Here is a PMP community that has the PEOPLE in mind first...

Published: Sun, 10/11/15

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Congratulations to our students who passed the PMP exam!

- Ian McFarland, PMP
- Paul Smith, PMP
- Lise LaFontaine, PMP
- Beau Storch, PMP
- Prashant Shah, PMP

 
Have you passed your exam as well? Then let us know by writing to examtips@pm-prepcast.com
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Brian Berkeley, PMP

"I purchased the PM Study Coach to help give me a framework of what to study and how long it should take me.  As I went through each chapter, I became more confident in what I needed to know to be successful..."
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We are passionate about helping you succeed in your PMP exam so we make sure that we respond to your questions and concerns as soon as we can in our PMP exam prep forums. 

What makes it even more special is that your PMP exam prep questions are being answered by 12 certified PMPs!


Here is what one of our forum members has to say:

"Thank you all for responding to my concerns! Wow, this community really has the PEOPLE in mind first unlike other forums that I have participated. I plan to incorporate your suggestions into my study plan to yield the most out of that week (aka the dead week before college finals).

Talking about study plan, have any of you created and utilized one before taking the PMP exam? If so, do you mind sharing yours with the group here? Ultimately, this is to keep myself accountable on the progress that I have made through studying each PMBOK guide chapter. Thank you again for the help! - David"
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The PMP Exam Changes After 11 January 2016. Here’s What This Means For You

​Every five to seven years, the Project Management Institute performs a "Role Delineation Study (RDS)". This is basically a big survey among project managers like you and me from around the world with the goal to identify what it is that we do on our projects. As a result of the most recent RDS, PMI now has a pretty accurate picture of the tasks that we project managers perform, as well as the knowledge and skills required for our job...​
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Why Get a Personal PMP Exam Coach?

​Your coach works with you (either one-on-one or in a group) to assess your needs, determine where you lack knowledge and recommend a study plan for you.

In this way you know exactly where you stand and what the best (and usually fastest) way is for you to study and pass the PMP exam.

By attending the regular coaching sessions -- usually once every week -- you have the chance to review your progress and discuss issues with the coach.

Also, our coaches are "tough" and point out any slack if you don't hold up your end of the bargain -- just like any good coach or tutor should!

To learn more about PMP Exam Coaching please visit www.pm-prepcast.com/coaching or email Dan Ryan at dan.ryan@osp-international.com
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Free PM PrepCast lesson: Understand project schedule network diagram for the PMP exam 

In this lesson, we cover the project schedule network diagram. We explain what it is, why it is so important for your project and how to apply the critical path method to it, so that you can determine early and late start/finish dates as well as schedule flexibility (aka. float or slack).
About half of the lesson is spent on performing a forward pass / backward pass through a network diagram, much like you may have to do in on your PMP exam.
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Watch the video here...
PrepCast Website Upgrade & Downtime​

This is an early announcement for all our website users. 

We are in the process of upgrading The PM PrepCast website to the latest version of our content management system. At the same time we will also move the website to a bigger and faster webserver. 

This upgrade and migration will result in a website downtime of 24-48 hours. The exact date of this downtime has not yet been scheduled.
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We will keep updating you of our progress and will announce the exact date of the downtime approximately 2 weeks in advance.
PMP Exam Sample Question 

You are considering using WBS templates to create your project's WBS. Where would you most likely find these templates?

A. Enterprise Environmental Factors 
B. Requirements Documentation 
C. Project Management Plan 
D. Organizational Process Assets

HINT: Get your mind out of the PMBOK Guide and think freely for this question.
Get the answer here!
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Just finished my first PM Podcast interview with Frank Parth on successful projects. If you're at the PMI Congress, I'd love to meet you! I'll be presenting "How to Successfully use Social Media and Online Collaboration on Your Projects" 

Simply select this as the session you are going to attend on Tuesday, October 13th 2015, at 8:30am as you make your global congress selections. See you there! 
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