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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

Types of project management

As a bit of a history buff, I'm always curious where some of the designations and best practices came from. This isn't in any way part of the exam, but it's interesting, nonetheless. Winston W. Royce was one of the significant influencing factors in project management. He began his career working on spacecraft projects as an aeronautical engineer. In 1970, he published a very influential article called Managing the development of large software systems, in which he presented several project management models, including what are known as waterfall, iterative, and agile.

The best practices you will learn about in this guide and your training program mostly fall under the category of waterfall or predictive project management. In Chapter 5, Introduction to Agile Considerations, you will cover some Agile best practices and standard frameworks. Why?

These days, it is a critical skill to be able to designate what best practices will work for...