Friday, December 15, 2017

PMP Live Lessons – Guaranteed Pass or Your Money Back






[NEW: PMP Live Lessons (PMBOK 6th Edition) – Guaranteed Pass or Your Money Back (Link)] 
I am delighted to announce the availability of PMP® Live Lessons, a complete video course. 

 "PMP Live Lessons – Guaranteed Pass or Your Money Back"

 This is one of its kind course in the world. No one ever has given a guaranteed pass on PMP exam in one attempt with live lessons. 

I believe, anyone who aspires to be a PMP, can be a PMP. One needs right approach, proper direction and solid understanding of concepts with sufficient practice, to crack the exam. This course has been internally available since last month. The contents of this course have been used already by successful PMPs. And many aspiring PMPs are using it.

 As the PMBOK® guide 5th edition will be replaced in next 4 months (by March 26, 2018), this, I believe is your best opportunity to crack on the current edition. PMBOK guide 6th edition is heavier, longer (around 350 pages more) and will require more effort. This course also has been requested by many PMP aspirants. 
Top 9 Features: PMP Live Lessons
  1. Total Duration: 25 hours (25h 10m 15s) 
  2. Number of Videos: 550
  3. Number of Lessons: 14 (+3)
  4. Number of Questions: 2600+
  5. Number of Full Length Question Sets: 5 (total = 1000 Questions) 
  6. Practice Questions: 100 to 120 questions (average)
  7. Smart Cards: 390 Smart Cards referring the PMBOK Guide 
  8. Tips and Tricks: 100s of Tips throughout the lessons
  9. Content: Simple content and Highly interactive videos, with lots of exercises


 High Level Course Breakdown
  • Welcome (9 videos): 10m 8s [10 minutes 8 seconds]
  • Lesson 1 - About PMI-PMP Exam (16 videos): 46m 23s
  • Lesson 2 - Introduction (27 videos): 1h 22m 09s
  • Lesson 3 - Organizational Influences and Project Life Cycle (29 videos): 1h 32m 05s
  • Lesson 4 - Project Management Processes (22 videos): 1h 11m 39s
  • Lesson 5 - Project Integration Management (69 videos): 2h 36m 9s
  • Lesson 6 - Project Scope Management (47 videos): 1h 45m 21s
  • Lesson 7 - Project Time Management (67 videos): 3h 6m 18s
  • Lesson 8 - Project Cost Management (27 videos): 1h 31m 28s
  • Lesson 9 - Project Quality Management (33 videos): 1h 38m 59s
  • Lesson 10 - Project Human Resource Management (54 videos): 2h 18m 59s
  • Lesson 11 - Project Communications Management (30 videos): 1h 10m 18s
  • Lesson 12 - Project Risk Management (47 videos): 2h 26m 03s
  • Lesson 13 - Project Procurement Management (40 videos): 2h 10m 6s
  • Lesson 14 - Project Stakeholder Management (32 videos): 1h 21m 54s
  • Lesson 15 - Exercises for Examination Content Outline (ECO)
  • Lesson 16 - 5 Full Length Question and Answer Sets
  • Final Talk (1 video): 3m 1s

The details on it are available also available at:
https://managementyogi.blogspot.com/p/videos.html
What is Guaranteed Pass or Your Money Back Program?

 You go through the videos, along with detailed instructions (also in video format), and appear in the PMP exam – only one attempt. If you couldn’t clear, share your exam report. I’ll refund your entire money - no questions asked. 

 There are no little tricks, such as – “terms or conditions apply”, “appear the exam multiple times till you pass”, “** conditions (conditions with stars in the footnote in small letters)”, as you would have seen in many places. What you see (and reading in this blog post) is what you get.

 The premise is simple.
Give the exam - one attempt. You pass and you are a PMP. You win. 
In case you couldn’t clear the exam, your full money will be with you. You still win.  
Applicability and Validity
  • PMBOK Guide – PMBOK Guide 5th edition
  • Valid Date for Guarantee – Till March 25, 2018 


Detailed Course Breakdown
The detailed course breakdown is shown below (Embedded PDF). It details on hours of learning, number of videos and practice questions, along with smart cards. You can scroll or open in larger screen by clicking the arrow on right in the embedded frame, to see the content. 



If you want to buy or have any other question, please send an email to managementyogi@gmail.com.

 For sample videos of this course, please refer:

You can also see the sample videos in a playlist. They are from the Youtube Channel of ManagementYogi.



