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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Alternatively, choose books that fill in your gaps.

PMI 195
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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Note: This article was put together before the PMBOK® Guide – 7 th edition was published so the information in it is drawn from publicly available information about what is going to be in the book. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

Logistics 511
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Lost in Communication and Collaboration — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (2)

Scrum.org

This is the second of three articles analyzing the 183 anti-patterns from the upcoming Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book. The third article will address failures and breakdowns in planning, process, collaboration, and alignment within the Scrum framework. ? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ?

SCRUM 180
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Wilo's Law and Mature Communications Processes

Herding Cats

To make some conjecture that some process will fix the problem - Estimates are the smell of dysfunction and NOT Estimating will fix that dysfunction - is naive at best and willfully ignorant of Root Cause Analysis at worse. Read a book on good writing. Avoid Verbal Orders is a critical process in any critical situation.

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Control partners should have skin in the game!

Kiron Bondale

I finally completed reading Nassim Taleb ‘s book Skin in the Game which I had written about in a recent article. Introduce performance measures and incentives for control staff which are tied to the impacts created by their work as opposed to just the completion of this work.

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Value Innovation Strategy For Strategic Project Managers

The Strategic Project Manager

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their book “ Blue Ocean Strategy.” The strategy canvas helps in understanding the current state of competition and guides the process of value innovation by highlighting areas where the company can differentiate itself while creating new value for customers.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

In this domain, we are guided by credible results using principles, processes, and procedures to increase the probability of program success. Figure 1 - Planned Estimates versus Actual Performance from [1]. What processes are in place to execute according to plan? Herding Cats: Probabilistic Cost and Schedule Processes.