Management

Passing the PMP Exam is no easy task, but this book can make it a lot simpler. This book contains over 500 exam like questions, full-length mock exam, and exam tips.

Karl Wiegers  is Principal Consultant with Process Impact, a software development consulting and training company in Happy Valley, Oregon. Previously, he spent eighteen years at Kodak, where he held positions as a photographic research scientist, software developer, software manager, and software process and quality improvement leader. Karl received a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. Candase Hokanson  is a Business Architect and PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner at ArgonDigital, a software development, professional services, and training company based in Austin, Texas. Candase graduated from Rice University with a BS and MS in civil engineering and a BA in religious studies.

In the decade before the Covid-19 pandemic, change was coming so quickly and across so many vectors that most business leaders – so busy tackling one new challenge after another - missed the trendlines that would collide in the early months of 2020 and forever change their workforce and how they lead it for generations to come.

HEATHER E. M C GOWAN  (www.heathermcgowan.com) is an in-demand, internationally known speaker and Future of Work Strategist. She assists corporate clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in rethinking their business models, teams, and organizational structures to become resilient in changing markets. CHRIS SHIPLEY  (www.cshipley.com) spent thirty years entrenched in the technology industry as a journalist and technology analyst, observing and predicting business and social transformations brought about by digital innovation. She advises companies on positioning, business modeling, and innovation practices, and serves on the boards of several startups and advisory panels.

Ross Garland  has been working in the area of project, programme, and portfolio governance for nearly 20 years and has designed, implemented, or reviewed the governance on billions of dollars of investments. Ross has addressed governance arrangements in numerous sectors including health care, aviation, public transport and roads, education, infrastructure, utilities and ICT. His work has taken him to Australia, the UK, Middle East, and the USA. He has delivered white papers on P3 governance for the UK Cabinet Office and regularly presents to conferences.

Adrian Dooley is a widely recognised influential leader in project management who has presented at many prestigious industry events and often contributes to leading periodicals. The accessible, integrated project, programme and portfolio management framework that Adrian has built is the Praxis Framework.

Agnieszka, the co-author of this publication, is an educator, learning designer and e-learning specialist. She works in the mercurial environment of a university, where design thinking helps her to find solutions to complex problems with diverse teams. She is interested in exploring contexts for design and understanding users through research and prototyping. As lead author of the DTMethod, Rafal is a psychologist, trainer, designer and consultant.

David Moskowitz is the content architect of the DVMS Institute. In this role, he actively looks for and works with subject matter experts to develop relevant content for the institute. David started his formal career as an operating systems programmer and systems architect, before going on to look at different forms of systems and complexity while serving in the US Army. After his military service, he continued to apply a systems approach to his job, working on an anti-submarine warfare program for the US Department of Defense. By applying a whole-systems perspective, he addressed organizational and inter-personal issues and created a high-performing team.

Chris Lukassen  has been active in product management for 20+ years, and co-created Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced course. He currently trains product managers in Scrum, leadership, user experience, and metrics.  Robbin Schuurman  is a product leader, consultant, Professional Scrum Trainer, and leader of Xebia’s Product Management Academy. He supports organizations in digital, agile, and product transformations; and helps product owners grow customer impact, improve agility, and shorten time-to-learn. Lukassen and Schuurman co-founded The Value Maximizers.

"My mission is to put academic accounting & finance knowledge, through technology, in the hands of businesspeople & investors." Axel Tracy has been educated in accounting and finance at two of Australia's leading universities: The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and The Australian National University. He is one of the top students at his current university (UTS) and is a member of the invitation-only Golden Key International Honours Society. Axel's GPA for accounting and finance subjects is 3.64 out of 4. From 2011 till recently he was employed by UTS to run PASS Sessions for the 2nd-year accounting subject Accounting Standards and Regulations.

KIM HELDMAN, PMP ® ,  is Senior Manager, IT/Chief Information Officer for the Regional Transportation District in Denver, Colorado, where she oversees an IT portfolio of projects that range from those small in scope and budget to multimillion-dollar, multiyear projects. Kim has more than 25 years of experience in IT project management, resource planning, budgeting, project prioritization, and strategic and tactical planning. Most of the real-world scenarios in this Study Guide are based on her actual experiences on the job. Visit her website at www.kimheldman.com.

Dr Gajanan Shirke , a hotel consultant, has an extensive experience over many years in the hospitality industry. His thirst for learning and aspiration to become a multi-faceted expert in the hotel industry helped him to rise from employment to becoming an independent professional in the hospitality sector. Since his last assignment as a General Manager at Kamat Hotels, he has become a renowned hotel consultant with a proven track record of developing, training and growing some of the best-known hotels, restaurants and fast-food joints in the Indian market. He was appointed as an expert consultant for The Eighth meeting of the Board of Studies for Hotel Management & Catering Technology. He is a visiting faculty at various Hotel Management Colleges and has trained over a thousand hospitality professionals. He has completed numerous pre and post opening hotel consultancies in India and overseas.