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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By : J. Ashley Hunt
Book Image

Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By: J. Ashley Hunt

Overview of this book

One of the five most prestigious certifications in the world, the PMP® exam is said to be the most difficult non-technical certification exam. With this exam guide, you'll be able to address the challenges in learning advanced project management concepts. This PMP study guide covers all of the 10 project management knowledge areas, 5 process groups, 49 processes, and aspects of the Agile Practice Guide that you need to tailor your projects. With this book, you will understand the best practices found in the sixth edition of the PMBOK® Guide and the newly updated exam content outline. Throughout the book, you'll learn exam objectives in the form of a project for better understanding and effective implementation of real-world project management tasks, helping you to not only prepare for the exam but also implement project management best practices. Finally, you'll get to grips with the entire application and testing processes in PMP® and discover numerous tips and techniques for passing the exam on your first attempt. By the end of this PMP® exam prep book, you'll have a solid understanding of everything you need to pass the PMP® certification exam, and be able to use this handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide to overcome challenges in project management.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Project Management and People
8
Section 2: Project Management Processes
17
Section 3: Revision
19
Chapter 16: Final Exam

Agile/adaptive environments – retrospectives

Continuous improvement works both on the product level and the team level throughout all Agile environments; therefore, the retrospective is an essential piece of continuous improvement and the best practice. I'm sure many of you have a lessons-learned meeting at the end of the project or phase. You might have noticed that it's a tad too late at that point to change anything in the past. It's more an opportunity to commiserate, complain, sigh, and possibly have bagels. Food is an essential aspect of meetings, by the way. In a way, that is what a retrospective is, a lessons-learned meeting, with bagels more often than not. A retrospective is an opportunity for the team to spend time checking themselves before they wreck themselves in the next iteration. The team will inspect itself, the iteration, the way they executed the work, and create a plan for immediate improvements before the next iteration begins....