Prepare for the PMP certification exam in a unique and inspiring way with Head First PMP. The second edition of this book provides 100% coverage of the latest principles and certification objectives offered in The PMBOK® Guide, 4th edition, with a visually rich format is designed for the way your brain works. You’ll find a full-length sample exam included inside the book.
Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, Head First PMP offers you a multi-sensory experience that helps the material stick, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. You get a thorough and effective preparation guide with hundreds of practice questions and exam strategies, along with puzzles, games, problems, and exercises that make learning easy and entertaining.
More than just passing a test, a PMP certification means that you have the knowledge to solve most common project problems, but studying for a difficult four-hour exam on project management isn’t easy, even for experienced project managers. The book teaches underlying concepts so that you can understand the PMBOK principles and pass the certification exam with flying colors.
Head First PMP puts project management principles into context to help you understand, remember, and apply them — not just on the exam, but also on the job.
About the Author
Jennifer Greene, has spent the past 15 years or so building software for many different kinds of companies. She’s worked for small start-ups and some huge companies along the way. She’s built software test teams and helped lots of companies diagnose and deal with habitual process problems so that they could build better software. Since her start in software test and process definition, she’s branched out into development management and project management. She’s currently managing a big development team for a global media company and she’s managed just about every aspect of software development through her career.
Jennifer founded Stellman & Greene Consulting with Andrew Stellman in 2003, initially to serve the scientific and academic community. They have worked in a wide range of industries including finance, telecommunications, media, non-profit, entertainment, natural language processing, science and academia. They do speaking engagements, provide training on development practices, manage teams, and build software. Together, they’ve written two highly acclaimed books on project management (Head First PMP and Applied Software Project Management), Head First C#, and most recently just finished up Beautiful Teams.
For more information about Jennifer, Andrew Stellman, and their books, visit http://www.stellman-greene.com.
Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene are both veteran software engineers and project managers. They created Stellman & Greene Consulting in 2003, with a focus on project management, software development, management consulting, and software process improvement. Andrew and Jennifer have worked in a wide range of industries, including finance, telecommunications, media, non-profit, entertainment, natural language processing, science and academia.
Their first book, Applied Software Project Management, was published by O’Reilly Media in 2005 and has been widely praised by project managers, software engineers and academics. Their second book, Head First PMP, was called “the very best basic education and training book that I have read” by Dennis Bolles, the project manager and lead author of the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK® Guide. And their third book, Head First C#, is one of the most popular book for learning C#, Windows programming and object oriented programming and design. They regularly speak at schools, companies and professional organizations on project management, quality, software development and process improvement.
Book Details
- Paperback: 831 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 2 edition (August 4, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596801912
- ISBN-13: 978-0596801915
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