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Stop, Look and Succeed
with Your Project

by Eileen McMonagle When a project feels like it is getting out of control, don’t try to move faster with it.  Now is the time to stop.  Even though it may feel like you should be doing the opposite, stop and really look at where…
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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…
Sleeping and Learning – Using Sleep Patterns to Process Information Better
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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…
Sleeping and Learning – Using Sleep Patterns to Process Information Better
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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…