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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

Key concepts in communications management

The goal of planning for communications management in your projects is to ensure that we get the right information to the right people, at the right time, in the right format, and with the right impact. How we go about doing that can be either in the written form or the spoken form, either formally or informally using our tone of voice and facial expressions, via our body language through a variety of different media, and quite simply, in our choice of words.

The dimensions of communication can be effective or ineffective; our goal is to communicate as effectively as humanly possible, especially between diverse stakeholders. As a project manager, there are multiple dimensions and directions you will need to communicate.

Communication dimensions include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Internal
  • External
  • Formal
  • Informal
  • Hierarchical focus
  • Official
  • Unofficial
  • Written and oral

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