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Do Simple Projects Need Less Planning?

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: So, you’ve been assigned a “simple” project. In fact, it’s so simple there’s really no need for a formal project plan, a charter or any formal methodology for that matter. You feel good. Day 2: the business…
Sleeping and Learning – Using Sleep Patterns to Process Information Better
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A Different Approach to Practice Testing for PMP Certification

by Darrell G. Stiffler, PMP: If you are preparing to take the Project Management Professional (PMP) examination, I have an idea I would like to share. You have probably been told the best way to prepare for the exam is to take as many…
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Mulenburg’s “Meetings As Projects”

by Dr. Gerald Mulenburg, PMP: I once headed up an organization for a year while their chief was off getting a masters degree in business. I soon learned that the organization had an obsessive-meeting-compulsive-disorder. It seemed like…
Sleeping and Learning – Using Sleep Patterns to Process Information Better
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Sleeping and Learning – Using
Sleep Patterns to Process
Information Better

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: In the book The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, Tony Schwartz discusses many little known facts about sleep and learning, and the effect of too little sleep. In this post, I will discuss the duration of the sleep…
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Cross Footing and Run Rate Exhaustion, Part 2

By Craig Covello, PMP: In part one of this two-part series, we looked at cross footing to find spreadsheet errors. This month, we look at a possible early warning sign of overspending. Run Rate Exhaustion Every project has two primary…
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Quality Planning – Is It Really Worth It? (part 2)

by Bruce Beer, PMP: In Part 1, we introduced the difficulty of trying to create a quality plan on complex projects without historicals. Here, we complete the series by discussing the objectives and components of a quality plan. What is…