According to the Project Management Institute Pulse of the Profession Survey – “… on average organizations waste 9.9 percent of every dollar* due to poor project performance and that around one in three projects (31 percent) do not meet their goals, 43 percent are not completed within budget, and nearly half (48 percent) are not completed […]
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Click here to see Part 2 of Agile Project Management of Going to the Taylor Swift Concert Take the Pokey or Swiftie Survey The Agile Retrospective When I was a kid, for five years, my friends and I threw an annual Halloween party. While I don’t remember all the details of every one of those
Click Here to See Part 1 of Agile Project Management of Going to the Taylor Swift concert. Take the Pokey or Swiftie Survey We made it to Vegas late Thursday night, with plenty of time to get acclimated to the whole scene before the concert on Saturday night. Several days before we got there, our
Take the Pokey or Swiftie Survey The lyrics in Taylor Swift’s song Mastermind, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail, Strategy sets the scene for the tale,” is a big tell she is at her core a Project Manager and part of the reason for her tremendous success. I also noticed, many “Swifties” are
People who can pass the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam are able to do so because they possess systems thinking capability. We realized this over two decades ago at Cheetah Learning which is why we teach Cheetah students how to master systems thinking in four days to be able to logically deduce the correct answers on
My start in the quality world was as a newly minted Second Lieutenant in the Air Force when I was “volunteered” to be on an Inspector General team. At first, I thought it was penance for “break all the rules” let’s shake up the world energy of someone just out of college. But, the General in
Since Cheetah Learning’s payroll account was with SVB, I experienced firsthand the impact of this bank’s collapse. Yet it was not the first time one of our banks had collapsed. In 2008, we had the company’s operating funds in Colonial Bank when they collapsed. I got notification of that from a Cheetah PMP coach on
A colleague forwarded me a copy of another company’s PMP Exam Prep marketing brochure they recently received via email (we’re talking 2023 here – their material reads as if Rip Van Winkle woke up after 20 years and wrote it). I was pretty shocked by what I saw being passed off as PMP Exam Prep
