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My PMP Certification Exam Strategy – by Abhishek Thakur, PMP

by Shiv Shenoy

Abhishek Thakur passed his PMP certification exam recently. He works as a bid manager at Accenture Solutions and has more than thirteen years of experience.

His areas of expertise include pre-sales, proposal development, competitive insights, and pricing intelligence. Apart from work, he spends whatever free time he has in photography, biking and reading. Abhishek can be reached here.

In this post he shares his approach to PMP exam, his strategies, and study tips.

Why PMP?

The professional world is a never-ending journey. One needs to constantly grow, evolve, learn, and re-learn. There is a constant need to present and prove yourself as capable enough in this ever-changing environment.

With this in the background, I set out to get myself a certification which would show my current and prospective employers –

that I have the required subject matter knowledge in project management
that I have the resilience and perseverance to stay the course
that I am competitive and can justify the given role

Project management being a subset of the entire business management field excites me a lot. Its application finds use far and wide across the industries and firms at a global level.

More and more companies are understanding the value of carrying a good chunk of their work as projects or programs or as a portfolio of projects.

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Having a sound knowledge of the principles, theories and practices of the project management field is thus an attractive proposition even for an experienced professional like me.

Robin Singh shares an easy 1 hr-a-day strategy and study techniques he used to get PMP without much effort.

The beginning

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FREE PMP® TRAINING: PROJECT STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

by Shiv Shenoy

Half of 2019 is gone! And you can still fulfill your New Year PMP® resolution!

In fact right now is the best time to get started. BEFORE the new PMP exam kicks in on 16 Dec, 2019!

I will help you achieve it. Even if you wanted to make it in next 30-45 days!

stakeholder management training

The PMP Last Mile course students loved the course and live mock tests as I solved ’em. And now you can access the video training and mock test, and its solution video for Free!

Hope you have been able to enjoy the free PMP® trainings we’ve published in the recent past, and here’s a brand new free PMP® training for you today.

I just concluded putting together a massive training on Project Stakeholder Management, covering the following areas –

How to identify stakeholders?
How to get stakeholders support the project?
How to create Stakeholder Register?
How to create Stakeholder Engagement plan?
How to classify Stakeholders?
What’s Power-Interest/Power-Influence grid?
What is Stakeholder Cube?
What is Salience model, how is it used?
How to do Stakeholder Analysis?
What is Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix?
What skills needed to manage stakeholders?
…and more

Explained with examples, mnemonics, thumb rules, and mind map… in ways that you cannot forget even if you wanted to!

One of the important parts of PMP® exam is PROJECT STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT – this has process each in Initiating, Planning, Executing, and Monitoring & Controlling process groups!

And in this 7-part, 3+ hours of conversational training you will learn ALL the concepts required to answer Stakeholder Management questions on your PMP exam.

Some of students say they feel as if I am tutoring them one-on-one and they find it much easier to study this way.

Plus, I have included 2 mock tests. Take the tests and mark your answers and score. Then I show you how to go about answering them on the exam.

Plus the entire mind map – both in raw form and image form, so you can add on with your own notes and/or simply print and paste at your study desk.

For being part of PMExamSmartNotes community you will be able to access part training for free today.

Please note that this training is part of a larger paid course, and will be disabled for non-members shortly, so please go ahead and sign up today –

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This Easy 1 hr-a-day Strategy Got Me PMP on First Attempt – Robin Singh, PMP

by Shiv Shenoy

Shiv, I passed my PMP exam! Here is my account of PMP Lessons Learned. I have tried to keep it brief and to the point. Hope it helps PMP aspirants and your blog readers.

What triggered my interest in PMP

I started my career as a Project Management trainee 6 years ago and fell in love with the role. New products products to build, new problems to solve, this role is something that gives me innate satisfaction at the end of the day.

I wanted to get structured education in project management and chose PMP as I felt it gave the most well-rounded project management knowledge. Something that I can apply at my job immediately.

Study resources I used for exam prep

My organization provided me the necessary training which helped me fulfill the 35 contact-hr education requirement needed for PMP. Apart from that I just skimmed through PMBOK and Rita’s book.

I tried reading through the chapters, however, what worked best for me was to first do the exercises and then study based on the questions I got wrong.

