474 pages, published in 2011

This book is the result of collaboration between Susan Weese and Terri Wagner. Susan authored the book. Terri reviewed text, contributed some practice exam questions, and lent her experience and expertise to the overall project. We hope that you, the reader, will enjoy reading this book as much as we enjoyed writing it. Susan Weese, CBAP®, PgMP, PMP, PRINCE2, MSPM Susan is a management consultant, curriculum designer, and professional speaker specializing in project management and requirements development process development and implementation for complex information technology projects. She started her work career as a software engineer, designing and developing complex mathematical algorithms for satellite and radar systems. Halfway through her work life, Susan crossed to the dark side of technology and became actively involved with managing programs, projects, large consulting organizations, and business processes. She is still having a blast and has never looked back. Susan founded Colorado-based Rhyming Planet, Inc., in 2000 to motivate, lead, and enable technical and business professionals to accomplish their program and project goals. Susan is also an adjunct faculty member at Colorado State University and the University of Phoenix, delivering courses on project management and the underlying competencies that make good managers into great managers. She is currently a PRINCE2 assessor for the APMG-US, auditing global training organizations and instructors developing and delivering certification courses in this project management methodology. Terri Wagner, MA, PMP, CSM Terri Wagner has managed multi-million dollar project management office portfolios for international consulting clients. She has also led teams of project managers, business analysts, process specialists, operational groups, and trainers in the planning, design, development, and deployment of internal system and operational enhancements, as well as client-based solution initiatives. She has been honored as a creative thinker with the ability to successfully apply technology for the advancement of internal and external operational efficiencies and quality. Terri has taught business analysis, project management, portfolio management, business leadership, business acumen, communication, applying emotional intelligence, critical thinking, team problem solving, leadership and interpersonal skills, negotiation skills, general management, earned value management, quality management, time and efficiency management along with other topics to state and governmental agencies, corporate clients, and at the graduate level in the university system, and has developed a coaching program for first line through executive level for a Fortune 500 company. Terri Wagner is the owner/managing member of Mentor Source, Inc., a Colorado-based coaching, consulting, and training company. She has delivered training, coaching, consulting, and project management in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Susan Weese, Terri Wagner