Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT (Harvard Business School – OPM35) I would recommend you get the PMP FIRST – and get some solid experience leading projects of increasing complexity under your belt. In discussions with recruiters over the years, they found it much more valuable people who had some experience then got their MBA. […]
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According to the Project Management Institute, “only 64 percent of government strategic initiatives ever meet their goals and business intent — and that government entities waste $101 million for every $1 billion spent on project and programs. The research also shows that adopting best practices (in Project Management) result in improved efficiency and less money
You can find hundreds of books for becoming better at taking exams. You can also find numerous books about what to study for taking the PMP exam. And you can take weekend classes, join study groups, and do many sample practice exams. Many people think this is sufficient effort to pass the PMP exam, but
Jean Steinmetz (CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP), who wrote the Cheetah Agilebok, says she gets the “Agile vs. Scrum” question from almost everyone she speaks with about PMI’s Agile Certification (PMI-ACP). According to Jean – “This is a common question since the Jan 2012 launch of PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification. PMI-ACP is about ALL agile
Chief Cheetah’s Insights Hello from Haines, Alaska. Yes I came to Alaska for the holidays. Now before you think I’m a little off, this is where I hang my hat as often as I can throughout the year. I found my way here in 2002 on a vacation. Like many of my neighbors, I immediately
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT I had a good friend who routinely said – “If you don’t like your view, change your seat.” For the past several months I’ve been reeducating myself on digital marketing, search engine optimization, everything “social” and have realized I need to “change my seat.” I’m visiting my daughter in
Three ways yoga helps learning Yesterday we wrote about being wrong as a common feeling in learning (and marriage). Feeling you are wrong produces anxiety that puts your brain into a state that makes learning difficult – if not impossible. (Could this be why those in the “being wrong” type of marriage feel their spouse stopped
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT I reached out to Cheetah’s PMP coaches on what they have learned most about coaching our students to become PMP certified. Our Cheetah Exam Prep Coach, Ray Strano, PMP had this to say: Erma Bombeck was an American humorist who published 15 books from the mid-1960s until the late
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT Several years ago we studied the annual reports of Cheetah’s publically traded corporate clients. (Well actually we hired someone who likes to study these types of reports). We found that after ten years of service to some of the biggest, most successful publicly traded companies in the US, 90%
