Are you still wondering why you should be a project manager?

Then this Ebook will definitely help you find the answer - 52 Tips to Break Into Project Management.

In this ebook you will get expert tips from 52 Project Management Professionals collected by Geoff Crane.

Including our very own Cornelius Fichtner PMP, CSM's piece of advice about why you should NOT as your boss to make you project manager...

This week's featured lessons learned comes to us courtesy of Oguntade Ayo, PMP.

In this lessons learned Oguntade Ayo shared his PMP passing experience, materials and tips. Take a peek on this exciting and detailed story of his successful exam preparation.

"I started studying January 1, 2014 (Getting the PMP was my new year resolution:) ). I got my 35 contact hours from PM prepcast. I had 23/25 in my final assessment test. I joined the PMI and I submitted my application and got an email after 3 days to "Continue with my Application". This required me to pay PMP Exam fee. As soon as I submitted the payment, I just saw "Your PMP application is being Audited". Here comes the dreaded application audit!"...

To deliver the best possible PMP Exam prep training to you we are partnering with independent trainers around the world to deliver a course to you that blends instructor-led training with our very own self-study tools.

When signing up for these classes you will have the benefit of attending in-person or online instruction and also receive access to our self-study materials like The PM PrepCast or PM Exam Simulator.

This blended approach allows you to first participate in a classroom training and then deepen the instruction and practice your PMP exam with self-study. It's the fast-track to your PMP certification.

There is a bit of a disconnect that PMP Exam takers report as they are preparing for the exam. You must be an experienced project manager to take the exam, and so you bring years of experience in managing projects and using tools & techniques with you. Often, this is all based on company internal project management best practices and tactics that you found working for you.

However, the PMP Exam requires that you know and apply the concepts from the PMBOK Guide to real-life situations as presented in the exam questions...

You have just been hired as the operations manager for a telecommunications company.

You are tasked with improving the company's services and operations and a team of 20 engineers report to you. During your first week at this company, you found that the engineers spend at least 80% of their time responding to unexpected requests for information from different stakeholders. Because of this, your engineers cannot focus on the operations, which is resulting in frequent network outages.

As the project manager, what should you do first to resolve this problem?

A. Tell the engineers to stop responding to unexpected requests since they are not covered in the Communications Management Plan
B. Push the engineers to respond to all the requests faster so that they are able to perform their regular duties
C. Perform all project communications yourself and let the engineers focus on the operations
D. Analyze the stakeholder requirements and review the Communications Management Plan

Hint: You need to further investigate the problem.

Highly recommended! PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide Written by project management expert Kim Heldman

PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide (Disclosure: Compensated Affiliate) is an excellent book that will guide project managers on their way to the PMP Exam. It provides comprehensive coverage of the exam objectives, essential PMP topics, concepts, and key terms...