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- Project Managers, What's Your Competitive Advantage?
[Business:Management] The question is, "How can we as professional Project Managers achieve competitive advantage in the marketplace?" We all owe it to ourselves to periodically assess and re-assess our personal strengths - our skill sets, our natural tendencies, and our position in the market vis a vis these strengths. These form our strategic, or competitive, advantages.
- Obama and the World of Project Management
[Business:Management] With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States and his coming inauguration in January, many are predicting his impact in specific areas. While his priorities are shifting, and will probably continue to in the face of current critical needs, there are likely to be some continuing themes that remain consistent throughout his time in office, and they can provide some guidance as to what to expect.
- PMP Exam Prep Strategy - Learn by Distinction
[Reference-and-Education] 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 is to learn by seeing contrasts, or learn by distinction. Here is a look at these 2 similar yet different strategies for PMP exam prep, or preparation for any exam. The best best idea is actually combine both strategies!
- CPA CPE - How to Survive Continuing Professional Education
[Business:Management] Let's face it. Continuing Professional Education is work. And it is required to stay current and to raise your skill level. So what is an ideal strategy for approaching continuing education requirements for CPAs? Can it be easy, enjoyable, strategic, and even fulfilling?
- Now You're a PMP! What Next?
[Business] 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...
- The Ups and Downs of Strategies For Earning PDUs
[Business] 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 PgMP Status Is Easy and 6 Things to Consider in Your PDU Planning - and others, but I will talk a bit about aligning your current career strategy with your PMP PDU strategy.
- Project and Program Managers' Top Three Financial Concepts
[Business:Management] Projects and programs result when a decision has been made to spend the money. More often than not, expenditures are based upon the desire to earn a good rate of return on the investment. This article talks about 3 important concepts and approaches for evaluating projects from a financial standpoint.
- Project Managers and PMPs - It's Time to Play!
[Business:Management] Today's world is full of pressure, and this is no less true for Project Managers than professionals in any other area. There is always a serious problem, a fire to put out, schedule pressure, constraints, stakeholder challenges, and more that can keep us in a pretty serious state. One of the best anecdotes for this pressures is free! We need to laugh and play!
- How to Sell Function, Feature, and Benefit to Stakeholders
[Business:Management] As project managers, we often "inherit" projects once they have already been sold to and accepted by stakeholders. A sales force in a consulting organization, for example, typically sells a project that is later assigned to a project manager. A similar situation exists within organizations, where a project has been "sold" to upper management and other stakeholders.
- Certification Crazy? Check the 'Other Side of the Coin'
[Computers-and-Technology:Certification-Tests] Undoubtedly there are some frustrations and challenges with certifications today, as there are processes, procedures, and rules to consider. However, I think that is only 'one side of the coin'. Yes, you have to work hard to get certified, and you need to make the effort to remain certified. You also need to five careful consideration and identify which certification(s) make the most sense for your career.
- 6 Levels of Understanding - Evaluating Readiness to Take the PMP Or CAPM Exam
[Computers-and-Technology:Certification-Tests] When preparing for the the PMP or CAPM exam, or any certification exam for that matter, the top challenge that everyone faces is evaluating personal readiness to take the exam. How does one assess readiness? This article discusses a cognitive framework for evaluating readiness to take the PMP, CAPM, or any other certification exam.
- 10 Steps Towards Advanced Project Management
[Business:Management] Often professional project managers find that when they go for a certification, such as the PMP certification, they are surprised at how much they learn in the process. While experience is very valuable, especially in feeling more than comfortable with the basics, there is always a great deal of improvement available to studying a structured and comprehensive approach.
- Environmental Consciousness For Project and Program Managers
[News-and-Society:Environmental] For many years, the debate over global warming and environmental consciousness has raged. This debate has become deeply embedded into the political consciousness, in most places around the world. This debate will surely continue for a long time to come, and it will be a long time before any claims are proven to be indisputably accurate.
- 4 Ways For Project Managers to Build Stronger People Skills
[Business:Management] It has been said many times that people skills are the most important to career success. However, we do see a great emphasis on "tools", whether it is in project management frameworks, or MBA programs, or Six Sigma, or any other approaches. How can a project or program manager hone these skills, as they are so important to continued career success?
- Surpassing Customer Expectations Without Gold-Plating
[Business:Customer-Service] Expert project managers and even literature on the subject will emphasize that gold-plating your services is never the best way to go; that is, if you want your company to survive for years to come. The first thing to do whenever you're starting any project or organization is to lay down a set of rules and standards.
- Finding Inspiration For a Successful Project
[Business:Productivity] Starting a project entails quite a few dilemmas. One either lacks the idea or has an idea but has no clue on how to get it started. In professional situations, more often than not the professional project manager is simply handed a project. In any case, having a good level of conviction about the project is a key enabler at the outset of a successful project.
- Leverage Upper Management Perspective to Survive Tough Times
[Business:Management] In times of crisis, such as the current worldwide recession , the role that project or program managers perform is critical. The dramatic changes in the economic situation has led to quite a few people losing jobs as companies cut costs or restructure their organization. Many projects and programs have been canceled due to severe crisis. How can project and program managers cope with this crisis?
- 7 Tips Toward a More Effective Virtual Team
[Business:Top7-or-10-Tips] Virtual teams, software program outsourcing, and projectization are fast becoming quite common in organizations. With new advancements in technology, these have enabled companies to broaden opportunities and create more possibilities for some people to work remotely. At the same time, these offer special challenges for both project managers and members of these virtual team.
- Where's the Fit? ITIL and Project Management
[Computers-and-Technology:Certification-Tests] It is always good for professionals to combine the right sets of expertise. For someone involved with IT infrastructure projects, ITIL is a great complementary certification. What I find is that often the specialty knowledge drives the PRODUCT of efforts, but the project management skills drives the PROJECT that produces the PRODUCT. On solid technical teams, that second mindset is often missing.
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