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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

The history of Agile and the Agile Manifesto

When most people think of Agile frameworks, they think of them as a recent development of something new or not often used. While that is far from the truth, I understand that Agile may seem like the flavor of the month, but it is here to stay.

The new 2021 PMP® exam content outline references Agile best practices. It may be tough to spot them at first because they blend so nicely with predictive best practices, but they are there. For example, in the domains of people and process, Agile best practices are right alongside the predictive best practices. The bolded items provided here are the tasks specific to Agile, but there is a lot of overlap, depending on whether you determine that a hybrid is better than a strict framework or life cycle. I may be getting ahead of myself, but it's good to know what you are referencing as you go along, and I wouldn't be surprised if many of you are hearing chit chat around the water cooler...