somewhere?
Hi David, which books I need to crack the PMP exam?
Process Groups Practice Guide, PMBOK 7th Ed, and Agile Practice Guide. Scrum Guide also helps 😊
There is an aspect to this that seems circular to me. When in the Initiating process of identifying stakeholders, how can the Communication Management Plan be an input when it is a Planning process, which comes after Initiation?
And there are others. In the Planning stage, the first process for each Knowledge Group is "Plan [enter knowledge group name]," which are followed by the steps in planning for that group. How can Plan Schedule Management be a step in the Project Schedule Management group when the subsequent activities are the activities for planning the mangement? Defining activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity durations, and developing schedule ARE the steps for planning Schedule Management. What is there to "planning Schedule Management" that are not those things?
In Communications Management, we have "Plan Communication Management" and no other steps in the Planning process. Sooo...if we know what to do to plan communication management without itemizing steps, why do we need to itemize steps in Schedule Management? Why is not equally sufficient to simply say "Plan Schedule Management" without further itemization?
Maybe I'm speaking out of turn as I have only recently scheduled my exam, haven't sat for it yet. Perhaps, by the time I do sit for it, I'll better understand this; either that, or, once I'm a fully-fledged certified PMP, I might want to find a way to get more vocal/involved when it comes to revising future editions of the PMBoK.
Great comment. You are right, but it is by design. Sometimes it can be circular, sometimes parallel (at the same time). It is just described in sequence because I can't describe two things at the same time 🙂
But yes, defining activities, estimating activities, etc, are all tasks we need to do to fill out our Schedule Management Plan. But we can still outline our schedule management PROCESS (how we will do all these things) first. And - we might come back later and adjust this process as well!
@@davidmclachlanproject I appreciate your attentiveness and feedback. I actually do understand your reply. It reminded me of previous instructor's emphasis that the Project Management Plan can't really be done linearly, a lot of things happen concurrently as well as that no project can be managed by using everything in the PMBoK guide, as organizations and people simply do not all work the same way. This isn't about how it's written in stone, it's more about becoming conversant with all the available tools, and having the knowledge and wisdom to know which and when tools can be used to increase chances of success (and, this has been also somewhat of an attempt to apply the Feynman method, to explain something to others...um, kinda :-) Cheers, mate.
That is brilliant! Love it. 😁
Hello is there away to print the training out? I want to use for studying for the Pmp I failed my first time😢
Same :(
@@norhayatinoradin3887 I’m sorry to hear that it is so heartbreaking but we cannot give up if it’s really what we want I am assessing that myself I must admit. I’m also assessing what can I do differently now that I know what to expect. I wish you the best on whatever your decision is. Just know you are not alone. I am sad but doing my best to press through it.
Im glad u r not giving up. Is the test different from the questions from the ones he have in his videos?
HI DAVID PLS LIKE THIS COMMENT
Failed 😢
Get a better mic.. its not very clear to hear the information.. very muffled
Hi David , I passed my PMP Exam with overall above target score. Your videos are relevant, well paced, to the point and helpful in clearing the doubts. Thanks for all your help. Best of luck. 💐🙏🏻