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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

Data representation

One of the main tools and techniques for categorizing stakeholders falls under the category of data representation. When you can categorize your stakeholders, you can help the team build good relationships with the project stakeholders that have been identified and then iteratively update them.

The five main ways you should do this are as follows:

  • Power/interest grid, power/influence grid, or impact/influence grid
  • Stakeholder cube
  • Salience model
  • Directions of influence
  • Prioritization

Let's go over these one by one.

Power/interest grid, power/influence grid, or impact/influence grid

This particular technique has a lot of names and there's a minute difference between them. The reason you may choose one or the other could be based on your comfort level. If someone walks by your desk and sees that you have listed their power as low, that could result in some uncomfortable conversations, purely based on perception. For...