Description

This book has been written to help those preparing for the Project Management
Professional Examination. It is intended to cover all of the
material that the Project Management Institute (PMI) considers important
enough to be included in the exam. This book has been revised to
reflect the changes in the Project Management Professional Examination put
into effect as of March 2002 and reflects the Guide to the Project Management
Body of Knowledge, 2000 edition.
I have been working in the field of project management for the past
twenty-five years and was managing projects long before that and long before
there was a methodology called project management. Once I became aware
of the work that PMI was doing in this area and started to consider project
management as a profession and a disciplined methodology, it became clear
to me what had gone wrong with some of my projects in the past.
From that point on I began applying the tools and techniques of project
management, and slowly the unification and completeness of the methodology
became clear. Project management works as a unified body of knowledge,
but all of the tools and techniques depend on one another to succeed.
You cannot do a good job of cost estimating if you have not developed a
good set of requirements and deliverables for the project any more than you
can produce a good schedule without taking the time necessary to develop
good estimates of the task durations.