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CompTIA Project+ Certification Guide

By : J. Ashley Hunt
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CompTIA Project+ Certification Guide

By: J. Ashley Hunt

Overview of this book

The CompTIA Project+ exam is designed for IT professionals who want to improve their career trajectory by gaining certification in project management specific to their industry. This guide covers everything necessary to pass the current iteration of the Project+ PK0-004 exam. The CompTIA Project+ Certification Guide starts by covering project initiation best practices, including an understanding of organizational structures, team roles, and responsibilities. You’ll then study best practices for developing a project charter and the scope of work to produce deliverables necessary to obtain formal approval of the end result. The ability to monitor your project work and make changes as necessary to bring performance back in line with the plan is the difference between a successful and unsuccessful project. The concluding chapters of the book provide best practices to help keep an eye on your projects and close them out successfully. The guide also includes practice questions created to mirror the exam experience and help solidify your understanding of core project management concepts. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop creative solutions for complex issues faced in project management.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Administrative and team closure

Even though administrative and team closure sound like they would be one and the same, they work together to make sure that everything is formal. On the administrative side of things, you and the team are making sure that all the project records are stored appropriately in your PIMS, having a final lessons-learned meeting, and making sure that all lessons learned and collected during the project are stored as well.

You are documenting lessons learned all the way through the project. During closure, you will be collating them and creating a final project report.

It’s entirely possible that you and the team will have a lessons-learned meeting or a postmortem. Postmortems usually happen in the case of a project being closed before completion or terminated early due to one of the reasons mentioned earlier, specifically starvation and integration...