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Monday, December 11, 2017

PMI-ACP Success Story: Innovation Games Make The Difference!

By Suresh Juturu, PMP, ACP, CSM


Introduction
I have earned my PMP® credential and wanted to adopt the agile practices in my work place for few projects, where requirements churn is high and they have to be continuously prioritized. Also, it has become essential to become master in Agile concepts. Hence, I decided to go for the ACP® certification.

 ACP Coaching Experience
The 3-day workshop by Satya was very much informative about the agile methodologies and concepts as well as agile planning and contracts and many more other details. The sessions not only covered the topics from an exam point of view, but also covered vast areas in terms of various agile approaches and myths associated with Agile development.

 Satya was very much open to discuss various real-time problems we face in the real world. These were eye openers for many of us on how agile is really being mixed up in various organizations.

 In the beginning session of the first day, this was mentioned: “All participants will remember the agile values and principles by the end of the program and also can say it out on their own”! Indeed, as mentioned, I was pleasantly surprised to see that all of us were able to tell the agile values and principles easily. The TIPS & TRICKS provided by Satya ensured that we did.
The key takeaways from the ACP Coaching were these - just understand the concepts clearly and discuss as much as you can. These will be your keys to crack the ACP exam, rather than reading through various books many times.

 Own Study
I am a big fan of combined study;-) . As usual four of us had attended the ACP classroom training by Satya and post the session, the four of us sat together for consecutive days for exam preparation – mostly done before the exam date.

 Cracking the internal/online sample tests also gave a lot of confidence before appearing for the actual PMI® test.

 In my view, the studying the book is just to gain the confidence on agile concepts. To crack the exam, you must discuss, understand, listen to others in the class. These will help you a lot in answering the questions in the actual exam. The questions in the exam are real time oriented.

 Two important things which I would like to share are noted below.

 1) Being Agile vs Doing Agile – It is very important to apply Transparency, Inspection and Adaption, to become agile.

 2) Innovation Games – What do we do different when we are facing continuous failures in Sprint deliveries? Retrospective is the answer by many. But, it is not just about this one ceremony, but how effectively you are doing agile development, matters a lot. Innovation games help you to move forward in the right direction.
• Remember the Future – Ask your team to imagine that it’s sometime in the future and that they’ve been using your product almost continuously between now and the future date. Then ask - what product will make them happy?
BEFORE (and classically without the game): “What the product should do?”
AFTER (as part of the game): Context + “What will the product have done?”

 • Speed boat/Sail boat – This is very interesting game to identify the blockers (rocks), risks (anchors) and opportunities (wind) for a given program in this form.

ACP Exam Experience
In ACP exam, there will be questions with roles mentioned (as in the PMP exam, like project manager, team leader etc.) along with terms such as Agile expert, Agile evangelist. These may confuse you a bit. So, be prepared to answer such questions. If you appear for mock exams, you can answer such kind of questions. 

 For me, the exam duration was sufficient to answer 120 questions in the first 90 minutes. I utilized the rest of the time to review the book-marked questions and rethink on them.

 Suggestions for ACP Aspirants
Dos 
- Attend class room training for ACP which will give you enough push to get the enthusiasm and tips to clear the exam. 
- I encourage taking guidance from Satya and get his feedback by the end of the course to assess your understanding and prepare accordingly after the course.
Don’ts
- Please don’t stick to one single reference book, rather refer few materials and discuss more with your colleagues and try to apply for understanding the same.

 Conclusion
Getting certification is just one part of the goal. Applying what you have learned when you have the right fit or opportunity, will give exceptional value. Key here is identifying when to apply the agile values or principles or the techniques that you learned. One should not apply agile approaches everywhere just because you are agile certified.

 Brief Profile
Suresh Juturu, PMP, ACP, CSM, Project Manager in an MNC, Bangalore.




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Wednesday, December 06, 2017

PMP Success Story: A Good Coach, Dedication and Determination Are Keys to Success

By Naveen Kumar, PMP


Introduction
I’ve been in Project management field for so many years, and had a goal to crack the PMP® exam, but was never able to put a dedicated effort to prepare for the exam. It kept on dragging for 1 to 2 years. Finally, in year 2017, I took it as a firm personal goal and committed to crack in 2017 and not delay it any further.

