September 2005 Entries
The anxiety of Project Management Professional aspirants Some how, there is a general perception that Project Management Professional credential is very difficult to achieve. Some times some of my students get panicked with this, and they tend to pass this on to others in the batch also. It is some sort of epidemic among the aspirants. The panic trigger (the one who brings and spreads panic within the group) comes into the training program with the whole list of books available on project management...
'Benefits of having Project Management Professional Credential' a scenario based hypothesis The scenarios are worked out with the following assumptions; The PM is handling a project of this nature(size, complexity, distribution) for the first time The project is critical No special training on professional project management is provided to the project manager The organization do not have documented project guidelines for the project manager to refer to Scenario 1 – project initiation You are...
This is a very comon question asked by many PM aspirants. Techies want to become project managers fast, mostly becuase that is the only career path defined for them in most organizations. If some one asked me, about some thing I miss in my professional life very badly is 'technical skills'. When I was in my early thirties, I was doing very well technically and suddenly in one of the performance appraisals this question was asked to me by my then boss ' Do you want to tread the managerial path or...