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 my PMI-ACP exam from home recently and I wanted to share a few tips from my experience, plus a few more from my PMP students testing from home during the quarantine. 1) "No Talking!” [...]
1) I just passed my PMI-ACP Certification Exam (Agile Certified Practitioner) The PMI-ACP is like the PMP For Agile. It will look good on your resume. And studying for it is a great way to learn a lot about the latest-and-greatest Agile tools. 2) Which Agile disciplines is the PMI-ACP based on? The ACP is based mainly on 4 of [...]
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 [...]
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!) [...]
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 my [...]
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 [...]
Some Recommended Events For PMs in the NYC area Person Place Thing: TENSIE WHELAN interviewed by RANDY COHEN! Tensie Whelen, Director, NYU Stern Center For Sustainable Business Tensie Whelan is Director of NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business, is also a Full-Time Professor, and also an outstanding presenter! Randy Cohen, host of [...]