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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)

Lessons learned and final reporting

Even though lessons learned are documented throughout the project, it’s important to have a lessons-learned meeting at the end of the project. This is the opposite of a kick-off meeting, in which everyone on the team gets together with whichever stakeholders are appropriate to attend and discuss what went well and what didn’t go so well. A lot of my lessons learned over the years were based on surprise risk events, or issues, as well as changes that were or were not approved. All that information can be discussed and then submitted as historical information for future reviews. Remember analogous estimating from cost and schedule estimates? This is where that information comes from. Past projects that are now being used to estimate future projects. I also think it’s important to celebrate success, even if the project was...