I would like to thank you for the many comments, tips and suggestions to the previous two parts of the article. The second part of the post was particularly popular, it compares Certification: PRINCE2, PMI (PMP) and the IPMA. As promised (though much later) the next part of the [...]

The second part of the FAQ about earning PDUs and PMP recertification. Please enjoy it, I hope it will help you earn required numbers of PDUs to renew ourr PMP certificate.

At the special request of my friends I’m presentin a post about how to renew the PMP certification, and in particular how to obtain required by the PMI – 60 PDUs credits.

The most important formal conditions to be met in order to extend the validity of PMP certification (without need to re-testing) are: [...]

Finally, I’ve got some time to finish the table witha comparioson of the most popular project management certifications families: PMP, Prince2 and IPMA.

The following table compares 3 certificates, you can also download the full version of the table (CAPM, PMP, PgMP, Prince2 Foundation, Prince 2 Practitioner, IPMA-D, IPMA-C, IPMA-B, IPMA-A certificates)

There is a very good time of the year to make a New Year’s resolution. One resolution in the professional life can be: ‘to obtain a certificate in project management’. But you can easily find several different certificates that are issued by different organizations. Which one to choose? I hope that, this article will help you [...]

Last month I tried to answer the following question: “how to win people to project management, and show the value provided by project management”. While writing article doubts appeared, how can anyone be sure that project management contribute any value?

Last week I got an answer to that [...]

One of the many problems which PMOs / P3Os are facing is how to convince middle and operational management to the idea of project management.

Not so long ago I wrote about OGC plans to create the P3O standard, whose goal is to describe work conducted by project management offices. But what does the modern project management office look like? On behalf of PMI, Brain Hobbs from the University of Quebec did research on [...]

In the near future, the name of your project management office  may be changed to the P3O – Portfolio, Programme and Project Office.

Last February PMI published a draft version of PMBOK 4th edition. Everyone interested in project management could freely read this publication and put forward the suggestions. The final version of PMBOK standard will be published by this year’s end. What are the latest proposals of PMI?

When creating its MS Project Microsoft has “forgotten” about the free application for viewing files created in it (there is no such software like MS Project Viewer, in contrast to MS Word / Excel / PowerPoint Viewer). Many companies are purchasing expensive licenses of MS Project just to be able to view a [...]