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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)

Formal Project or Phase Closure and Agile Project Management

In this chapter, you will review how projects or phases are closed out formally and what types of project endings you could be working with. You will also review how to obtain a formal sign-off of the deliverables, as well as administrative closure and lessons learned. Then, you will review an immensely popular agile framework called Scrum, and how having a more adaptive approach to your projects can help manage many changes. The tools and techniques you will learn can help you improve your agility.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Project or phase closure
  • Formal acceptance of the deliverable
  • Administrative and team closure
  • Lessons learned and final reporting
  • Overview of agile project management
  • Introduction to the Scrum framework
  • Hybrid or tailored project management

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