You were selected to manage a project but you have always been a part of a project instead of the cat herder you will become. Let me help you figure out your very next steps and how to navigate to a successful completion.
There are many pieces to a successful project all of which are used to various degrees and sometimes even skipped. Let us help you with the necessities of your project and help you get valuable deliverables completed
Changes can happen at critical times but it's not the end of the world. Let us help you explore strategies to stay or get back on track in the midst of your resource challenges and staffing surprises.
Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com is an example of a website that lists events, free and fee, from business to baseball and everything in between. If you are wanting to make more connections or research an area of interest, this is one of the best free ways to find out what is available. You can search by area…
I realize at some point, especially if you are looking for work, networking can be draining. However, you need to re-orient your view on networking. Think of it as a perfect opportunity to learn about people and professions, challenges and successes, and areas you might want to move your career toward. There is nothing like…
Besides a university and community colleges, trade schools are an excellent way to learn about the project management field. Trade schools often have free lectures and seminars on various topics. Often these meetings are sponsored by local groups who have additional opportunities to attend events and networking sessions. An after-hours meeting that I currently attend…
One resource you may be aware of is your local PMI, project management institute, chapter. There you will find others in the PM field, events, seminars, and training. For local support, it is one of the best options that you have to learn your field. In addition, you can visit other chapters near you or…
The PMI Project Management Book of Knowledge is a daunting 589 page framework to managing projects in general. Besides basic project management, it covers specialized areas of projects such as what would be used in manufacturing and aerospace. So you can see referring to it for managing a website project might become a project in…
My PMP assessment test is set for a 4-hour time limit daunting but this is the same as the real PMP exam. The PMP exam has 200 questions of which 175 will count toward your exam. This is a testing strategy used my many certification agencies which includes questions that don’t count toward your score. …
When you first log in, you have the option of clicking on a featured course to check out, search for courses, or go to your uCertify library of courses. In my library is the PMP Project Management Professional V5 Course. You have the option of jumping into where you left off with your lessons, viewing…
uCertify.com is a website dedicated to assiting you in preparing for taking certification tests. When you first login, you are met with nearly every possible professional technical exam. Some examples are Microsfot, Oracle, CompTIA, IIBA, Cisco, Adobe, and PMI. We all are already geared to studying for exams from our built-in 12 years of schooling,…
The Project Management Institute (PMI) will be updating its guide and test late March 2018. PMI will be adding several sections to its guide (PMBoK) and thus the exam. I once believed if you are a seasoned PM and familar with project management concepts and metholody such as Critial Path, Crashing the Schedule, Time and…
With MS applications existing in the Cloud, your organization has an agile opportunity to prove the application’s viability in your environment. The one thing you will not be able to save on in this approach is the time to go through the exercise of thoroughly vetting the application. You NEED to take the time to…