The China International Talent Exchange Foundation issued a notice on the revision of the 2020 PMP exam content outline. The notice mentioned that PMI has decided to postpone the revision of the PMP exam in mainland China to December 2020, June and September 2020. This PMP exam still uses the current version. At present, most of the content of the PMP exam comes from the five process groups and ten knowledge fields of the PMBOK guide. The PMP textbook for March, June, and September 2020 is also this one. Therefore, the 2020 PMP exam syllabus will be revised. The December exam has a greater impact.
However, according to the official information received so far, due to the impact of the epidemic this year, the corresponding exam will be revised in June 2021. Then, what changes will the PMP exam have in 2021? In what areas have the PMP exam syllabus changed?
1. Add Agile Project Management Content:
Agile project management content
Changed from the life cycle project management methodology to both predictive and agile, incorporating nearly half of Agile (agile project management) practices. The agile manifesto, principles and methodology have become a must-test content.
2. Changes in question type distribution:
The new version of the syllabus changed from the previous five major process groups (startup (13%), planning (24%), execution (31%), monitoring (25%), and closing (7%)) to divide the examination modules into personnel separately Management (42%), process management (50%) and business environment management (8%) are divided into question modules. The above percentage is the proportion of questions corresponding to each module.
3. Emphasize Changes in Content:
The practical ability of business analysis will be emphasized in future PMP exams. The American PMI emphasizes the mutual influence between the project and the business environment in which it runs, and the American Project Management Association also vigorously promotes business analysts (PBA certification). Therefore, the business environment analysis corresponding to the business environment management module will become an important analysis content for PMP candidates.
In view of the above changes, here are some suggestions for everyone:
1. On the basis of traditional project management, agile management will become more and more important. Whether it is basic learning or practice, it is more necessary to combine traditional project management and agile project management. This September exam shows the increase in the importance of agile management.
2. The exam needs to focus on mastering the agile manifesto and agile framework methods. The methods mastered mainly include: Lean thinking, Scrum agile framework, Extreme Programming (XP) practice and Kanban method, etc.
3. Strengthen the relationship between the project and strategic planning, as well as the methods and methods of business argumentation and demand analysis. Focus on mastering the strategic vision, product roadmap, release iteration plan, user portrait, user story and other content in agile management.
4. Based on the cost of the exam and the content of the exam, the best practice is of course to pass the certification exam before the revision. If you start preparing for the PMP exam now, I recommend SPOTO to help you.
