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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

Scrum overview

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland first co-presented Scrum at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) conference in 1995 and were contributors to the Agile Manifesto 6 years later:

"A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value."

– Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

The framework is lightweight and very simple to understand. That is why many organizations embrace some or all the best practices. It sounds easy, but it's easier to talk about than it is to actually do it.

Scrum theory was founded or based upon empirical process control theory, or empiricism. The three pillars of the Scrum framework are transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

Transparency

Agile project management has a common theme of openness, as well as...