PMP<sup>®</sup>: Project Management Professional Study Guide, Deluxe Edition,9780782136029

PMP®: Project Management Professional Study Guide, Deluxe Edition

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Edition: Study Gui.
ISBN13: 9780782136029
ISBN10: 0782136028
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher(s): Sybex
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Summary

Whether you're a current project manager seeking to validate the skills and knowledge acquired through years of practical experience or a new-comer 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What Is a Project?
Chapter 2: Creating The Project Charter and Preliminary Scope Statement
Chapter 3: Creating the Scope Statement
Chapter 4: Creating the WBS and Communicating the Plan
Chapter 5: Risk Planning
Chapter 6: Resource Planning
Chapter 7: Creating the Project Schedule and Budget
Chapter 8: Developing the Project Team
Chapter 9: Measuring and Controlling Project Performance
Chapter 10: Monitoring and Controlling Change
Chapter 11: Monitoring and Closing Out the Project
Chapter 12: Professional Responsibility
Workbook Exercises
Chapter 1 Exercises
Exercise 1.1: Organizational Structure
Exercise 1.2: Project Management Office
Chapter 2 Exercises
Exercise 2.1: Justifying a Project—Project Selection Matrix
Exercise 2.2: Project Selection Methods—Financial Returns
Exercise 2.3: Project Initiation and the Project Charter
Chapter 3 Exercises
Exercise 3.1 Creating the Project Plan
Exercise 3.2 Creating a Scope Management Plan and Managing Scope Change
Chapter 4 Exercises
Exercise 4.1: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Exercise 4.2: Planning Communications with your Stakeholders
Exercise 4.3: Planning for Quality
Exercise 4.4: Quality Planning Tools
Exercise 4.5: Calculating the Cost of Quality
Chapter 5 Exercises
Exercise 5.1: Creating Your Risk Management Plan
Exercise 5.2: Identifying Risks
Exercise 5.3: Qualitative Risk Analysis
Exercise 5.4: Quantitative Analysis Tools and Techniques
Exercise 5.5: Quantitative Risk Analysis—Updating the Risk Impact/Probability Matrix
Exercise 5.6: Types of Risk Response Strategies
Exercise 5.7: Risk Responses
Chapter 6 Exercises
Exercise 6.1: Deciding on Contract Types
Exercise 6.2: Creating a Procurement Management Plan
Exercise 6.3: Creating a Contract Statement of Work (SOW)
Exercise 6.4: Evaluating and Selecting the Vendor
Exercise 6.5: Creating a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Exercise 6.6: Creating a Staffing Management Plan
Exercise 6.7: Activity Sequencing
Exercise 6.8: Activity Resource Estimating
Chapter 7 Exercises
Exercise 7.1: Estimating Duration Activity
Exercise 7.2: Calculating Critical Path
Exercise 7.3: Calculating PERT
Exercise 7.4: Duration Compression
Exercise 7.5: Creating Gantt Charts
Exercise 7.6: Ranges of Cost Estimates
Exercise 7.7: Cost Estimating
Exercise 7.8: Creating a Budget and Cost Baseline
Chapter 8 Exercises
Exercise 8.1: Directing and Managing Project Execution
Exercise 8.2: Acquire the Project Team
Exercise 8.3: Develop Project Team
Exercise 8.4: Communicating with the Team and Resolving Conflict
Exercise 8.5: Deciding on Information Distribution
Chapter 9 Exercises
Exercise 9.1: Creating the Contract
Exercise 9.2 : Perform Quality Assurance
Exercise 9.3: Understanding Your Stakeholders
Chapter 10 Exercises
Exercise 10.1: Change Control
Exercise 10.2: Performance Reporting, Including Earned Value Technique
Exercise 10.3: Controlling Cost Changes
Exercise 10.4: Controlling Schedule Changes
Chapter 11 Exercises
Exercise 11.1: Quality Control
Exercise 11.2: Closing a Project or Phase, including Contract Close
Chapter 12 Exercises
Exercise 12.1: Professional Responsibility

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