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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

You're reading from   Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional A study guide to mastering project management for the PMP® exam

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838989309
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashley Hunt Ashley Hunt
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Project Management and People
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the PMP® Exam FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2 :Introduction to Project Management 4. Chapter 3: Pre-Project Initiation 5. Chapter 4: Charters and Stakeholders 6. Chapter 5: Introduction to Agile Considerations 7. Chapter 6: Creating and Leading a Team 8. Section 2: Project Management Processes
9. Chapter 7: Scope Management 10. Chapter 8: Schedule and Cost Management 11. Chapter 9: Quality Management 12. Chapter 10: Resources and Communication Management 13. Chapter 11: Risk Management 14. Chapter 12: Procurement Management 15. Chapter 13: Stakeholder Engagement 16. Chapter 14: Integration Management 17. Section 3: Revision
18. Chapter 15: Next Steps and Study Tips 19. Chapter 16: Final Exam 20. Assessment 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Define activities

Remember when we discussed the work breakdown structure (WBS) and we reviewed how to decompose significant deliverables down to the work package level? Now, we will take those work packages and decompose them to the activity level. Define activities is the process where the WBS begins to influence the schedule but is still not a schedule. We will use the WBS to get to the activity level, and once that occurs, we will have an activity list and some milestones that will guide the creation of the actual schedule and the baseline. I realize that for the most part, I'm writing philosophy here. We are involved in the realm of easier said than done right now. This piece can be very time-consuming, especially if you have never created a schedule before or you are working on something new. For the sake of the exam, defining the activities process is pretty self-explanatory, meaning you don't need to know a whole lot about the process to answer questions because it...

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