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June 22nd, 2010 |
 Category: Certification |  Leave a comment Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. Today’s question: Question: What do studying for the PMP exam and and studying Algebra have in common? Answer: You uttered the phrase, “Will I ever use this in real life?!” Yes, you did. Don’t deny it. So go apologize to your teenager right now, because when he asked that question last week about Algebra (with a sufficient [...] [...] May 13th, 2010 |
Category: Certification | One comment Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. I’ve recently spent a little time with PM Prepcast. It’s an impressive package. Here are some quick notes for you. Installation / Access I was surprised to see that the PM Prepcast is delivered the same way Cornelius delivers his Podcast. I don’t know why I was surprised by that, but I was. It’s a remarkably smooth [...] [...] May 4th, 2010 |
Category: Certification, General | Leave a comment Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. Yesterday, I submitted the last PDUs I needed for the 3-year cycle and was able to renew my certification early. Here’s how I did it, and some additional ideas. PDU Overview PDUs are Professional Development Units. For PMI, 1 PDU = 1 hour of PM training or study.Whether or not you need or will benefit from pursuing [...] [...] April 6th, 2010 |
Category: Certification | 4 comments Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. I’m preparing to review Cornelius Fichtner’s PMP exam preparation package called “PM PrepCast.” Cornelius runs the web site, http://www.project-management-podcast.com/. I’ll be writing soon about my impressions and how I’d such a package fitting in one’s PMP exam prep, comparing it to my classroom prep experience, and musing about its use for the environment that I [...] [...] January 16th, 2010 | Tags: affiliate |
Category: Certification, Reading | Leave a comment Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. OK, I promised you another story on self-interest. Here you go. Ethics — c’mon, keep reading Let’s start with discussion ethics and those pesky ethics statements. Some whine about it, and I’ll concede that ethics statements are usually way over-though and over-stated, and even if you agree with them, you still often end up rolling your eyes [...] [...] January 14th, 2010 | Tags: affiliate |
Category: Certification | Leave a comment Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. I see others in the #pmot community on Twitter also talking / asking about the benefits of PMP certification (see PMI.org for more info on the PMP). Threads are taking both the career angle and the project success angle. Both are interesting and valid threads. Recently I had a follow project manager in my organization ask [...] [...] December 19th, 2009 | Tags: Certification |
Category: Certification | 8 comments Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. New project managers, or project managers who’ve just discovered the possibility, sometimes wonder whether they should get certified. The answer is a matter of opinion. Here’s mine. Why Certify? I believe that there are 2 primary reasons to explore the question of certification: personal gain and professional gain.Your own reasons are likely a mix and balance of [...] [...] December 17th, 2009 | Tags: Certification |
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