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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By : J. Ashley Hunt
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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

Tailoring considerations

Because not everyone is mass-producing a product or developing software, it's essential to determine how to tailor your projects based on the necessity of quality and how your organization conforms to quality requirements. Remember, not everyone has a quality assurance or quality control department, or a bunch of Six Sigma black belts running around shouting things like "How many chocolate chips did you count? Wait…how many??!!" Therefore, it is our job to understand how our organizational policies impact our ability to tailor our project quality management. The following certainly isn't an exhaustive list, but more to the point, it covers some areas for consideration when embarking on a new deliverable with quality requirements:

  • Policy compliance and auditing
  • Standards and regulatory compliance
  • Continuous improvement
  • Stakeholder engagement

Many of the items are innate to you if you already are immersed...