Control Charts are more complicated than most other tools asked about on the PMP Exam, and they tend to give students some trouble. Here are the 3 most frequently-asked questions my students always have about this tool. Q1. Why are there 2 sets of limits on Control Charts? In the diagram above you [...]
PMP students often are puzzled at first by WPD vs. WPI vs. WPR. Part of the confusion is that the 3 Earned Value Management terms sound very similar: Work Performance Data, Work Performance Info, Work Performance Reports. Also, the order of the knowledge areas implies that WPR comes first of [...]
PMP TEST TIPS FREE FLOAT vs. TOTAL FLOAT FREE FLOAT is a topic that students always have some trouble with in class, because it sounds like Total Float, but is different. Here's the skinny for the PMP Test. Free float is simply how much time there is between an activity and its successor activity. [...]
The FREE PLAYBACK is now available of Mike Griffiths' webinar from Wednesday, April 12, on how to use his site to prepare for the PMP Exam. Project Management Illustrated URL: https://peakbusiness.org/pdu-library PASSWORD: PeakPDU0922 If you already have your PMP / CAPM / PMI-ACP, you [...]
Data Literacy For PMs In The Age of AI https://www.project-management-podcast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-details/935-episode-485-data-literacy-in-the-ai-age PM Podcast Host Cornelius Fichtner interviews Marcus Glowasz about his book: Leading Projects With Data: Overcome Behavioral And Cultural Barriers To Unlock The Hidden Value Of Data In Projects You might also like to see my book: The Project Management Answer Book, 2nd Edition [...]
1) 12 Podcasts from Cornelius Fichtner that can ALL help you boost your PMP score (Free) Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, CSM, President & Founder of OSP Int'l Part 1: The PMI/PMP Mindset Part 2: The Agile Mindset Part 3: The Exam-Taking Mindset The Agile Manifesto Episode #477 - Project [...]
My parents were from Poland, and both were almost the only survivors in their families from the Holocaust in WW II. When Sarah Elkins, coach and author of the book: Your Stories Don’t Define You: How You Tell Them Will, asked me to do an interview, my first thought was that she wanted to [...]
Here is the link to my new Project Management Podcast Episode #460, where I was interviewed by Cornelius Fichtner (via StreamYard) about my new Kindle work-book: Boost Your PMP Score: Learn The Keywords In Sets. The book shares my classroom activity that has helped a great many of my students pass their PMP Exam: Reviewing [...]
This article is valuable for everyone considering the PMI-ACP certification. It was a group effort led by the PM Prepcast Team. The article includes 7 sections on the 7 Agile Domains, each written by a different ACP (my section was Domain II: Value-Driven Delivery). Article Link: PMI-ACP(R) Exam Outline Explained by Agile Certified Practitioners 7 DOMAINS [...]
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. [...]