PMP Project Management
The daily stand-up meeting is one of the core events of an Agile project. During these meetings, daily updates are shared and obstacles are addressed, making this type of meeting essential for the project’s success. How daily stand-up meetings work During this meeting, each team member shares what they did on the previous day, what …
To become a successful project manager, you must have both an educational background and experience in order to master the basics of project management. Beyond the formal training, you also need analytical skills, communication skills, leadership, and even guts, as this field is methodical and scrupulous. And, in order to prove you got what it …
As an agile framework, Scrum addresses traditional project management challenges such as the fluctuating needs of customers, thanks to its iterative and incremental work organization. Scrum’s capability to adapt to the customer’s needs can be considered its main advantage. The Scrum method operates in an incremental mode to offer pieces of the main product at …
PMP aspirants tend to wonder about one key aspect before sitting for their certification exam: the PMP passing score. This point was and still is subject to many interpretations which causes a lot of confusion. In this blog post, we’re going to explain everything you need to know about the current PMP passing score, how …
A User Story is an Agile practice, primarily used in Scrum in order to capture the users’ needs by expressing the characteristics, functions, and requirements of the product to be created, in a general and not overly detailed way. User stories are part of the Product Backlog, which in Scrum represents a list of all …
The RACI matrix, aka the Responsibility assignment matrix, is an effective and popular project management tool that sometimes gets misused or misapplied. Therefore, this blog post is dedicated to explaining how RACI, when appropriately applied, can become a catalyst for your project’s success. What is RACI? RACI is an acronym that stands for the four …
When it comes to the PMP certification, we frequently hear terms like “Contact hours” and “PDUs”. But, we often get confused about their meaning and use. In this article, we are going to clear up any ambiguity concerning these two terms and their role in the certification process. The first and most recognizable distinction is …
The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification was and still is a compass for prospective project managers to test and prove their ability to perform the duties and responsibilities that their position entails. The credential went through a continuous evolution over the last 37 years, which often occurs after releasing a new version of the Project …
First things first, let’s just put it out there: The Statement Of Work (SOW) is so often the one piece of documentation that saves you from a world of trouble since it helps guarantee your project work will be done according to certain guidelines and expectations. On the other hand, it can be the worst …
With the launch of the new 2021 PMP certification exam, candidates planning to pursue the credential should be acquainted with the latest updates on both the exam content outline and reference list. The exam content outline exhibits the certification’s main layout while the exam reference list represents a number of book recommendations for the exam …
