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Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam (Head First)
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Customer Reviews
Rating:  - A good book but not enough
Great book with very intuitive pictures and examples. Gets you started very well. Kind of like dummy series. But this book is not enough by itself to pass the exam. I used it as a first book to get started and realized that this book did not cover a lot of the information. It will be best to study this and then read another book that you like.
What's covered well:
Risk Management
Quality Management
What's not covered well:
Time Management ( especially Network Diagrams)
Professional Responsibility
Rating:  - Very Helpful for the PMP Exam
I use this book along with Dr. Sanghera's PMP Exam Quicklet tohelp my students pass the PMP exam. It is an interesting read and covers the topics pretty nicely. If you think some of the topics are not covered well, just pick up Andy Crow's PMP book or Dr. Paul Sanghera's PMP In Depth to compliment this book. Great non-boring style.
I recommend it.
Rating:  - Unreadable...
Warning: If this is your first Head First book, read the preamble section entitled "Who is this book for?", and a few of the sections that follow it. Ignoring that they almost dare you to read the book, they aren't kidding when they say it's different. It's different in that most books can be read, whereas this one cannot be.
At least they're honest and up front about it though. And truthfully I did buy it because I was not looking forward to reading about PMP. So I bought this book because it looked fun. It is not.
I read a lot of technical books, cover-to-cover, fairly quickly. This book is so incoherent and incomprehensible I can't imagine what kind of brain is actually compatible with it. It looks like it was written by and for people with AADHD (Adult Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder). The amount of information on each page is barely worth the paper and ink used to create the page. Furthermore, the exams are completely worthless. Most answers are easily guessed, and I scored perfect on one without even reading the preceding 3 sections it was based on (because as I said, I could not read it).
The book was also very expensive compared to other technical books, especially other O'Reilly technical books.
I gave this book, and the Head First format an honest shot. It's a one-star book, but I'll give it a bonus star just in case it's just me. If you're considering this book, I recommend you sit in a bookstore and truly try to read the first few chapters to see if you can make sense of any of it before you commit to the purchase. I'm sorry I threw out my receipt already, otherwise I'd return it. :-(
Rating:  - Great for visual learners
I'm a visual learner and I found this book to be very helpful in preparing for the exam. The situational questions in the book are relevant to the types of questions on the exam and the cross-word puzzles and exercises are helpful to remember the concepts. The FREE online practice test is very useful as well.
Rating: - If PMBOK makes you sleepy
Head first did again a fantastic job in rewriting a boring classic book like PMBOK.
Read this book first: it gives a very nice overview on PMP and is fun to read.
Only if you want to take the exam you should complete with PMBOK
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