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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.

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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