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7 Agency New Business Trends You Should be Anticipating and Working Towards

10/31/2018

The agency world is changing fast. New technologies and competitors threaten your market position. This guide looks at 7 top agency new business trends and how to deal with them.

It’s hard to run an agency today. Between competition for consultancies and tech firms, emerging trends, and ever-increasing attrition rates, you have your hands full.

If you are to thrive in 2019, you have to look out for agency new business trends. What are the technologies that will build the next billion-dollar agency? How should you deal with the threat of consultancies? And what can you do to position yourself as a market leader?

What is Your PM Spiritual Animal? Let's Celebrate Project Manager Week

10/31/2018

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Want to PMP Certify, but Something is Holding You Back

10/30/2018

Is This You?

You are in Fear of the PMP exam because you've heard most people fail the Exam in their first attempt?
It’s taking WAAAY too long to study for the PMP Exam? With each step forward, you take several steps back.
You're overwhelmed by the number of Formulas to memorize. You're scared of forgetting the formulas too!
Booked the Exam date, but Running out of Time to Prepare...

You're Worried About Memorizing Inputs, Tools & Techniques, Outputs?
With the thick PMBOK Guide & Other Exam Prep books, you're not sure where to Start.
HELP! The exam's just changed soon. What Should I do???
You dread failing the PMP exam Yet Again!

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Hitting the Ground Running with CAPM Certification

10/29/2018

The purpose of this program is help you become CAPM® certified and it is modeled after Cheetah's very successful Cheetah Exam Prep® for the PMP® Exam course. Cheetah Learning has designed a format that enables you to use the same techniques they use in class on your own, over a three-week period. To start the Cheetah Exam Prep® for the CAPM® Online Course, you must complete a Pre-Course, which includes registering and being accepted to take PMI’s CAPM® credentialing exam and scheduling your CAPM® within three calendar days of completing the Cheetah Exam Prep® for the CAPM® (three-week) Online Course.

This is a course to help you become CAPM® certified and is designed to push you to complete the work and take the exam. You are given all the tools to prepare for the exam, including access to Cheetah's world class CAPM® coaches for four weeks (one week for Pre-Course and three weeks for the Cheetah Exam Prep for the CAPM® exam prep course). You have to determine when to set aside the 10 to 12 hours of study time per week so you can successfully pass the exam after completing the this program.

Program Details

Credits – 50 Cheetah Spots/Education Hours
Tuition – $1,500 USD
Start Date – The program is available online, and you can start the Pre-Course as soon as your payment is processed.
Course Materials – In order to complete the second course in series, Cheetah Exam Prep® for the CAPM® (3-week) Online Course activities, you will need to have the items listed below. All other material to complete the Cheetah CAPM® Exam Prep Program activities is delivered online, including exams.
- A copy of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge-Fifth Edition (PMBOK® Guide). If you don’t already have a copy of the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition, Cheetah suggests you order a copy now. You can click on the text title above to order online or you may wish to check your local bookstore.
- Colored index cards – 30 each of the following colors: gray, orange, blue, red, green, brown, tan, purple, yellow, teal, and pink; OR, if you are unable to find index cards in the suggested colors, you can use colored paper folded and cut resulting in four cards per piece of paper.
- Colored markers to match the colored cards (gray, orange, blue, red, green, brown, tan, purple, yellow, teal and pink).
- Sugar-free mints
- Calculator
- Timer

What You’ll Learn

This course includes activities specifically designed to help you learn and remember key information that you will need to successfully pass PMI certification exam. Topics covered include:

Mind Mapping
Project Integration
Project Scope
Time, Cost & Quality Management
Human Resources Management
Communication, Risk & Procurement Management
Test-Taking Basics

Cheetah Learning Objectives are for each student to:

Pass The Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) credential exam.
Make the best use of your study time to be successful with passing the CAPM® exam.
Be able to use the tools and techniques you learned while studying for the CAPM® exam to improve your abilities to learn and to do Project Management.

5 Quick Steps to Becoming a PMP

10/26/2018

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I'm 92% Done with My Assigned Project Task

10/24/2018

As project managers we often live and die by the percent complete of the tasks on our project schedules. We obsess over them and compare the tasks to the calendar dates. Are we as far along as we should be? Is my assigned resource making progress? And what, exactly, does 43% complete really mean? What does it look like? If you’re me it looks about like the progress in my new house that my contractor has made up to this point when he was supposed to be done a little over a month ago. Ugh! But I digress…

You can understand my frustration – and skepticism – with the reporting of percent complete from project staff. How many times have you relied on your project team to supply you with weekly (perhaps even daily?) percent complete updates on some of their key tasks and curiously the progress reported sometimes rises by 1% over the previous week’s report. 1%. What is that? And we often don’t question it because it is at least showing progress, there isn’t anything going on that is a showstopper for the project and we’re too busy to dig deeper into that 1% progress report...

Interested in PMP Certification - Contact Me to Get More Info About that Next Step

10/18/2018

If any of your team or contacts or clients aren't PMPs but want to go that route, I can get them a great discount with Cheetah Learning for individuals or a bigger discount for team signups of 3 or more. Let me know... they are PMP exam prepped and then certified within a 5 day period and it's a 100% pass guarantee. Contact me for the code to the PMP training discount or any other specialized training Cheetah offers. I know the CEO - she's great and I the company loves helping all of us become better leaders. And they are creating fast learners and leaders with their training. Classroom, online or virtual - you choose the route you and your team want to go. Contact me and I'll put you in touch with the right person or you can contact Cheetah directly. The code is BRADPMP for PMP exam prep and certification.

Why Virtual and Remote Teams are Successful

10/15/2018

Are you a project manager who needs to pitch the concept of remote project management to your PMO director? Or are you a PMO director of CIO or corporate exec building your project management model and you need to pitch the virtual project management team model to your CEO or the rest of your leadership team? I’m sure there are many resources out there that tell you why remote project management is a good idea or why virtual project teams work. Hint…if you read the phrase carbon footprint in the article anywhere run away…it’s likely outdated. I’m not saying you want save resources and a few trees and percentages of the ozone layer by going remote, but the term carbon footprint has almost a “disco” ring to it….so avoid that as part of the argument.

Here are a few arguments that can be made for remote project management from my perspective as I’ve been doing it successfully for most of the past 12 years or so…

Read the full article...

I Can Work from Anywhere and Other Remote Project Management Myths

10/11/2018

I will be the first to say that remote work works for me. It works great, and I've been doing it productively, effectively and successfully for years.

But I realize that is not necessarily for everyone, it may not work on all types of projects, and it may not work in all companies, countries and industries. But it works for me in Las Vegas, Nevada.

To make a broad statement like “I can work from anywhere” is simply not true. It's like Green Eggs and Ham. Would you really work a project in a boat, with a goat, in the rain, in the dark, on a train, in a car, in a tree, in a box, with a fox, in a house, and with a mouse? Probably just “in a house.” But not with a mouse. Although I have performed project work in several of those other places listed above. But not knowingly with a mouse... So many of the others are fallacies, but they make a great story...

5 Myths About Project Meetings

10/11/2018

Project meetings – necessary evils in the world of project management. But meetings are meetings, right? No. All attendees come to meetings because you invited them so they have to, right? No. If you say it’s important, everyone needs to take note and be there, right? No. You’re the project manager so what you say goes, right? No. People view meetings as a nice break from the daily routine and a chance to stay up to date on project information, right? No.

These are five, among probably many more, myths about project meetings that I’ve seen through the years. Meetings have to happen, yes, but getting people in the seats is not a given…and for many it isn’t even likely. Let’s examine these further…

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