Comments on: Becoming a PMP Professional is not as hard (or easy) as it seems! http://pmstudent.com/pmp-professional/ Helping new and aspiring project managers reach their career goals! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Josh Nankivel http://pmstudent.com/pmp-professional/#comment-12199 Josh Nankivel Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:08:17 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=989#comment-12199 Thank you for the comment Claude! I agree with your statements. It's not an easy exam, and you certainly can not just spend 35 hours with no previous knowledge of the PMBoK standard and expect to pass the test. With the 4th edition test, I think the PMI has stopped publishing the % score or what is actually required to pass? I'm not completely sure on the second part of that. Thank you for the comment Claude! I agree with your statements. It’s not an easy exam, and you certainly can not just spend 35 hours with no previous knowledge of the PMBoK standard and expect to pass the test.

With the 4th edition test, I think the PMI has stopped publishing the % score or what is actually required to pass? I’m not completely sure on the second part of that.

]]> By: Josh Nankivel http://pmstudent.com/pmp-professional/#comment-24465 Josh Nankivel Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:08:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=989#comment-24465 Thank you for the comment Claude! I agree with your statements. It's not an easy exam, and you certainly can not just spend 35 hours with no previous knowledge of the PMBoK standard and expect to pass the test. With the 4th edition test, I think the PMI has stopped publishing the % score or what is actually required to pass? I'm not completely sure on the second part of that. Thank you for the comment Claude! I agree with your statements. It’s not an easy exam, and you certainly can not just spend 35 hours with no previous knowledge of the PMBoK standard and expect to pass the test.

With the 4th edition test, I think the PMI has stopped publishing the % score or what is actually required to pass? I’m not completely sure on the second part of that.

]]> By: Claude Gauthier http://pmstudent.com/pmp-professional/#comment-12192 Claude Gauthier Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:28:01 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=989#comment-12192 First I would like to precise that I'm french-Canadian and have been chock when I read your comment. This is good in fact because it generates discussions. I am in preparation for the PMP and I want to underline that it is not only a preparation of 35hrs course and passing with 61%. PMI exam are VERY hard to pass. At many times, they test your capacity to manage your stress during exam as there are MANY tricky questions for that ( psychrometric). I manage projects for more then 4500hrs ( competency) and will spend more then 250 hrs to prepare for PMP ( knowledge). In other words, passing the PMP credential, is much more demanding then what you simply stated. I challenge you to pass the exam on firts try !! But I agree with Josh below, that it doesn't mean you are a good project manager even if you have a PMP...but still hard to get ! Sincerly, Claude Gauthier, Magog, Qc. First I would like to precise that I’m french-Canadian and have been chock when I read your comment. This is good in fact because it generates discussions.
I am in preparation for the PMP and I want to underline that it is not only a preparation of 35hrs course and passing with 61%. PMI exam are VERY hard to pass. At many times, they test your capacity to manage your stress during exam as there are MANY tricky questions for that ( psychrometric). I manage projects for more then 4500hrs ( competency) and will spend more then 250 hrs to prepare for PMP ( knowledge).
In other words, passing the PMP credential, is much more demanding then what you simply stated.
I challenge you to pass the exam on firts try !!

But I agree with Josh below, that it doesn’t mean you are a good project manager even if you have a PMP…but still hard to get !
Sincerly,
Claude Gauthier,
Magog, Qc.

]]> By: Claude Gauthier http://pmstudent.com/pmp-professional/#comment-24464 Claude Gauthier Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:28:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=989#comment-24464 First I would like to precise that I'm french-Canadian and have been chock when I read your comment. This is good in fact because it generates discussions. I am in preparation for the PMP and I want to underline that it is not only a preparation of 35hrs course and passing with 61%. PMI exam are VERY hard to pass. At many times, they test your capacity to manage your stress during exam as there are MANY tricky questions for that ( psychrometric). I manage projects for more then 4500hrs ( competency) and will spend more then 250 hrs to prepare for PMP ( knowledge). In other words, passing the PMP credential, is much more demanding then what you simply stated. I challenge you to pass the exam on firts try !! But I agree with Josh below, that it doesn't mean you are a good project manager even if you have a PMP...but still hard to get ! Sincerly, Claude Gauthier, Magog, Qc. First I would like to precise that I’m french-Canadian and have been chock when I read your comment. This is good in fact because it generates discussions.
I am in preparation for the PMP and I want to underline that it is not only a preparation of 35hrs course and passing with 61%. PMI exam are VERY hard to pass. At many times, they test your capacity to manage your stress during exam as there are MANY tricky questions for that ( psychrometric). I manage projects for more then 4500hrs ( competency) and will spend more then 250 hrs to prepare for PMP ( knowledge).
In other words, passing the PMP credential, is much more demanding then what you simply stated.
I challenge you to pass the exam on firts try !!

But I agree with Josh below, that it doesn’t mean you are a good project manager even if you have a PMP…but still hard to get !
Sincerly,
Claude Gauthier,
Magog, Qc.

]]> By: Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo http://pmstudent.com/pmp-professional/#comment-2915 Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:26:54 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=989#comment-2915 AMEN, Scott. I couldn't have said it any better myself. PMI has, IMPO over-sold the PMP as well as the fundamentals underlying project management. And not all is PMI's fault either. As a consultant, VERY few of our clients truly understand how project management fits into an on-going business and like so many fads before them, top management is grasping at project management to be the latest "flavor of the month" "solution" to bad management practices. If management continues to pick "Death March" projects then expects the project manager to magically turn them into successes, we will continue to "get what we always get". Keep on being willing to "tell it like it is"...... We need more people willing to tell the emperor he is naked..... BR, Dr. PDG, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia AMEN, Scott. I couldn’t have said it any better myself. PMI has, IMPO over-sold the PMP as well as the fundamentals underlying project management.

And not all is PMI’s fault either. As a consultant, VERY few of our clients truly understand how project management fits into an on-going business and like so many fads before them, top management is grasping at project management to be the latest “flavor of the month” “solution” to bad management practices.

If management continues to pick “Death March” projects then expects the project manager to magically turn them into successes, we will continue to “get what we always get”.

Keep on being willing to “tell it like it is”…… We need more people willing to tell the emperor he is naked…..

BR,
Dr. PDG, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

]]> By: Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo http://pmstudent.com/pmp-professional/#comment-24463 Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:26:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=989#comment-24463 AMEN, Scott. I couldn't have said it any better myself. PMI has, IMPO over-sold the PMP as well as the fundamentals underlying project management. And not all is PMI's fault either. As a consultant, VERY few of our clients truly understand how project management fits into an on-going business and like so many fads before them, top management is grasping at project management to be the latest "flavor of the month" "solution" to bad management practices. If management continues to pick "Death March" projects then expects the project manager to magically turn them into successes, we will continue to "get what we always get". Keep on being willing to "tell it like it is"...... We need more people willing to tell the emperor he is naked..... BR, Dr. PDG, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia AMEN, Scott. I couldn’t have said it any better myself. PMI has, IMPO over-sold the PMP as well as the fundamentals underlying project management.

And not all is PMI’s fault either. As a consultant, VERY few of our clients truly understand how project management fits into an on-going business and like so many fads before them, top management is grasping at project management to be the latest “flavor of the month” “solution” to bad management practices.

If management continues to pick “Death March” projects then expects the project manager to magically turn them into successes, we will continue to “get what we always get”.

Keep on being willing to “tell it like it is”…… We need more people willing to tell the emperor he is naked…..

BR,
Dr. PDG, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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