 PMP Coaching Experience
Having Satya as a coach very much helped me as his approach to get anyone prepared for the PMP exam is very systematic, to the point and easy to understand in comparison to reading any book on your own. 
I was fortunate to have Satya as my coach for PMP exam. I believe you are more than 50% prepared for the exam after having gone through 35 hours of training with Satya. Rest is your own efforts in self-study. Satya is a great person, mentor and coach.
This PMP classroom training is very much essential in addition to your own preparation for the exam. The key take-aways are:
  • You will have a great coach to get you prepared for the exam effectively and efficiently.
  • Without having concepts clear in your mind, it will be very difficult to crack the exam. This class room training helps in having the concepts clear in a short period of time.
  • Prepares you with a systematic and concise way to approach the exam.
  • The tips covered in this class are extremely helpful in passing the PMP exam.

 Own Study
It took me around 4-5 months of dedicated preparation which included study of around 2 hours daily on week days and around 4-5 hours over the weekends. I read the following books:
  • The PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition by Project Management Institute (PMI®) 
  • I Want To Be A PMP book by Satya Narayan Dash
  • PMP Exam Prep by Rita Mulcahy 

In addition to these books, I also completed a lot of mock exams from “I Want To Be A PMP” book, “PMP exam prep Questions & Answers by Christopher Scordo”, “HeadFirst book” and few other mock exams before appearing for the PMP exam.  
Book Review - I Want To Be A PMP
I bought the “I Want To Be A PMP” book as I got to know from the class room training. The way it’s written is very easy to understand all the concepts, has many tips that really help and is a very interactive book which makes you feel as if Satya is talking to you directly, while you are reading it. Also, this book is an online version which is kept always up-to-date so it will reflect the latest content.

 It also has many videos to explain the important topics of the exam and are explained in the easiest possible way. Anyone can understand them very easily. This book comes with 3 question sets with increasing difficulty level which really raises the bar before you actually appear for the exam. This book and question sets holistically equips you to be ready the PMP exam. You feel much more confident to write the exam after 2-3 readings of this book.
PMP Exam Experience
I scheduled my PMP exam around a month before the exam date in Nov-2017. My strategy was to complete all the 200 questions in the first 3 hours. But I could not complete as I was spending too much time on each question during first one hour (could complete only 35 questions). After that I increased my pace and was marking the unsure questions for review in the end. 

 I could complete all the 200 questions in 3 hours 45 minutes. I reviewed most of the marked questions in those 15 minutes and corrected the answers wherever it should be. There were a lot of situational questions that were tricky that will really test your thorough understanding of the concepts. 

 “I Want To Be A PMP” book really helped for my preparation. There were few mathematical questions mostly around cost management and schedule management areas. 

 I’ve three key suggestions:
  • Maintain speed during the exam. Don’t get stuck with one question for more than 2 minutes. If you are not sure, mark it with your best answer and move on. Review it in the end if time permits.
  • Attempt the very long questions (mainly questions that are one full screen long) in the end. Reading and understanding the question itself may take you over 2 minutes, hence better to mark them and attempt in the end.
  • Although it depends on person to person, but taking more than one break during the exam would mean you will lose at least 10-12 minutes easily. I took one break during the exam. That means you will at least lose 5-6 minutes because Prometric will need to perform the checking procedure, signing procedure again after you come back from the break. Consider this aspect while you plan your strategy for the exam.

There can be disturbance during the exam (from noise of keyboards used by other candidates taking exam). Prometric centre has sound proof ear masks that you can use during the exam to avoid the outside noise. It will help you to concentrate more.  

 Suggestions for PMP Aspirants
Dos 
  • Get your concepts very clear and thorough before you appear for the exam.
  • Every day reading for at least 1-2 hours definitely helps to prepare for the exam. Don’t allow the rhythm to break as it can slow down your preparation or you may need to start again.
  • Having a coach is really important and keep sharing with him your preparation progress and follow his guidance which ensures you are on the right track.

Don’ts
  • Don’t break the rhythm in your preparation even 30 minutes in day of reading some topic helps.
  • Don’t delay in submitting the application and scheduling your exam. If you are not serious about the exam, you will not clear it.
  • Don’t allow any confusion to be there in your mind on the concepts. If you have doubt, immediately clarify with your coach or from the PMBOK guide.

Conclusion
Getting PMP certified is a great experience and accomplishment. After this, the real benefit would be when you apply these practices in actual project management and ensure continuous improvement.

 Brief Profile
Naveen Kumar, Program Manager, around 16 years of experience in hardware and firmware project management.


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