To help everyone using my book to study for your PMP / CAPM, below is a Quick Guide to all the Figures, Diagrams, and Tables in my book: The Project Management Answer Book, 2nd Edition. FIGURES.PMAnswerBook.2nd.Edition.JeffFurman All are listed in the following format, and grouped by Knowledge Area, e.g. [...]
PMI provides a VERY valuable document for PMP Candidates: the PMP Exam Content Outline (ECO). URL: https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/certifications/project-management-professional-exam-outline.pdf On Pages 5 - 10 of the ECO, the "Tasks" Project Managers are expected to know for the test are broken out by domain. For example, as part of CLOSING (Domain 5 on page 10), here is the first task [...]
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." [...]
The OPT option (Online Proctored Test) is now available for 3 PMI certification exams: PMP, CAPM & PMI-ACP. I took an OPT exam just the other day (passed my PMI-ACP!) and I wanted to share a few tips from my experience, plus a few more from my PMP students, who have all been testing [...]
Cornelius Fichtner, President, OSP Int'l Timed & Learning Quizzes Instead of doing 200 Question Practice Exams, which is very tiring and can result in over-kill and burn-out, The PMP Exam Simulator from OSP Int'l offers a great feature called Timed & Learning Quizzes. This lets you select short quizzes of 10 or more questions (whatever [...]
Today I received a 'Like' on my book's FB page from Amman, Jordan (Country #66 - Thx, Rana!) :) 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 [...]
Today I received 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1) PMI NYC - Annual Business Meeting (Holiday Dinner) Mark Resch, PMP, LSSBB, ITIL Day/Date/Time: January 17, 2019 This event is always half-meeting/half-party! (Great venue, great speaker, great food) TOPIC: Relentless Engagement: Mission First, People Always Presenter: Marc Resch, PMP, LSSBB, ITIL Location: Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavillion (60 Washington Square Park South) Price: FREE FOR [...]