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Cynthia Snyder Stackpole
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Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The project management plan is the guiding document you'll use to manage, control, and close your project, and it's dynamic — it'll change throughout the project life cycle. The project management plan acts as an input to the initial planning process in each knowledge area.
You may ask yourself, "How can this be an input to the initial planning process if outputs from planning processes are inputs to the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Experienced project management professionals (PMPs) know that as they plan and execute projects, they'll encounter conflicts and differences of opinion. As you study for your PMP certification exam, become familiar with these six strategies to resolve conflict.
Strategy
Description
Situation
Confronting / Pro
Article / Updated 04-11-2017
Modern quality management is something you should have a handle on for the PMP Certification Exam. It focuses on customer satisfaction, which is generally defined as conformance to requirements and fitness for use. In other words, the product, process, and project meet the requirements, and the end result is used and useful.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Once you reach this point, your risk register should be updated with a prioritized list of risks. The PMP Certification Exam will ask questions about risk response. During the process of planning risk responses, you will determine the most appropriate responses to risks and assign an accountable person to manage each risk.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
You will need to know how to perform a qualitative risk analysis for the PMP Certification Exam. If you did a thorough job identifying and documenting risks, you will have quite an intimidating list of things that could go wrong. Many people think, “Why bother? I don’t have time to address all these. If I did, I wouldn’t have time to manage the project.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Managing the project team is one of the most difficult parts of being a project manager. Familiarize yourself with some basics for the PMP Certification Exam about different options for overseeing your team members.
Influence
Influence is the ability to compel people to behave or think in a certain way. Because project managers often don’t have a lot of power or authority, they often need to use their influence.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Because procurements deal with contractual relationships, it’s important for PMP Certification Exam purposes that you have a general grasp on contracts. Review the following basics to prepare for the exam.
Agreements. Any document or communication that defines the initial intentions of a project. This can take the form of a contract, memorandum of understanding (MOU), letters of agreement, verbal agreements, e-mail, and so on.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Task Outlines allow you to focus on different levels of detail Project 2013. With the invention of computer outlining, the capability to focus on only certain portions of an outline comes into its own, because you can easily open and close an outline to show or hide different levels of information — or entire sections of your outline.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
A maxim of project management says that things change: Tasks that you thought you could complete early can’t happen yet because money, people, or materials are in short supply. Or a task that you thought you couldn’t start until next July gets bumped up in priority when your customer changes his mind (again) about deliverables.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
When you're ready to take the PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification exam, expect to see up to ten questions dealing with network diagrams, precedence diagramming, and scheduling issues. Here are some PMP details you need to know:
FS = Finish-to-start
FF = Finish-to-finish
SS = Start-to-start
SF = Start-to-finish
Lead = The amount of time an activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity
Lag = The amount of time a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity
A mandatory dependency is based on the nature of the work.