One of my Army students (Amana) who passed her PMP test on her first try came back to share some of her tips with our recent class. This was her biggest tip, which the class started calling: The Amana Rule: "Put more study-time into the areas where you have less experience on your projects." [...]
My final advice to a student about ITTOs (Before she passed her PMP Test) Sometimes a student asks me for some specific last-minute advice before they take their PMP Test. To help my readers, I'm going to be sharing notes in this space that I've written customized to my students' questions (before they passed their tests!) [...]
I just completed 90 hours of teaching by Zoom (March/April). Here are 5 tips I wanted to share which contributed to the success of these classes. TIP #1: Sharing Dog, Cat & Kid Photos From Your Students On Breaks! Gemma The Rottweiler Spending a lot of hours on Zoom with a group of students [...]
At NYU we upgraded our courses to Remote Delivery in March due to Covie-19, and I've already taught 20 hours of PMP Prep via Zoom. My next 3 PMP & Advanced PM courses will be given via Zoom, as follows: 1) PMP Prep class will be 5 Saturdays (July 18-Aug 25). 2) Earned Value Management [...]
The changes to the PMP exam originally scheduled for July 1, 2020 have been pushed back to January 2, 2021. This is due to the disruptions to training, testing and more caused by the ongoing Coronavirus threat. Blurb: "For all PMP candidates, we are extending access to the current PMP exam until 31 December 2020 and [...]
PMP Experts are all highly-recommending that Project Managers who want to get their PMP should test before the major changes coming to the exam starting July 1. Top 3 Reasons To Test By June 30: 1. Starting July 1, the test questions will be 50% Agile / 50% Waterfall. 2. Making it more difficult, [...]
Top 4 Reasons To Take The PMP Exam BEFORE The July 1 Test-Change Reason #1 - Starting Dec. 16, the PMP Exam will be 50% Agile Reason #2 - The new exam is based on a new ECO (Exam Content Outline) Reason #3 - The new exam will be based on 3 new Domains (NOT the current 5) The [...]
A great next step for PMPs is to add PMI's ACP Certification (Agile Certified Professional) to your resume. And here's a great tool to help you prepare: the PMI-ACP Exam Simulator, from OSP Intl. You can use the following Link & Gift Code: LINK: http://nanacast.com/vp/10004116/253305/ GIFT CODE: Jul19 (will lower the price at checkout from [...]
Today I got a 'Like' on my book's FB page from Astana, Kazakhstan (Country #65 - Thx, Baurjan!) :) My book, The Project Management Answer Book, is popular with International Readers because it's in very clear, concise English. It offers hands-on templates and helpful diagrams which make the PMI PMBOK easy. And it includes my best PMP [...]
Per PMI's new Announcement, the PMP Test will be changing effective Dec. 16, 2019. Q. Why the change? A. The New ECO (Exam Content Outline) Every few years PMI conducts a survey of Project Managers world-wide to measure how much their projects map to the tools & best practices in the PMBOK. After analyzing the results of the [...]