Achieving the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be a significant milestone in a project manager's career. The journey to obtaining this prestigious certification can be challenging, but with the right guidance and support, it is achievable. In this blog post, I’ll share the inspiring stories and testimonials of five students who, under my mentorship, overcame their struggles and triumphed to attain PMP certification. Their experiences highlight the impact of my coaching methods and dedication to my students.

One of the major challenges faced by project managers preparing for the PMP exam is time management. With busy professional and personal lives, finding the time to study and absorb the vast amount of information required for the exam can be daunting. Procrastination is an enormous problem for so many and I call it ‘failure to launch.’ I combat this with a personalized approach to ensure that each student's study plan is tailored to their individual needs and ...

Agile Project Management originated from the Agile Manifesto that was developed in February 2001. The manifesto was developed by a group of software developers who came together to find a more efficient alternative to documentation-driven, heavyweight software development processes. The Agile Manifesto outlined four key values that Agile adheres to. These values include individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change.

Agile is essentially adaptive and allows each member of the team to contribute to the decisions that need to be made along the way and to influence the direction of the project. Agile relies on the individual team members and their expertise and commitment to the project, rather than on processes. This means that Agile requires the team to be flexible, open to change, and willing to work collaboratively to achieve the best possible outcome.

Agile methods use a sprint-based approach, with work broken down into sprints, whi...

I decided that after many years of running projects, I was going to become PMP certified. My belief was that with all of my experience, achieving certification would be a relatively easy endeavor. Wrong!! Attending my PMP prep class, I quickly realized that my plan to utilize my previous job experience as the foundation for passing the exam, would lead to certain failure.

I determined that if I was to be successful in passing the exam, I needed to learn and to start thinking of project management according to the PMBOK standards. I committed to learning and understanding the material, and also focused on what approach to use to prepare and pass the exam.

There are so many suggested approaches to preparing for the PMP exam. How do you determine what is the best method to select? Understanding that my preferred learning style is a blend of visual, verbal, and social learning helped me identify and select education components that would facilitate my exam preparation.

After evaluating ...