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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)

Rewards and recognition

The ability to reward and recognize is an important skill in management. How you go about doing that depends on your team and your organizational culture. If your organization doesn’t already have reward and recognition built into their culture or their budgets, it may be time to get creative. There have been many times in my career where I reached into my own pocket and bought my team lunch or brought coffee or candy bars, and even let my team go early on a Friday if they had worked hard that week meeting a deadline. It’s not that you are creating an expectation that every time they work hard they will get something. You don’t want a team demotivated because they aren’t rewarded the way they think they should be every single time. Setting good expectations and SMART goals and then sticking to your side of the bargain is a good...