Certification Summary

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This chapter covered the fundamentals of project management and the expectations for the PMP examination. The Project Management Body of Knowledge is the wealth of information relevant to the project management profession and what will be covered in the PMP exam.

We discussed the five process groups of project management and how they interrelate throughout a project's life cycle. Overlaying these five process groups are the nine knowledge areas that a project manager must have expertise in to be successful. These nine knowledge areas comprise the project management framework.

All projects, large or small, have a triple constraint: time, cost, and quality. The project manager must work with stakeholders to balance these three constraints or the project will run out of time, cost more than what was planned, or produce poor quality deliverables-or combinations of the three.

Finally, we discussed how projects may exist within large entities called programs. Recall that programs are a collection of projects working toward a common goal. Programs are led by a Program Manager that the project manager reports to.

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