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Your Project Management Professional (PMP®) credential has a three-year cycle during which you are expected to meet the Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) set forth by PMI. |
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PMI Receives ISO Accreditation for Certification Programs
by Michelle Bowles
Project Management Professional (PMP®) credential holders now have an additional advantage when it comes to approaching senior management or potential employers. As of December 2006, PMI’s PMP Certification Program received ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 accreditation, which ensures that personnel certifying bodies meet a certain set of standards. |
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| Made to Measure
Get the results that matter—using numbers and your gut.
by Janet Liao
It’s about quality, not just quantity. Project mangers who use qualitative data to articulate project success beyond the “big three”—scope, schedule and cost—are poised to exceed customer expectations.
But quality measures, such as honesty, teamwork and customer satisfaction, are often overlooked because they’re not immediately tangible, says Jim De Piante, PMP, executive project manager for IBM in Charlotte, N.C., USA. “A lot of times, we measure the things that are easy to measure and not the things that are useful to understand,” he says. |
| Embedded Uncertainty
Risk can be managed when properly entrenched into all stages of the project.
by Karina Sanchez
Project managers are well aware that risk can easily destroy a project and damage an organization. But these days, that’s not enough.
Risk must be addressed throughout a project’s life cycle, and project management practitioners continually need to revisit old risks and explore new risks, says Eric Spanitz, PMP, president of training and coaching firm Synergest Inc. and professor at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, both in Chicago, Ill., USA.
“Most project managers do risk assessment at the beginning of the project and [don’t think about it past that],” he says. |
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