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 Scoping was really a hard one for me. I was used of saying "Yes" to everything as being a technical person, I felt its easy to do then why not. However I learned, there should be a line drawn somewhere to control endless expectations.... Saving Changes...
Abdul BariProject Manager| House of Consulting OfficeJeddah, Saudi Arabia
Project Risk Management and the questions regarding ethics. I found them quite tricky at times. Saving Changes...
No one chapter was most difficult, however I found Quality Management as a difficult chapter, not because of difficulty in content but because the content was insufficient and did not relate fully. There are several procedures in quality practice that were just not mentioned. There is scope to renovate this chapter Saving Changes...
Kinar MehtaSenior Business Systems Analyst| Intuit CanadaMississauga, Ontario, Canada
I did not find any knowledge area tough in its entirety, but I do find some topics which never seem to go down my brains:
