description: 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 new edition of the best-selling PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guid e covers the 2005 updates to both the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and the PMP exam. Author Kim Heldman presents the material in a clear and accessible manner, taking you through the process groups in their logical order so you understand the parts and the whole equally well. KEY TOPICS INCLUDE: Project Initiation . Determining project goals, determining deliverables, determining process outputs, documenting constraints, documenting assumptions, defining strategies, producing formal documentation. Project Planning . Refining a project, creating a WBS, developing a resource management plan, determining resource requirements, defining budgets, refining time and costs estimates, establishing project controls, obtaining plan approval. Project Execution . Committing and implementing resources, managing and communicating progress, implementing quality assurance procedures. Project Control . Measuring performance, refining control links, taking corrective action, evaluating effectiveness of corrective action, ensuring plan compliance, reassessing control plans, responding to risk event triggers, monitor project activity. Project Closing . Obtaining acceptance of deliverables, documenting lessons learned, facilitating closure, preserving product records and tools, releasing resources. Professional Responsibility . Ensuring integrity, contributing to knowledge base, balancing stakeholder interests, respecting differences. (PMI, PMBOK, PMP and Project Management Professional are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
language: English
title: PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide
titlecomplete: PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide
genres: Business, Reference, Management
ratings_count: 265
publisher: Sybex