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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

Planning stakeholder engagement

At this point in the stakeholder management knowledge area, you have already created the stakeholder register. Now, you will take that information, along with your plan for communications, and utilize both of those to craft an engagement plan. This process will be iterative because stakeholders come and go, and the ones that stay might change their engagement needs throughout the project. I'm sure you have experienced situations where you have an extremely supportive stakeholder at the beginning and they need very little in the way of engagement to keep them happy and communicate effectively. Then, a risk event occurs. Dun dun duh! Rut roh. Now that stakeholder becomes irritated and demanding. So, what do you do? Update how you engage with them. Evidently, something has gone sideways, and you'll need to adapt the plan accordingly. The goal of this process is to involve your stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, impacts, and interests...