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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)

Creating a stakeholder matrix

Now that you have reviewed the different categories of stakeholders, you have to keep them all straight and create a way to keep track of who they are, how they want to be communicated with, what their expectations are, and so on. If only there were a specific document that you could use to do so. Good news, there is! It's called a stakeholder matrix, and while there isn't one way over another to create and use this document, it will go a long way to helping keep everyone straight. Especially if this is a brand-new project and you have never worked with them before.

Keep in mind during the exam that the assumption is you are managing a brand-new project, creating something you have never done before, and that the project is a large one. You will also get a variety of questions representing different industries managing IT-related projects...