An interesting discussion for budding project managers at Project Management Central about preparing for PMP Examination. In this discussion forum project managers have shared their views about useful resources to prepare for PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification. You can read more about it here. As many project managers, professionals in the discussion stated, Rita Mulcahy’s preparation book considered to be the most recommended resource to prepare for the PMP examination.
The team at Element Project Services highlights project management efforts required for business sustainability. The article has the context of construction industry however the principles can be applied to other sectors too. The articles starts off this this article asking ‘What does sun, wind and light have to do with Project Management?’ thereby answering it as ‘Everything’. The article author argues about two points
On a related note, ProjectManagement.com is conducting survey on sustainability and project management. Fellow project managers can lend their hand to this effort.
Another project management related article where Jamie Vernon talks about project planning-execution as a learning process and importance of focusing on delivering value rather than blame game or short-sighted tactics. This article has some interesting/witty comments (like Remove Blame, Identify and quantify impact, Meta-tag the notes, put them in a common framework, and store them in a public area, The cathartic experience matters, Faster execution can be just as bad as slower execution, etc.) which will be interesting to project managers and guideline about moving forward with project planning, execution. Read more for details.
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