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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)

Overview of agile project management

What exactly is agile? You may be familiar with agile frameworks due to being in the technology world. Ask any software developer what agile is and they will probably be able to explain it, but what if you aren’t a software developer? Is this even something you can use? The answer is yes, yes you can. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you pull a couple of best practices from the Scrum framework and decide to use them on every project. Agile isn’t just for software anymore.

You also might be wondering why any agile appears on the Project+ exam. Remember, the Project+ exam takes best practices from the Project Management Body of Knowledge, or PMBOK® Guide, which is currently in its sixth iteration. The Project Management Institute (PMI®) collaborated with the Agile Alliance to determine best practices that could...