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 [...]
Boost Your PMP Score: Learn The Keywords As Logical Pairs Many test-takers have trouble with the huge number of PMBOK terms: Some are opposites, some are synonyms, some are close, with subtle differences. This quick book helps you learn the many important terms, and be sure of the differences between them, so you can [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]