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What are Contact Hours?
What is the difference between contact hours and PDU? How to get contact hours for PMP? These are some of the most frequently asked questions in the area of professional development, particularly PMP certification. PMI requires the PMP candidates to have at least 35 contact hours of formal project management …
PMP Audit Process - A Step-by-Step Guide and FAQs
PMI PMP audit is probably the most feared part of PMP Certification. Most fears are uncalled for and probably stem from the confusion around the audit process. If you understand the process well, it will take away some anxiety and help you concentrate on the exam.
Effective Project Management Consultancy (EPMC) involved in Intellectual Property Theft/Fraud
Effective Project Management Consultancy (EPMC), a PMI-REP recently tried to steal BrainBOK’s Intellectual Property (IP), specifically the PMP and CAPM exam prep content. The owner of the site Vaijayantee Kamat’s credit card was used to purchase multiple subscriptions of our online PMP and CAPM courses. Usually, our …
PM Study - Blacklisted for Spamming and Shady Marketing Tactics
My blog had been receiving non-stop SPAM comments from the marketing team of PM Study. I sent them at least 10 emails requesting them to refrain from such practices. However, I did not receive a single response. I tried to find a contact number on their website, but there …
Discrete Effort, Apportioned Effort and Level of Effort (LOE) Explained
Discrete Effort, Apportioned Effort and Level of Effort (LOE) are the 3 types of activities used in Earned Value Management (EVM) to measure work performance. This is an area that is not well understood or explained in project management references. The purpose of this post is to distill all the …
Planned Value (PV) vs Earned Value (EV) in Earned Value Management (EVM)
What’s the difference between Planned Value (PV), Earned Value (EV), and Actual Cost (AC) in Earned Value Management (EVM)? This is one of the most frequently asked question by people when they first come across the EVM concepts. I got this question in the email (not for the first …
PMP Exam Change 2016: New Topics and Study Guidance (Part 2)
PMP Exam Change 2016 (Part 2): In Part 1, we learned about PMI’s Role Delineation Study (RDS), PMP Exam Content Outline, PMBOK Guide, and PMP Handbook, and how these influence the PMP Exam. We have all heard that 8 new tasks have been added, few tasks have been modified …
PMI Books24x7 (eReads and Reference) is Dead
For the past few days, PMI’s Books24x7 site has been down. The website says “We’re Sorry - PMI.org will be back soon.” This website used to provide more than 250 project management books, many of which are extremely useful for PMP, CAPM, and PMI-ACP exam prep. The …
PMI - Wake Up! PMP Handbook is Out of Date since Jan 12, 2016
It’s been more than a month since PMP Exam changed (Jan 12, 2016). But Project Management Institute (PMI) is yet to update the PMP Handbook to reflect the changes. Apart from this, the handbook has other glaring errors, which can mislead or confuse PMP aspirants. Such errors are unpardonable …