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Yes, there IS a FREE simulator link towards the end of this post. If you found it, there is another surprise in the waiting that could be your ticket to PMP success.

My study approach and study plan

As I mentioned, my study approach was to first attempt the exercises at the end of each chapter and then read/go through what was not answered correctly. [continue reading…]

PMP: How To Hit Your New Year Resolution In a Powerfully Simple Way [Ends on 6 Dec]

by Shiv Shenoy

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The New Year is approaching faster than a bullet train.

It feels as if 2018 began just yesterday. Doesn’t it?

Time does fly.

Were you able to accomplish all of your New Year resolutions for this year?

I did not get to many of mine, to be honest. Well, I couldn’t even start on a few.

And one of the reasons I realize is that I never made any concrete plans to achieve these resolutions.

Do you think this was a reason for missing any of your resolutions, if you did?

While this is a great time to look back at the year and see what accomplished, now is also the right time to start making goals for the near year.

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And more importantly to put some concrete action plans in place so that you will achieve them.

What’s your key New Year resolution?

For most of us in project management role, one of our goals is to get certified.

A well-respected certification gives us,

the necessary knowledge to do our job better
a way to get recognized as an authority in project management
a means to get ahead in career (yes, performance appraisal is not too far away)

And if you ever googled for PMP preparation material, the gazillion results wouldn’t fail to overwhelm you.

Ever since I began to coach PMP students over 5 years ago, my focus has been to remove the blockers that busy professionals such as you face on the way to achieving PMP credential.

And a HUGE part of this is to simplify the study process itself.

All this comes from a genuine concern for people fighting through to get to their PMP goal – unreasonable demands of the job, pressing need to give time for family with kids, the pressure of being socially active and involved, and the essential need to make time for self.

I’ve been spending insane amount of time understanding the research findings on how our mind grasps new information. And to apply these to each of the study tools we’ve created for PMP preparation.

One such is the 12-module PMP ‘Last Mile’ course. [continue reading…]

Don’t Study for PMP Exam till Black Friday!!

by Shiv Shenoy

It was a Friday late evening.

Just finishing up my work and getting ready to hit the sack, I heard a Skype chime.

It was my friend Dan.

I’d never seen him so excited!

It was about an email from one of the readers that attended an PMP online training that Dan and I had put together.

An unsolicited testimonial explaining how our training helped her pass the PMP exam.

Over the next few weeks we received many more – on social media, emails, and even video testimonials.

It was surreal!

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A unique & easy 2-in-1 PMP study approach for perfect PMP score, by Ganesh Gajare, PMP

by Shiv Shenoy

Ganesh Gajare works as Deputy Manager, Project Management at Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. and passed his PMP exam earlier this year. His innovative approach to study was something that ought to help PMP students looking for effective ways of preparing for PMP exam.

Let us hear his study approach and his PMP lessons learned in his own words.

-Shiv Shenoy, PMP

I’m working in project Management for the past 4 years and my constant urge to learn more about project management triggered my quest for PMP.

pmp ganesh gajare It took me about 5 months from decision to result, and I’m very happy to say that I cleared PMP exam in 1st attempt with Above Target in all 5 domains.

Important thing in my PMP Project was to manage 2 main stakeholders i.e my wife & my 3 year old son and keeping them engaged. 🙂 They really supported me throughout my course.

I prepared for the exam in the following way.

1. I started with RITA Book

I know. Everyone says to begin with PMBOK. I got this advice too. But I wanted to start with something simpler, easier – so I could sustain interest in study for a longer period.

As RITA is much descriptive, I used it to study process group wise. While reading I kept copy of overview of each knowledge areas from PMBOK in front of me.

This way of beginning PMP study helped me a lot.

Download a simple 21-step PMP prep study checklist from this post, for free.

2. Next, the PMBOK

I agree that PMBOK is a must-read book, even though not many people agree that it is an easy read.

My thought was that since I was able to trace most of sample questions to specific pages of PMBOK, it would make sense to study from it thoroughly in order to prepare myself to answer most questions on the exam.

I aimed to do one chapter at a time.

It was not be easy, I must say, but this narrow focus was very helpful in negotiating PMBOK. [continue reading…]

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