A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge  Sixth edition by Project Management Institute

 This book is very useful while preparing for the PMP exam but don't plan on reading it like a normal book. It is a *guide* and not a novel. After getting through the first three chapters, I found myself stumbling through Chapter 4 only because it went from one process to the other within integration management and not in real life order like this: 4.1 Develop Project Charter followed by 13.1 Identify Stakeholders. So, if you're not familiar with the *actual* order of the processes, you will get confused reading sequential chapters 4, then 5, then 6 and so on because real life project management isn't liner like this and I don't think the authors of the PMBOK meant for people to read it straight through. I'd suggest reading Chapter 1-3 first then stop. Read the Standards (Part 2 of the book towards the back) then stop. Now, go back through with an understanding of the real order of things and use Chapters 4-13 as a *guide* to refer back to as you understand and learn to apply all of the ITTOs, etc. outline in great detail in each process group.