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Why PMI Won’t Say If You Passed Or Failed Your PMP Exam By Guest Blogger Cornelius Fichtner, PMP The PMP Exam is changing on August 31st 2011. If you are taking the exam on or after this date, then your 200 questions will be based on the new PMP Exam Content Outline. To learn more about the detailed changes to the exam, please read my article “ The PMP Exam Changes on 31 August 2011. What This Means For You ”. In addition to what you can find in that article, PMI recently announced the following: If you are taking the PMP Exam on or after 31 August 2011, then - for a limited time only - PMI will not immediately tell you if you have passed or failed your exam. Let me explain: If you take your PMP Exam today, then “pass” or “fail” will immediately be displayed on your screen and printed on your examination report. But because PMI is changing the exam, they require some time to validate the new structure. They also need to make sure that the percentage of people passing/failing the ...

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...

The PMP Credential just like other credentials that the Project Management Institute www.pmi.org administers has a Timeline attached to it. Below is the PMP Credential Timeline explained. Do you or your Organization need Professional Project Management Training?Contact us today at info@ritetracconsult.com.ng

8 things the PMP exams changes means to the Potential PMP® Test Taker By now you must have heard that the PMP Exams will be changing and here is why? Every five to seven years, the Project Management Institute (PMI)® performs a Role Delineation Study(Job Analysis) to determine authority (“the role”), responsibilities & duties of project managers today.  The findings are then used to update the Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam. In this way, PMI ensures that the PMP Exam is a reflection of what project managers actually do in the field. If PMI didn’t regularly go through this process adding new elements and removing old ones, then you would still be tested on outdated methods that were used in the 1980s when the first PMP exam was given. PMI completed their latest study at the end of 2010. The findings will lead to an update in the PMP Exam on 31 August 2011. .   As a result, approximately 30% of the PMP exam will change. The Institute does this f...

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS ACQUISITION IS A CAREER ACCELERATOR A survey carried out by the National Association of Colleges and Employers Job Outlook 2007, employers rated communication skills, and honesty and integrity equally at the top of their list of what they look for in potential employees. Following closely behind communication, and honesty and integrity were: interpersonal skills, motivation/initiative, and strong work ethic and teamwork skills. One thing I know about those skills was that all of them are inherent in project management, and it emphasized what people believed for years: Project Management is a career accelerator.  What is Project Management? You May ask: 1. Project management is the art of getting things done. Project management teaches you how to make the most efficient use of resources to generate the best results in the least amount of time. At the end of every project, you capture best practices and lessons learned, creating an invaluable docume...

Project Manager Resume - How to write an excellent Project Manager Resume that gets the job! It is indeed a difficult task to write a single project manager resume that will be effective in attaining interviews for a variety of companies in several different industries as the Project Management career cuts across industries. Because there is so much competition for jobs, recruiters have become very good at “scanning” resumes. Scanning involves looking over a resume as quick as possible to look for keywords of interest such as “project manager”, “PMP” or “Prince2″ for example. While this is done manually, it’s often done with software as well. With that in mind, you’re probably thinking how will I get all the experience I have as a project manager into a format that will show up in the “scan”?To cut a long story short - an effective Project Manager Resume must be built in! For starters research the skills needed for the project management job you wish to obtain. Make sure you ...

What is Crowdsourcing?Where can i find help? Crowd sourcing has become very relevant in today's world and especially for the small nbusiness owners to be able to tackle projects,faster,cheaper etc According to www.wikipedia.com .Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a "crowd"), through an open call. Jeff Howe, one of the first authors to employ the term, established that the concept of crowd sourcing depends essentially on the fact that because it is an open call to an undefined group of people, it gathers those who are most fit to perform tasks, solve complex problems and contribute with the most relevant and fresh ideas. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task (also known as community-based design and distributed participatory design), refine or carry out the steps of an algorithm (see huma...