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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

Communications management planning

Having an effective communications management plan that suits your unique team, stakeholder, and customer is an integral part of making sure that how you distribute information is correct and that it works!

You'll see as we go through the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs that there are many things to consider in this process. That's why the communications management plan is considered to be one of the big three management plans. Communications management, quality management, and risk management plans appear to be the ones that are hit the hardest in the exam. In Figure 10.4, you will see a simple example of the sender/receiver communication model. The model provides a visual example of how a sender will transmit a message and how the receiver provides feedback. All messages have to travel through the noise of personal emotional states and consider cultural or personality biases. For instance, if you don't like someone, your...