Project Management Professional (PMP) 7th to 8th Edition PMBOK Transition

Hours: 14 / Access Length: 12 Months / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Online Hours: 14
Retail Price: $349.00

Course Overview:

This transition course bridges the gap between the 7th and 8th Edition PMBOK® Guides, shifting your focus toward the strategic, adaptive, and value-driven mindset expected of modern project managers. You will master PMI’s situational decision-making logic and develop the leadership, collaboration, and emotional intelligence required to drive project success across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments. By moving beyond traditional deliverables, you will learn to align project outcomes with organizational strategy, manage risk and uncertainty, and effectively engage stakeholders to deliver measurable business benefits. Ultimately, this module equips you with the sharp situational judgment and reasoning skills necessary to excel on the PMP exam and lead modern project teams.

Students will:

• Master PMI Situational Logic: Apply PMI's decision-making reasoning to excel on PMP exam situational questions.
• Lead Diverse Teams: Use emotional intelligence and communication to lead across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments.
• Adopt Product Thinking: Shift focus from simple deliverables to driving outcomes, value, and measurable business benefits.
• Engage Stakeholders Strategically: Navigate organizational dynamics to align project decisions with business goals.
• Manage Risk and Uncertainty: Assess ambiguity and apply adaptive decision-making to handle complex project risks.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: PMI Mindset, Situational Reasoning and Exam Success

By the end of this module, you will understand how PMI expects project managers to think, analyze situations, and make decisions in modern project environments. You will learn how to approach situational questions using PMI's decision-making logic and develop the reasoning skills necessary to improve performance on the PMP exam.

Lesson 2: Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and Team Performance

Develop the leadership, emotional intelligence, communication, negotiation, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement capabilities required to lead modern project teams in Predictive, Agile, and Hybrid environments.

This module prepares you to think like The standard expects modern PM to think:

• Strategically
• Collaboratively
• Adaptively
• With strong situational judgment

Lesson 3: Value Delivery, Benefits and Product Thinking

By the end of this module, you will understand how modern project success is measured through outcomes, benefits, and value rather than deliverables alone.

You will learn how projects contribute to strategic objectives, how organizations realize and measure benefits, and how customer-centric and product-oriented thinking influence decision-making in today's project environments. These concepts will strengthen your ability to answer PMP situational questions and apply a value-driven mindset across predictive, agile, and hybrid delivery approaches.

Lesson 4: Stakeholder Engagement, Influence and Business Alignment

By the end of this module, you will be able to engage stakeholders effectively, navigate organizational dynamics, and align project decisions with business objectives to support successful project outcomes and value delivery.

Lesson 5: Risk, Uncertainty and Adaptive Decision-Making

By the end of this module, you will be able to assess uncertainty, respond effectively to risks and issues, and apply PMI decision-making principles to complex project situations across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments.

All necessary course materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.