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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)

Monitoring team performance

As we move further through the project and begin to monitor project performance, you’ll see that there is a big focus on the constraints of scope, time, and cost. But how is your team performing? If you have a core team you work with all the time, you may oversee their performance reviews. On the team level, it is important to keep an eye on how they are performing as a team. We know they will go through the steps of forming to performing and we know that we must motivate, reward, recognize, train, mentor, and coach, but how is all of that going? Are your strategies working? Is your team responding? It’s never a bad idea to stop and take a pulse throughout the project to see how your team thinks they are performing and how you view the team’s performance. Coaching is necessary, and even if you are setting SMART goals, things on...