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PMP® is just the first step

PMP® is just the first step

…or another story of success.
Have you learned about the “Pyramid of Needs” by Maslow?  The last step is the stage of self actualization.
For 17 years I was working for a global player.  The last seven years I collected a lot of experience in international project work,  have setup a PMO and installed a project management [...] Read more »

Avoid the Same Old Mistakes by Focusing on Lessons Learned

Avoid the Same Old Mistakes by Focusing on Lessons Learned

It’s said there are no new project management sins, just old ones repeated. It’s also said that we don’t learn the lessons from past projects and this must be true, otherwise why would we keep making the same old mistakes? Read more »

Becoming a PMP is not as hard (or easy) as it seems!

Becoming a PMP is not as hard (or easy) as it seems!

Karine Simard discusses the process of becoming a PMP….the easy parts and the hard parts. If you are not PMP certified yet, be sure to check this out! Read more »

PMI Global Congress 2008 Debrief

PMI Global Congress 2008 Debrief

I’m back from Denver and would like to share some highlights with you about the event and the PMI New Media Council that I’m now a part of. Read more »

Learning Project Management

Learning Project Management

Why are you studying project management? Why get a certification or degree? We hope you are doing it for the right reasons, in the right way. A recounting of experience and other thoughts from Craig Brown on learning project management. Read more »

Last year there were 700

Last year there were 700

You may or may not know about the PMI which is the largest project management professional body in the world.
(If you don’t know about it, take a few hours and go visit their website at PMI.org and in particular get your hands on their document “A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge.”)
The PMI [...] Read more »

Updates to the Best PMP Prep Around

Updates to the Best PMP Prep Around

You may already know that I purchased the Project Management PrepCast™ shortly after it was released last year by Cornelius Fitchner, the host of the Project Management Podcast. I enjoy the product immensely, as audio is a good format for me to learn. The focus is on understanding the concepts internally, so that you know this stuff instead of rote memorization. There are several updates that have been made since I first became a customer and wrote about it, and I would like to share those with you now. Read more »

The Scope Baseline

I’m studying for the PMP exam, so you may be getting some PMI-isms coming your way for a little while.
I’m using the PMPrepcast to study, and I actually found one point to disagree with Cornelius Fitchner on today! (That doesn’t usually happen!)

In the Scope Control podcast, he talks about the “updates to the scope [...] Read more »

PMP Experience Log

I’m getting ready to take the PMP in a little while, and so I’ve recently gone through the exercise of documenting all of my PM experience to meet the requirements for the PMP application. There are several helpful websites and templates that I found. I looked at a few of them, and ended up creating [...] Read more »

PM PrepCast Giveaway

Cornelius Fichtner, PMP from the The Project Management PrepCast™ and the The Project Management Podcast™ has graciously offered up a free subscription for me to give away. I am a subscriber to the PrepCast, and it is a great value. I wrote a testimonial here. Here’s how to win.
You have until November [...] Read more »