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LinkedIn for Your PM Career

LinkedIn For Your Project Management Career

What is LinkedIn LinkedIn is a network founded in 2002 with a focus on career development, job advancement, and professional networking. It’s power of influence is supported by the $26.2 billion price tag Microsoft paid for it in 2016. Unlike Facebook, Instagram or other social networks, Linked is an “employment-related social network” offering members professional …

PMI-PBA Certification

Is the PMI-PBA ® Certification for You? Probably!

Are you one of the 1,000,000+ Project Management Professionals (PMP)® who are thinking about your next career development move to stay fresh, keep current, reinvent yourself, or just refine your knowledge in a professional area of interest? That’s good. Because this is not the time to let your skills stagnate and there are so many opportunities …

Agile for All

Agile for All

Teams that seek to deliver quality, tested deliverables in as short a timeframe as possible are likely already using Agile practices even if they do not know it. The Agile Project Management framework in fact leverages practices that are so common that they do not have an “origin” story, such as prioritization, stand-up meetings, and …

Status Report Tips

What is the Status of Your Status Reports?

The time you spend to ensure you have effective and efficient status reports, will benefit you in current projects and beyond. Use the three tips below to take a careful look at your current reporting and find ways to make it move from a “yellow” or “red” status to “green” thus ensuring better communications in …

Five Common Agile Myths

In 2015 I wrote an article intending to debunk some common myths about project management. Like many of you, I spent a reasonable amount of time during my first few years participating in online forums correcting agile misconceptions. Unfortunately, just like lopping heads off the Hydra, every time I’d address one myth, a short time later it …

Earn Your PMP in 2020

Critical Project: Earn Your PMP® Certification in 2020

As the job market evolves, you should always be working on keeping skills fresh and expertise sharp. A Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification enhances the professional standing of anyone, regardless of whether your official title is “project manager” or if project management is a skill set within many you have. Research for the U.S. suggests …

what is project management

What is Project Management?

If you have ever planned a family event, arranged for friends to do an activity together, completed a residential move, you have conducted project management (PM). This skill set is used every day across the world in countless ways. Formal recognition of it as a profession unto itself occurred in the mid-20th century. Project Management …

Why Choose a PMI Authorized Training Partner (ATP) for Your Training

Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Authorized Training Partners program ensures that all training content and instructors are aligned with industry standards so you can be confident about the variety of courses in your area. Whether you’re looking for an entire project management course, or if it’s just a refresher on key skills like communication – Project …

Back to Office Plan

Project Managers: Don’t Neglect Your “Back to the Office” Plan!

It would be an understatement to say that project managers have had to deal with a lot of change this year. Projects have had their budgets vastly reduced or been cancelled outright, and remote work has become the norm rather than the exception. We are still far from the end of the pandemic, but in …

Managing Project Scope

Managing Project Scope

Everything is ready for your Project Kick Off: a scope statement, a defined process for approvals, a documented change process, and a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Everything will go exactly as planned from Day One, right? Uh, likely not. Project Managers have to manage the change requests guaranteed to come from the start. The …