Whether you're a current project manager seeking to validate the skills and knowledge acquired through years of practical experience or a newcomer to the PM field looking to strengthen your resume, the PMP certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) provides you with the means to do so. This updated edition of the best-selling PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide was developed to help you prepare for this challenging exam, and includes additional study tools designed to reinforce understanding of critical subject areas.
Key Topics Include:
Project Initiation. Determining project goals, identifying constraints and assumptions, defining strategies, producing documentation.
Project Planning. Refining a project, creating a WBS, developing a resource management plan, establishing controls, obtaining approval.
Project Execution. Committing and implementing resources, managing and communicating progress, implementing quality assurance procedures.
Project Control. Measuring Performance, taking corrective action, ensuring compliance, reassessing control plans, responding to risk event triggers.
Project Closing. Documenting lessons learned, facilitating closure, preserving records and tools, releasing resources.
Professional Responsibility. Ensuring integrity, contributing to knowledge base, balancing stakeholder interests, respecting differences.
Featured on the CD
Sybex Test Engine
Test your knowledge with advanced testing software. Includes chapter review questions and two bonus exams!
Electronic Flashcards
Reinforce your understanding with hundreds of flashcards that can run off your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm handheld.
Also on the CD, youâll find the entire book in searchable and printable PDF.
About the Author
Kim Heldman, PMP, has over 12 years experience in IT project management. She is the Director of the IT Project Management Office for the Colorado Department of Revenue and is a member of the Denver chapter of PMI.
Categories:
- Test Preparation
- Professional
- PMP Exam
- Professional
Publisher : Sybex
Author : Heldman, Kim
Language : English
Edition : 2
Published :2004-04-15
Number Of Pages : 501
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0782143237
ISBN-13 : 9780782143232
Item weight : 2.05 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 7.3 in x 9.06 in
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