22nd October 2009
Jack Welch, former Chairman of General Electric, said "If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete."
The question is, "How can we as professional Project Managers achieve competitive advantage in the marketplace?"
We all owe it to ourse...
08th October 2009
Let's face it. IT Certifications are a key component of breaking into and maintaining an accelerating and successful career in the information technology field. Earning an IT certification can enable a professional to gain the critical skills needed to ...
06th October 2009
There are lots of strategies for preparing for exams, and PMP exam prep is not exception. However, more often than not, the strategy stressed is to learn prepare for the PMP exam by looking at the subject from different angles. However, another approach...
21st September 2009
There are lots of strategies for preparing for exams, and PMP exam prep is not exception. However, more often than not, the strategy stressed is to learn prepare for the PMP exam by looking at the subject from different angles. However, another approach...
07th September 2009
Now You're a PMP! What Next? Congratulations! You have earned your PMP certification and reached a career milestone. While it is an accomplishment worth celebrating, after a short time, the question becomes "What's next?"
What's next?
Yes, high ach...
07th September 2009
Many of us PMPs struggle with just how to earn our required 60 PMP PDUs (Professional Development Units) every 3 years. I will not repeat the strategies for personal PDU management as listed in prior articles by me - see Earning PDUs and Maintaining PMP...
07th September 2009
Project Management Training comes in many types, sizes, and flavors. Project Management is very popular topic at the organizational as well as professional level today, and thus PMT has become ubiquitous to support both the organizations and individual p...
27th June 2009
Choosing the right PM courses among the plethora of options, however, can be daunting! This article provides some guidance to help project managers more easily sift through the myriad of options and find the ideal set of PM training courses for their sit...
27th June 2009
Choosing the right project management courses, however, can become a bit daunting because there are just so many options! This article provides some guidance to help project managers take some first steps in running the gauntlet of options to find the id...
12th June 2009
You can start the process of choosing a project management training course by first looking at the problems you are facing today. For example, perhaps you are having stakeholder issues, or maybe gathering requirements effectively is your current challeng...
25th April 2009
The decision to spend some amount of money on something precedes any project or program. Given the expectation of a return on the investment, managers need to be knowledgeable about financial strategies and techniques. Here are the three most important fi...
17th April 2009
With the increasing pressure going on around the world, specifically to the project management industry, it is inevitable that managers always be alert and ready to put out a fire somewhere at some point. However, all is not lost, as there is always one g...
03rd March 2009
Top executives and stakeholders are often "sold" certain projects from within the organization. This normally happens, where a sales team first handles a project and then later assigns it to a project manager who "inherits" it.
This simply entails that...
23rd February 2009
I recently encountered a woman who was repatriating back to the US, having spent much of the past 15 years in Europe. She had extensive project management experience and had her own consulting company in Europe. She said that, as part of her 're-integra...
17th January 2009
Project managers manage...projects! Or, do they? Actually, I put forth that, at the end of the day, all project managers do is manage tasks. In fact, in a final analysis, all any manager does ultimately is manage tasks. This premise is based on the idea ...
