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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. They all feature on PMI’s exam reference materials list. Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn).

PMI 195
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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. References below. .

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A well-implemented PMO can transform your project delivery process , ensuring that every project is set up for success from the start. It is a focal point for project oversight, resource management, and decision support, providing the organizational structure used to manage people, processes, and tools in project execution.

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Different Project Management Terms Beginners Should Know

ProProfs Project Management

You winged the entire project execution process, and now the theory of it all is taking a toll on you. . It refers to a set of methodologies utilized to meet the ever-changing client requirements. This refers to the various schedules and costs defined at the start of a project. Performance Measurement Baseline.

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Invoking "Laws" Without a Domain or Context

Herding Cats

Newton's Law(s), there are three of them: First law: When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a net force. The increase in entropy accounts for the irreversibility of natural processes, and the asymmetry between future and past.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk. References . [1]

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.