George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
Which is/was the most difficult PMBOK knowledge area for you to study?
1.Project Integration Management : the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups.
2.Project Scope management : the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
3.Project Time Management : the processes required to manage the timely completion of the project.
4.Project Cost Management : the processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, financing, funding, managing, and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
5.Project Quality Management : the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
6.Project Human Resource Management : the processes that organize, manage, and lead the project team.
7.Project Communications Management : the processes that are required to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and the ultimate disposition of project information.
8.Project Risk Management : the processes of conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and controlling risk on a project.
9.Project Procurement Management : the processes necessary to purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed from outside the project team. Processes in this area include Procurement Planning, Solicitation Planning, Solicitation, Source Selection, Contract Administration, and Contract Closeout.
10.Project Stakeholders Management : the processes required to identify all people or organizations impacted by the project, analyzing stakeholder expectations and impact on the project, and developing appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution. Saving Changes...
Project Procurement Management is the toughest one for me Saving Changes...
Paulo BedoyaIT Business Consultant| BiTSPremiumGuayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador
Hi, I think that Quality management area is most dificult for the relationships, tools, documents and requirements. Saving Changes...
Suresh KumarAssistant Vice President| Infinite Computers India LtdChennai, Tamilnadu, India
Project scope management Saving Changes...
Erik TorekhanovDeployment Coordinator, IT Projects| Suncor EnergyCalgary, Alberta, Canada
Project Qaulity Management was most difficult for me, mailnly because I was getting confused between Quality Assurance and Control Quality, took me some time to understand the difference between the two Saving Changes...
Ezz KhayyatSenior Software Engineer| Dar Al HandasahAmman, Jordan
For me it was / is #1.Project Integration Management Saving Changes...
Patricia HiteRegional Program Manager| Orange Business ServicesAvon, In, United States
To respond to the question - the 'hardest to study,' for me this was Risk Management. It's not that the material of the PMP was particularly in depth and difficult, it was making myself study it. Risk is something that we all take for granted that we know and understand because we deal with it everyday. So study it... paint drying comes to mind. But, it's important to have this piece down so you can build on the foundation. It's just sitting and focusing on it. And not filling in the blanks with your own thoughts and experiences because, it's not the PMI protocol. Saving Changes...
