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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By : J. Ashley Hunt
Book Image

Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By: J. Ashley Hunt

Overview of this book

One of the five most prestigious certifications in the world, the PMP® exam is said to be the most difficult non-technical certification exam. With this exam guide, you'll be able to address the challenges in learning advanced project management concepts. This PMP study guide covers all of the 10 project management knowledge areas, 5 process groups, 49 processes, and aspects of the Agile Practice Guide that you need to tailor your projects. With this book, you will understand the best practices found in the sixth edition of the PMBOK® Guide and the newly updated exam content outline. Throughout the book, you'll learn exam objectives in the form of a project for better understanding and effective implementation of real-world project management tasks, helping you to not only prepare for the exam but also implement project management best practices. Finally, you'll get to grips with the entire application and testing processes in PMP® and discover numerous tips and techniques for passing the exam on your first attempt. By the end of this PMP® exam prep book, you'll have a solid understanding of everything you need to pass the PMP® certification exam, and be able to use this handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide to overcome challenges in project management.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Project Management and People
8
Section 2: Project Management Processes
17
Section 3: Revision
19
Chapter 16: Final Exam

Sequencing activities

I find sequencing activities to be the most stressful piece of project management because if you get the order wrong, the entire project could go sideways. It isn't unusual to see (me) project managers gesticulating wildly at their computer screens and asking why the finish date just jumped out ten thousand days into the future. This tantrum is due to the order in which things occur, which affects the dates; then the resources you assign to the activities, which affect the level of effort; and finally the duration of the activities, which will affect everything else. This is the process of schedule creation, but it starts with sequencing activities and some crying.

The goal of sequencing is to determine the relationships between the activities and the dependencies that drive the sequence. There are many reasons why certain activities are performed in specific orders. Dependency determination is typically the first step when sequencing and may encourage...