Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT Below are two companies. Both the same relative size, both serving the same sector (IT contracted services for Federal Government Agencies). These charts show the companies’ stock performance over ten years – the one ROI performance metric corporate shareholders easily agree upon. The red dots represent the companies’ respective […]
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, RYT Moving on From Haines, Alaska – Cheetah Agile Project Sept 17 – 30, 2021 To celebrate Cheetah’s 20 year anniversary of helping cheetah students pass the PMP exam after only four days of accelerated exam prep (yes the lion’s share of Cheetah students pass the actual PMP exam on
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT Today, September 14, 2021 is the twenty year anniversary of our first Cheetah student passing the PMP exam after Cheetah’s four day accelerated exam prep program. We know a thing or two after twenty years of helping tens of thousands of Cheetah students pass the PMP exam, with
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT I spent a rainy weekend in April watching every streaming show I could find on Greece. It was my first “arm chair” adventure as I tend to prefer to take the actual trip than to just dream about taking the trip someday. However my plans to travel to
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT A recent Cheetah Exam Prep student, who passed PMI’s PMP exam “Above Target” in every area, posted this on Trust Pilot: “Cheetah Learning is EXCELLENT! The instructors in this program did an amazing job teaching course material in a way that was easy to understand, follow and absorb
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT When I was younger (way younger), I would do woodworking projects with my Dad. They started out with some design I had sketched out on graph paper (this was before Computer Aided Design). We spent a good deal of time measuring – way more than the measure twice,
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT In a world going increasingly insane, the mantra “It’s All Just Information” is what keeps me on this side of the sanity line. Thirty years ago, I adopted this philosophy when dealing with the country building department on my first home. Their lack of clear direction made every
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT In the last blog post, I talked about the importance of having the right project management process, then the right people for creating sustainable results with your projects. There is another element that can make completing your projects much easier – it’s right timing. There are two levels
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT In many organizations, Project Managers do not have much say in the people available to work on their projects and must follow project management processes dictated by their organization. Often they neither have the right people nor the right process to generate good results with their projects. This
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT What I love about the Cheetah Agile Project approach is the focus on only one project for two weeks. It allows me to say “no” to taking on more “opportunities” than any human could possibly handle. What I find happens in those times where there are people clamoring
