.

Dear folks,

I got PMP certification in Jan 2016, it was a nice experience. Preparation for exam is a journey that helped me bring my project management skills and knowledge to next level. When I started preparation for exam, I asked this question to myself – Why do I need PMP certification?

The answer was personal growth. So if this certification is for personal growth then I will have to learn and expend my knowledge to become better project manager.

I am in project management profession for eight years now and have completed dozens of successful projects; my mind was trained to perform project management activities based on my experience. However I knew that basing experience to prepare for PMP wasn’t going to cut it. Training my mind to think like a “PMI project manager” was a challenge.

People who are in project management domain know there are several ways to perform project management activities. All of them may be right, but how do I choose the best course of action? This is why I needed to study PMBOK thoroughly.

Since then I have found that weather you have 20 years of project management experience or 3 years PMI will test your skills and knowledge, and it will not be an easy exam to prepare.

After my training classes I started studying PMBOK 5 guide. It was a good experience to know the details of project management processes and knowledge areas, however it was difficult to memories all process and ITTOs. Therefore I took a test project and started planning activities exactly as mentioned in PMBOK guide. After completion of the this test project PMBOK guide seemed much easier as compared to the first time. [continue reading…]

Please click here to get ‘Master Your Scope Management Concepts’ book for free.

Over 1237+ people have accessed previous books in the series for free.

Please note that this book is available for free for 48hrs only.

If you liked any of these books (which I hope you do!) please write a couple of sentences of your honest feedback on the Amazon page (Scroll down to ‘write a customer review’ button and click it).

If the book did not live up to your expectation, please do write to me so I can further improve it.

I am giving away this book for free just for today and tomorrow (3 Oct, 4 Oct PST time), so please hurry  and download! 

Happy studying and have a great week,
Shiv

PS: If you think your friends can benefit from this book, please share this page in your social network. I appreciate you!

I trust you’ve had a chance to get yesterday’s book Master Your Project Management Basic Concepts for free.

It’s amazing to see over 280 people have downloaded the book in 2 days. Thank you, if you were one of them!

Today I am giving away the 3rd book in the 12-book series, ‘Master Your Integration Management Concepts’ Kindle book.

All you do is click on the link below and get it by paying absolutely nothing. [continue reading…]

Here’s your chance to download the second of 12 book series, “Master Your Project Management Basic Concepts“, Kindle book for FREE!

I am giving away this book for a 2-day period – whole day Thursday 28-Sept-2016 to 29-Sept-2016 PST time.

Click here to download ‘Project Management Basic Concepts’ Kindle book for free!

All you need to do is buy for zero units (dollars, pounds, rupees – based on your country) and you can read it immediately on cloud reader (reader.amazon.com) or the free Kindle reading apps for PC/Mac/Smartphone/Tablet (install from here). [continue reading…]

Initial prep

I planned for PMP in the December 2014 and first thing I did was bought HeadFirst book, because I like to keep things simple.

Headfirst explains the things in easy way. However it does not cover all the topics for the exam but give u basic understanding of the concepts.

Gaining momentum

After going through HeadFirst book twice with slow pace, in December 2015 I enrolled for the KnowledgeWoods training and also joined PMExamSmartNotes.com’s Facebook community page. That is when I hit the top gear for my studies.

Post training, I reviewed all the concepts once again from the training material given by KW and then started taking mock exams.

It is important to take the mock exam but it is more important to review the questions and answers as well to get the understanding of the concepts.

I observed my weakness in certain areas like Quality and Procurement knowledge areas, and revised it.

If I had any doubts during mock tests, I would refer Rita’s book and PMBOK to gain the confidence on the topic. [continue reading…]