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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

Tailoring considerations for risk management

Each project is unique, even if it doesn't feel that way much of the time. Due to this uniqueness, we need to make sure that as we tailor our project's processes and life cycles, we will also be considering how risk may impact each project individually. There are several items to consider while tailoring your project, as follows:

  • The size of the project
  • The complexity of the project
  • How important the project is to the overall organizational significance
  • The development approach we choose

All these are important for consideration and could very well impact our ability or lack thereof to manage project risks, whether they be threats or opportunities. Other factors relate to planning the scope of work. Will it be a predictive project, thus making it easier to look down the road for risks? Or, will it be an Agile approach, where the result may be unclear, rendering our risk assessments a bit foggy? The higher...