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PMP ® Exam Lessons Learned From Those Who Have Been There By Amar Roy, PMP and Cornelius Fichtner, PMP Are you considering studying for and obtaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) ® Certification? Are you wondering what study tools and methods others have used successfully? Are you interested in reading about the exam experiences of those who have recently passed the PMP ® Exam? Then there is a forum you should check out on The PM PrepCast website . All of the posts are lessons learned and tips from those who have recently become Project Management Professionals and who probably started with the same questions and concerns that you have. Let’s take a look at one example from this forum. It was written by Amar Roy, PMP shortly after he obtained his PMP ® Certification and contains the following insights into how the exam went for him. Lessons learned and tips related to registering for the PMP ® Exam: Decide on a timeline for when you wan...

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Project Management Concepts for Enterprise 2.0 By our Guest Blogger, Cornelius Fichtner, PMP Dennis Brooke has been using web based project management communications tools since the late 1990s. In his recent interview on The Project Management Podcast he discussed how Enterprise 2.0 project management tools can make the most of communications between team, sponsors and stakeholders. PMPs can earn 30 free PDUs by listening to the entire series of podcasts Effective Distribution Once you complete a report, distribution is the next step. Most people send it as an attachment to an email but that isn’t the most efficient way to make sure that everyone sees it. This is because email, although very convenient, often gets lost in the maze of folders that people use to organize their inboxes. They will read a report, file it away and often forget where they put it when they want to refer back to it. Thus, the PM will receive repeated requests for duplicates which will, again...