Comments on: Are You New to Project Management? http://pmstudent.com/are-you-new-to-project-management/ Helping new and aspiring project managers reach their career goals! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:27:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gsg http://pmstudent.com/are-you-new-to-project-management/#comment-8968 Gsg Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:24:08 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=1770#comment-8968 Please please please, get some experience before you do any training, PM is a very hands on field - work as an intern, do anything to get into a PMO and experiece PM from the trenches. Too many people come through with no experience but have qualifications. When the pressure is on, its the PM's with experience that handle it best. G Please please please, get some experience before you do any training, PM is a very hands on field – work as an intern, do anything to get into a PMO and experiece PM from the trenches. Too many people come through with no experience but have qualifications. When the pressure is on, its the PM’s with experience that handle it best.

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]]> By: Gsg http://pmstudent.com/are-you-new-to-project-management/#comment-24864 Gsg Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:24:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=1770#comment-24864 Please please please, get some experience before you do any training, PM is a very hands on field - work as an intern, do anything to get into a PMO and experiece PM from the trenches. Too many people come through with no experience but have qualifications. When the pressure is on, its the PM's with experience that handle it best. G Please please please, get some experience before you do any training, PM is a very hands on field – work as an intern, do anything to get into a PMO and experiece PM from the trenches. Too many people come through with no experience but have qualifications. When the pressure is on, its the PM’s with experience that handle it best.

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]]> By: Bill Duncan http://pmstudent.com/are-you-new-to-project-management/#comment-8883 Bill Duncan Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:28:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=1770#comment-8883 You are welcome to interpret the requirements any way you want to. You are NOT welcome to misquote them. You are NOT welcome to suggest that any one other than yourself has applied your personal interpretation. The requirements do NOT say "leading and directing project teams." They say "leading and directing project TASKS." While you may hold yourself to a higher standard, the fact of the matter is that many PMPs do NOT have experience as a project manager. And more than a few of those who do have experience as a PM have not been successful in that role. Please keep in mind that the PMP was originally designed as an ENTRY LEVEL certification. Even the requirement for "leading and directing tasks" was only added around 2000 or 2001, so anyone who obtained their PMP prior to that date only needed experience in "project management." Duncan You are welcome to interpret the requirements any way you want to. You are NOT welcome to misquote them. You are NOT welcome to suggest that any one other than yourself has applied your personal interpretation.

The requirements do NOT say “leading and directing project teams.” They say “leading and directing project TASKS.” While you may hold yourself to a higher standard, the fact of the matter is that many PMPs do NOT have experience as a project manager.

And more than a few of those who do have experience as a PM have not been successful in that role.

Please keep in mind that the PMP was originally designed as an ENTRY LEVEL certification. Even the requirement for “leading and directing tasks” was only added around 2000 or 2001, so anyone who obtained their PMP prior to that date only needed experience in “project management.”

Duncan

]]> By: Bill Duncan http://pmstudent.com/are-you-new-to-project-management/#comment-24863 Bill Duncan Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:28:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=1770#comment-24863 You are welcome to interpret the requirements any way you want to. You are NOT welcome to misquote them. You are NOT welcome to suggest that any one other than yourself has applied your personal interpretation. The requirements do NOT say "leading and directing project teams." They say "leading and directing project TASKS." While you may hold yourself to a higher standard, the fact of the matter is that many PMPs do NOT have experience as a project manager. And more than a few of those who do have experience as a PM have not been successful in that role. Please keep in mind that the PMP was originally designed as an ENTRY LEVEL certification. Even the requirement for "leading and directing tasks" was only added around 2000 or 2001, so anyone who obtained their PMP prior to that date only needed experience in "project management." Duncan You are welcome to interpret the requirements any way you want to. You are NOT welcome to misquote them. You are NOT welcome to suggest that any one other than yourself has applied your personal interpretation.

The requirements do NOT say “leading and directing project teams.” They say “leading and directing project TASKS.” While you may hold yourself to a higher standard, the fact of the matter is that many PMPs do NOT have experience as a project manager.

And more than a few of those who do have experience as a PM have not been successful in that role.

Please keep in mind that the PMP was originally designed as an ENTRY LEVEL certification. Even the requirement for “leading and directing tasks” was only added around 2000 or 2001, so anyone who obtained their PMP prior to that date only needed experience in “project management.”

Duncan

]]> By: Josh Nankivel http://pmstudent.com/are-you-new-to-project-management/#comment-8867 Josh Nankivel Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:13:25 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=1770#comment-8867 Leonardo, I believe Bill is wrong. See my responses below. :-)~ Leonardo, I believe Bill is wrong. See my responses below. :-) ~

]]> By: Josh Nankivel http://pmstudent.com/are-you-new-to-project-management/#comment-24862 Josh Nankivel Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:13:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=1770#comment-24862 Leonardo, I believe Bill is wrong. See my responses below. :-)~ Leonardo, I believe Bill is wrong. See my responses below. :-) ~

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