Anyhow, study of integration management knowledge area is completed. How many hours I’ve spent? - 8 hours.
There are just 6 processes in knowledge area; they have expert judgement as tools and technique. What so special to spend 8 hours in 3rd revision? I ask these questions my self frequently. See there is a distraction in my preparation, it’s not continuous study. Most importantly, you’ll be named as project manager, if you are perfect in integration management. If you don’t understand it correctly, study the inputs of project planning and understand what needs to be done in execution. One of the inputs in project planning is “outputs from other planning process groups”, if you just memorize this phrase, you’ll fail the exam with 100% accuracy. Not joke! If you really look for what it means, 8 hrs is very small amount of time that you could spent on this process. You understand it completely when you read it, if try to explain the meaning of it. Finally, Integration Management is meaning of project management. Project manager is nothing but integrator. There is highest probability to pass the exam, if you understand this knowledge area thoroughly. The correct time to read this chapter is in first revision of PMBOK, initially, just say “hi” and run out of this chapter quickly. Don’t waste much time in this chapter when you read it first time, because you can't completely understand it.
Okay, the important points to remember in this chapter
Third revision is really excellent for me. I thought for a moment if I’m perfect in this chapter, I don’t need to read other knowledge areas.
There are just 6 processes in knowledge area; they have expert judgement as tools and technique. What so special to spend 8 hours in 3rd revision? I ask these questions my self frequently. See there is a distraction in my preparation, it’s not continuous study. Most importantly, you’ll be named as project manager, if you are perfect in integration management. If you don’t understand it correctly, study the inputs of project planning and understand what needs to be done in execution. One of the inputs in project planning is “outputs from other planning process groups”, if you just memorize this phrase, you’ll fail the exam with 100% accuracy. Not joke! If you really look for what it means, 8 hrs is very small amount of time that you could spent on this process. You understand it completely when you read it, if try to explain the meaning of it. Finally, Integration Management is meaning of project management. Project manager is nothing but integrator. There is highest probability to pass the exam, if you understand this knowledge area thoroughly. The correct time to read this chapter is in first revision of PMBOK, initially, just say “hi” and run out of this chapter quickly. Don’t waste much time in this chapter when you read it first time, because you can't completely understand it.
Okay, the important points to remember in this chapter
- Understand the project charter
- Understand the stake holders
- Go through all knowledge areas in the planning process group and remember in which order they occur. RITA will help you best in this regard.
- Understand how do you execute project management plans
- Why PMP is important?
- In my practice, I’ve done following things
- Created different business scenarios with achievable objects
- Created project charter based on my business scenarios as a sponsor
- Prepared PMP based on the requirements
- Reconciled PMBOK based PMP with the PMPs actually that I’ve worked on. Fill-in the gaps in my knowledge
- Identified the project manager
- Assigned the responsibility to the project manager
- Turned myself as a project manager to plan for the sponsor mentioned objectives
- Wrote drafts for all the project management plans
- Understand what I need to update in documents and what I need to update in PMP. It’s very important step.
- Imagined the team-building activities and reconciled this practice with what we’ve done in the actual projects
- Executed PMP with imaginary effects
- Monitored and controlled all project management activities by having some samples in mind with my experience.
- Closed the procurement and project management activities with some sample scenarios
Third revision is really excellent for me. I thought for a moment if I’m perfect in this chapter, I don’t need to read other knowledge areas.
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