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Your perfect companion to prepare for and pass the CompTIA Project+
PK0-004 exam Key Features Manage project changes and deliver
desired project outcomes Gain confidence in passing the PK0-004
exam with the help of practice questions Obtain insight from J.
Ashley Hunt, an accomplished subject matter expert Book
DescriptionThe CompTIA Project+ exam is designed for IT
professionals who want to improve their career trajectory by
gaining certification in project management specific to their
industry. This guide covers everything necessary to pass the
current iteration of the Project+ PK0-004 exam. The CompTIA
Project+ Certification Guide starts by covering project initiation
best practices, including an understanding of organizational
structures, team roles, and responsibilities. You'll then study
best practices for developing a project charter and the scope of
work to produce deliverables necessary to obtain formal approval of
the end result. The ability to monitor your project work and make
changes as necessary to bring performance back in line with the
plan is the difference between a successful and unsuccessful
project. The concluding chapters of the book provide best practices
to help keep an eye on your projects and close them out
successfully. The guide also includes practice questions created to
mirror the exam experience and help solidify your understanding of
core project management concepts. By the end of this book, you will
be able to develop creative solutions for complex issues faced in
project management. What you will learn Develop a project charter
and define team roles and responsibilities Plan the project scope,
schedule, budget, and risks Process change requests and work with
procurement documents Close a formal project or phase and get an
overview of Agile Project Management principles Create a work
breakdown structure (WBS) and dictionary Discover best practices
for identifying, analyzing, and responding to risk Gain important
exam information and discover the next steps Who this book is
forThe CompTIA Project+ Certification Guide is for entry-level
project managers who are looking for a common language and best
practices in the IT project management space as well as a
certification to excel in their career.
Plan, track, and release great software Key Features Learn to
create reports and dashboard for effective project management
Implement your development strategy in JIRA. Practices to help you
manage the issues in the development team Book DescriptionAs teams
scale in size, project management can get very complicated. One of
the best tools to deal with this kind of problem is JIRA. This book
will start by organizing your project requirements and the
principles of Agile development to get you started. You will then
be introduced to set up a JIRA account and the JIRA ecosystem to
help you implement a dashboard for your team's work and issues. You
will learn how to manage any issues and bugs that might emerge in
the development stage. Going ahead, the book will help you build
reports and use them to plan the releases based on the study of the
reports. Towards the end, you will come across working with the
gathered data and create a dashboard that helps you track the
project's development. What you will learn Create your first
project (and manage existing projects) in JIRA Manage your board
view and backlogs in JIRA Run a Scrum Sprint project in JIRA Create
reports (including topic-based reports) Forecast using versions
Search for issues with JIRA Query Language (JQL) Execute bulk
changes to issues Create custom filters, dashboards, and widgets
Create epics, stories, bugs, and tasks Who this book is forThis
book is for administrators who wants to apply the Agile approach to
managing the issues, bugs, and releases in their software
development projects using JIRA.
Leverage Jira's powerful task management and workflow features to
better manage your business processes Key Features The book covers
all major applications of Jira, which are Jira Software, Jira Core,
Jira Service Desk. Configure project workflows and the fields that
will be used in the project with the help of Jira's features Create
tickets for issues and manage your projects using the Jira software
Book DescriptionJira is an issue tracker and project management
system. With their latest release, the Jira team has now expanded
their user base to agile teams as well as business teams. This book
provides a comprehensive explanation covering all major components
of Jira, including Jira Software, Jira Core, and Jira Service Desk.
This book starts with an introduction to Jira's unique features and
how it can be used as an issue-tracking tool. It will then teach
you about how a new project is created by a Jira administrator,
what responsibilities there are, and using correct and relevant
schemes in your project. You will then learn how to configure
project workflows and fields for project screens. You will
understand the various permissions used in projects and the
importance of project roles in Jira. Then, the book talks about the
concepts of versions acting as milestones and using components when
handling issues in your projects. It will then focus on analysing
data using built-in reports and creating dashboards in Jira. At the
end, it will discuss various best practices for users as well as
project managers or project administrators. What you will learn
Implement Jira as a project administrator or project manager Get
familiar with various functionalities of Jira Configure projects
and boards in your organisation's Jira instance Understand how and
when to use components and versions in your projects Manage project
configurations and Jira schemes Learn the best practices to manage
your Jira instance Who this book is forThis book will be especially
useful for project managers but it's also intended for other Jira
users, including developers, and any other industry besides
software development, who would like to use Jira for project
management.
Learn best practices for testing with Jira and model industry
workflows that can be used during the software development
lifecycle Key Features Integrate Jira with test management tools
such as Zephyr, Test Management, and SynapseRT Understand test case
management, traceability, and test execution with reports Implement
continuous integration using Jira, Jenkins, and automated testing
tools Book DescriptionHands-On Test Management with Jira begins by
introducing you to the basic concepts of Jira and takes you through
real-world software testing processes followed by various
organizations. As you progress through the chapters, the book
explores and compares the three most popular Jira plugins-Zephyr,
Test Management, and synapseRT. With this book, you'll gain a
practical understanding of test management processes using Jira.
You'll learn how to create and manage projects, create Jira tickets
to manage customer requirements, and track Jira tickets. You'll
also understand how to develop test plans, test cases, and test
suites, and create defects and requirement traceability matrices,
as well as generating reports in Jira. Toward the end, you'll
understand how Jira can help the SQA teams to use the DevOps
pipeline for automating execution and managing test cases. You'll
get to grips with configuring Jira with Jenkins to execute
automated test cases in Selenium. By the end of this book, you'll
have gained a clear understanding of how to model and implement
test management processes using Jira. What you will learn
Understand QMS to effectively implement quality systems in your
organization Explore a business-driven structured approach to Test
Management using TMap NEXT Implement different aspects of test
planning, test strategy, and test execution Organize and manage
Agile projects in Scrum and Kanban Uncover Jira plugins available
in the Atlassian Marketplace for testing and project management
Configure a DevOps pipeline for continuous integration using Jira
with Jenkins Who this book is forIf you're a quality assurance
professional, software project manager, or test manager interested
in learning test management best practices in your team or
organization, this book is for you. Prior knowledge of test
management and Jenkins will be beneficial in understanding the
concepts covered in this book.
This book is a highly accessible guide to being a project manager
(PM), particularly a project manager working within an IT field.
The role is set out with reference to required skills, competencies
and responsibilities. Tools, methods and techniques for project
managers are covered, including Agile approaches; risk, issue and
change management processes; best practices for managing
stakeholders and financial management.
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