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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By : J. Ashley Hunt
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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

The Manage Quality process

As we are now executing project work, we need to make sure that the quality management plan we created is useful and is being followed to incorporate the organization's quality policies into the project and the result. Keep in mind that quality isn't linear; it is a cycle of Plan-Do-Check-Act, and therefore, you may not know your plan isn't working until you inspect the deliverables via quality control best practices. If a defect is discovered, we need to take a look at our process and find out where in the world we missed a step. Was it human error (way to go, Bill), or is our process somehow flawed, or both? Poor Bill didn't know he was supposed to move on to step six because it wasn't documented in the management plan. Sorry, Bill!

The Manage Quality process is the job of everyone, but it may be that your organization has a quality assurance department that has a role to play in the execution of the work and the quality of the...