Are you looking to certify PMP soon? If so, you may have landed on my blog before as I’ve written about my certification experience and various training and exam prep options that some of my colleagues and I have used. Among those options, one of my favorites is PM PrepCast by Cornelius Fichtner. As I’ve said [...] [...]
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Recently, we brought one of those aggressive PMP exam prep boot camps onsite to prepare roughly a dozen folks to take the PMP exam. Unfortnately, a handful of the attendees failed. And that makes me question the advisability of this exam prep approach. The boot camp style training is very up front about its approach. It’s [...] [...] Four of my colleagues passed the PMP exam today! All 4 participated in a boot camp training this week, then took the exam today. Now we have 5 PMPs in our immediate organization of <25 employees. I’ve scheduled a celebration session with the 5 of us. Soon, I’ll brief them on the PDU requirements and we [...] [...] Aren’t so many things really simpler than we think? Sometimes we spin up things to make them more complicated for ourselves than they really are. And sometimes, we buy into others’ stories of complication and accept it at face value. But I think that a lot of things are really simpler than we make them [...] [...]  Confused about how to track your PM hours for your PMP Exam application? Try some of these ideas. [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 |  One comment |  Affiliate DisclosureOK, 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 |
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