Why Should You Do PMP Training Again? I received a mail from one of my erstwhile students. He wanted to know if he should attend PMP training again. Here is an excerpt from the mail. I taken training from you in **** 2012 and had certificate. Can I use these PDU as the qualification to…
PMP Certification has a 3 years validity period. You need 60 PDUs to renew the certification. The PDUs have to be collected and used within 3 years; otherwise they expire. 35 contact hours have a lifelong validity. You can get contact hours certificate by joining any project management training course and use it to apply…
Project Time Management Definition & Terminology Project Time Management is a subset of Project Management. It includes knowledge, tools & techniques and skills that are required to ensure the timely completion of a project. Project Time Management is one of the essential pieces of Project Management. Some people claim that it is 50% of the…
There main difference between effort, duration and elapsed time is that effort refers to the amount of exertion or work done to complete a task, duration refers to the length of (working) time to complete a task, and elapsed time is the total amount of (working and non-working) time that passes between start of an…
A competent Project Manager can portray every Defect as a Change Request. An intelligent Client can introduce every Change Request as a Defect. I started managing projects long time ago. We used to have lot of fun in the earlier years. During that period, we used joke about defects and changes. Don’t get me wrong….
What is a Gantt Chart? Is Gantt Chart same as a Scheduling Bar Chart? What is a Time Scaled Logic Diagram? Is it same as Gantt chart? What is a Time Scaled Network Diagram? How is it different from Gantt Chart? Project Schedule can be represented in many ways. In one of my previous articles,…
What is Work Breakdown Structure? Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is one of the most misused term in Project Management. It can mean different things to different professionals. The meaning could be Organization Chart, Bar Chart (popularly known as Gantt Chart) or Roles & Responsibilities Chart. It is important to define WBS before we proceed further….
Lead and Lag Demystified There are many terms that perturb project management professionals. Lead and Lag are two such terms. I interact with many professionals on a regular basis. I often find that many of them are not fully aware of meaning of these terms. Even though they know the correct definitions of these terms,…
Leads and Lags – Definitions, Explanations & Examples Leads and Lags are essential for making a good project schedule. They are the basic building blocks of scheduling. Many scheduling experts don’t use them. Instead, they often apply (incorrect) alternatives. In my opinion, Leads and Lags are easy to use and implement. They should always be…
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Start To Finish is a logical relationship (or dependency) in which a successor activity cannot finish until its predecessor activity has started. Start to Finish (SF) is one of the four activity relationships of project management. These are used while preparing project schedule. The other three relationships are: Finish to Start (FS) Start to Start…
