PMP rapid review
Assess your readiness for the updated PMP Exam—and quickly identify where you need to focus and practice. This practical, streamlined guide walks you through each exam task, providing "need to know" checklists, review questions, tips, and links to further study—all designed to help bolster...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol, Calif. :
Microsoft
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Rapid review PMP rapid review
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009729836806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- PMP Rapid Review
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Project Management Institute Professional Certification program
- Acknowledgments
- Support &
- feedback
- Errata
- We want to hear from you
- Stay in touch
- Preparing for the exam
- 1. Initiating the project
- Task 1.1: Perform project assessment based upon available information and meetings with the sponsor, customer, and other subject matter experts, in order to evaluate the feasibility of new products or services within the given assumptions and/or constraints.
- Exam need to know…
- Project selection
- Business case development
- Project selection criteria
- Project sponsor
- Customer
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 1.2: Define the high-level scope of the project based on the business and compliance requirements, in order to meet the customer's project expectations.
- Exam need to know…
- Statement of work
- Project and product scope
- Customer expectations
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 1.3: Perform key stakeholder analysis using brainstorming, interviewing, and other data-gathering techniques, in order to ensure expectation alignment and gain support for the project.
- Exam need to know…
- Stakeholders
- Stakeholder analysis
- Data-gathering techniques
- Stakeholder register
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 1.4: Identify and document high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints based on current environment, historical data, and/or expert judgment, in order to identify project limitations and propose an implementation approach.
- Exam need to know…
- High-level risks
- Assumptions and constraints
- Historical data
- Implementation approach
- Can you answer these questions?.
- Task 1.5: Develop the project charter by further gathering and analyzing stakeholder requirements, in order to document project scope, milestones, and deliverables.
- Exam need to know…
- Project charter
- Stakeholder requirements
- Milestone
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 1.6: Obtain approval for the project charter from the sponsor and customer (if required), in order to formalize the authority assigned to the project manager and gain commitment and acceptance for the project.
- Exam need to know…
- Project charter approval
- Project manager authority
- Can you answer these questions?
- Answers
- Task 1.1: Perform project assessment based upon available information and meetings with the sponsor, customer, and other subject matter experts, in order to evaluate the feasibility of new products or services within the given assumptions and/or constraints.
- Task 1.2: Define the high-level scope of the project based on the business and compliance requirements, in order to meet the customer's project expectations.
- Task 1.3: Perform key stakeholder analysis using brainstorming, interviewing, and other data-gathering techniques, in order to ensure expectation alignment and gain support for the project.
- Task 1.4: Identify and document high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints based on current environment, historical data, and/or expert judgment, in order to identify project limitations and propose an implementation approach.
- Task 1.5: Develop the project charter by further gathering and analyzing stakeholder requirements, in order to document project scope, milestones, and deliverables.
- Task 1.6: Obtain approval for the project charter from the sponsor and customer (if required), in order to formalize the authority assigned to the project manager and gain commitment and acceptance for the project.
- 2. Planning the project
- Task 1: Assess detailed project requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders based on the project charter, lessons learned from previous projects, and the use of requirement gathering techniques (e.g., planning sessions, brainstorming, focus groups), in order to establish the project deliverables.
- Exam need to know…
- Scope management plan
- Requirements management plan
- Stakeholder management plan
- Stakeholder register
- Requirements gathering tools
- Requirements documentation
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 2: Create the work breakdown structure with the team by deconstructing the scope, in order to manage the scope of the project.
- Exam need to know…
- Scope management plan
- Project scope statement
- Requirements documentation
- Decomposition
- WBS
- WBS dictionary
- Scope baseline
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 3: Develop a budget plan based on the project scope using estimating techniques, in order to manage project cost.
- Exam need to know…
- Cost management plan
- Human resource management plan
- Scope baseline
- Project schedule
- Risk register
- Cost estimating techniques
- Reserve analysis
- Cost of quality
- Project management software
- Vendor bid analysis
- Activity cost estimates
- Basis of estimates
- Agreements
- Resource calendars
- Funding limit reconciliation
- Cost baseline
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 4: Develop project schedule based on the project timeline, scope, and resource plan, in order to manage timely completion of the project.
- Exam need to know…
- Schedule management plan
- Defining activities
- Sequencing activities
- Estimating activity resources
- Estimating activity durations
- Critical path method
- Critical chain method
- Resource leveling.
- Schedule compression
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 5: Develop a human resource management plan by defining the roles and responsibilities of the project team members in order to create an effective project organization structure and provide guidance regarding how resources will be utilized and managed.
- Exam need to know…
- Human resource management plan
- Staffing management plan
- Roles and responsibilities
- Interpersonal skills
- Ethics and professional conduct
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 6: Develop a communication plan based on the project organization structure and external stakeholder requirements, in order to manage the flow of project information.
- Exam need to know…
- Communications management plan
- Stakeholder management plan
- Communications requirements analysis
- Communications models
- Communications methods
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 7: Develop a procurement plan based on the project scope and schedule, in order to ensure that the required project resources will be available.
- Exam need to know…
- Procurement management plan
- Contract types
- Procurement statement of work
- Procurement documents
- Make-or-buy decisions
- Source selection criteria
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 8: Develop a quality management plan based on the project scope and requirements, in order to prevent the appearance of defects and reduce the cost of quality.
- Exam need to know…
- Quality management plan
- Process improvement plan
- Quality metrics and checklists
- Seven basic quality tools
- Benchmarking
- Design of experiments
- Statistical sampling
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 9: Develop the change management plan by defining how changes will be handled, in order to track and manage changes.
- Exam need to know…
- Change management plan.
- Change control meetings
- Change control board
- Delegated authority
- Change log
- Configuration management system
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 10: Plan risk management by developing a risk management plan, and identifying, analyzing, and prior to rising project risks in the risk register and defining risk response strategies, in order to manage uncertainty throughout the project life cycle.
- Exam need to know…
- Risk management plan
- Risk identification
- Qualitative risk analysis
- Quantitative risk analysis
- Risk response planning
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 11: Present the project plan to the key stakeholders (if required), in order to obtain approval to execute the project.
- Exam need to know…
- Key stakeholders
- Project life cycle
- Can you answer these questions?
- Task 12: Conduct a kick-off meeting with all stakeholders, in order to announce the start of the project, to indicate the project milestones, and share other relevant information.
- Exam need to know…
- Kick-off meeting
- Can you answer these questions?
- Answers
- Task 1: Assess detailed project requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders based on the project charter, lessons learned from previous projects, and the use of requirement gathering techniques (e.g., planning sessions, brainstorming, focus groups), in order to establish the project deliverables.
- Task 2: Create the work breakdown structure with the team by deconstructing the scope, in order to manage the scope of the project.
- Task 3: Develop a budget plan based on the project scope using estimating techniques, in order to manage project cost.
- Task 4: Develop a project schedule based on the project timeline, scope, and resource plan, in order to manage timely completion of the project.
- Task 5: Develop a human resource management plan by defining the roles and responsibilities of the project team members in order to create an effective project organization structure and provide guidance regarding how resources will be utilized and managed.
