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Monday, May 24, 2021

Course Review: RMP Live Lessons–A Must-Have Course if You Are Serious About Risk Management

By V Satya Viswanadha Raju, RMP, PMP




Why this Course?

After completing my PMP certification, in less than a year the COVID pandemic started. The current challenges and risks that were evolving in my project along the current pandemic. 

My organization's approach has also changed with respect to risk management. It made me think more on Risk Management, primarily identification, planning and mitigation. 

That has attracted me more towards pursuing and earning my Risk Management Professional (RMP®) credential. I was not fortunate to have the RMP Live Lessons course, but got access to this course later. 

After going through this course, I felt this:

This video course is awesome. I wish I had this course earlier.


RMP Live Lessons: Unique Selling Point

The RMP Live Lessons course will definitely help the individuals in understanding the importance of changing the thought processes about Risks and Risk Management. It’s more important than earning the RMP credential. 

Your whole perspective will change when you start going through the videos. Taking the RMP Live Lessons course will help you think about the future state of the project and help you run your project by identifying and mitigating the risks.


RMP Live Lessons: Main Advantages 

By taking this course, you will have both broad level understanding and deeper perspectives on areas of risk management, weighing the risks in your project and prioritizing them, along with planning and mitigating the risks.  The course covers the RMP exam fully and will make you prepared for the unseen situations.

Some of you might think the RMP credential is not really needed. But taking the RMP exam will help the individuals to come out of the regular thought process of project management and keeps you ahead in handling the unexpected and unprecedented situations that can affect a project. This course will change your perspectives on risk management. 

RMP Live Lessons: Key Features

I’ve gone through the course of RMP Live Lessons, Guaranteed Pass for over 30 days. I’ve gone through all the videos. 

I found all videos to be crisp and clear. In my view, these are some of the key features of this course:

  • The course is truly UNIQUE. It has all the blends and flavors that will be covered from the PMI’s Practice Standard for Risk Management, The Standard for Risk in Portfolios, Programs and Projects and the PMBOK Guide, the latest edition.
  • It also covers new contents which are not available anywhere such as a large set of exercises in video format and a number of flow diagram exercises. 
  • There are a number of Lessons (total 16) and an exhaustive set of videos. Among these lessons, I particularly liked the following ones the most.
    • Lesson of Risk Identification, 
    • Lesson of Quantitative Risk Analysis, and 
    • Lesson of Risk Response Planning. 
      These will be very important for your RMP exam.
  • Every lesson ends with a number of practice questions. It makes you think differently and tackle different real time scenarios to overcome the risks. Remember that most of the RMP exam questions will be situational.
  • For my RMP exam, I had referred Satya Sir’s RMP book. This video course goes much deeper into the topics and explanations. Satya Sir mentions to read the PMI’s Risk Management related Standards, but in my view this course is sufficient for the RMP exam. 
  • In my view, you need not refer any other content (only have to browse), if you proceed thoroughly with this course.
  • There are extensive sets of videos on areas such as Monte Carlo Simulations, Latin Hypercube Simulations which will be very important for your RMP exam.
  • Concepts such as Risk Attitude Spectrum, Probabilistic Analysis are thoroughly explained. 
  • In total there are 5 full-length questions – each having 170 questions with answers. These will prepare you very well for the RMP exam. 

After going through the course, I feel it's the best in the industry. I strongly believe that though there will be other courses, the BEST will be only one, and it's this course.

Conclusion

I’ve cleared the RMP exam in my first attempt and I found it to be more difficult than the PMP exam. My exam experience is published here. I want to emphasize that help I received from Satya sir in clarifying my doubts, guiding me to think differently about risks. I cleared the exam because of him.

The RMP Live Lessons, Guaranteed Pass course is a complete video course. Hence, it stands far apart from the text content of a book. 

You just have to watch the videos, and do the exercises. We are in a world where time is more important than money. If you are serious about the RMP exam, you should not think about the money part. Because, it's the best and you can have the access whenever and wherever you want. There is no access limit or stipulated access time. It also comes with full moneyback guarantee! 

The course is so well-articulated that you will find true value for your money. It’s worth every penny of yours.


Brief Profile: 

V Satya Viswanadha Raju, RMP, PMP

Operations Manager – DXC Technology

 



Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Course Review: MS Project 2016 Live Lessons – A Practical Guide for PMBOK and A Must Do Course for PMPs

By V Satya Viswanadha Raju, PMP




Why this Course?
I’ve been in the information technology sector for over twelve years and my overall industry experience is nearly fifteen years. In these years, I’ve seen many Project Managers completely schedule their work with Microsoft Excel for each and every work package or activities. This should ideally be done with Microsoft Project software, a specially designed tool for project managers. I guess project managers use manual scheduling or tools like Excel, because they may not be knowing the power and utility of MS Project software. Another aspect can be lack of skills and application of knowledge using MS Project software.

Post my Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, I was looking for a hands-on tool which can help in understanding on various areas in a project – schedule management, resource management, resource levelling, crashing, fast tracking etc. I also wanted to implement my learning from the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and its applicability in real-world projects. This motivated me to take up the course of MS Project Live 2016 Lessons.


Features in this Course
First and foremost, the most vital aspect of MS Project 2016 Live Lessons is this: It covers the most important functions that every project manager performs in his or her daily work-life. The job of a project manager involves a number of activities and this course covers them all.
  • There are many features in this course which I really liked. They are: 
    • Schedule planning, management and control. 
    • Resource pooling, multi resource plan management.
    • Generating reports from MS Project to presentable formats such as MS PowerPoint (e.g., the Timeline View can be directly exported) or formats such as excel because not every stakeholder wants to have the reports in MS Project.  
  • Another key feature of this course is this: it covers many theoretical aspects of the PMBOK guide in a practical way. Here are some instances where I found my understanding of the PMBOK guide perfectly applied with a practical tool. 
    • You will know how to create an end-to-end schedule with tasks or activities, milestones, dependencies and loading of resources.
    • You will know how to calculate costs for the project and end-to-end budget of the project. 
    • Resources drive both the schedule and cost and the theory part of the PMP learnings can be applied in resource management areas of this course. 
    • You will know how to track and monitor the project with variances
  • Every lesson of this course ends with a practical and a set of quiz questions. This will help you not only assess your understanding, but also try out the various exercises. In my earlier course for PMP 35 Contact Hours Online the approach was to have exercises after theory. Here in MS Project 2016 Live Lessons course as well, you have the exact same approach.
  • This course also covers a number of advanced concepts. The ones I liked are:
    • Earned Value Management (EVM).
    • Calculation of Estimate to Complete (ETC), a metric available in EVM, but not in MS Project. This you can easily create. 
    • Critical Path Analysis (CPA) and its impacts etc.

Conclusion
I strongly recommend this course as a must go course after PMP. 

I would strongly say and believe that my PMP course was 100% complete after completing this course.

Mr. Satya Narayan Dash and his site Management Yogi, again live up-to my expectations. Indeed, it lives up-to the name. The support has been throughout and I also received constant help. Thank you.

Brief Profile: 
V Satya Viswanadha Raju, PMP: I work as an information technology professional with DXC Technology, Bangalore, India.