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Have you guys registered for our free PM Course as yet?. http://pmacademy.in/free_PM_course_sign_up/

pmacademy "Good examples in explaining the terms with scenarios that enhances the understanding of the concept as well as answering the scenarios based questions"

Are you preparing for certification? Would it be useful to get insights into your practice performance across the PMBOK Domains, Process and Knowledge areas, so you know where to focus your efforts?

PM Academy proudly announces the launch of the Performance Dashboard for its Prep e-learning course.

If it is not documented, it doesn't exist. As long as information is retained in someone's head, it is vulnerable to loss. - Louis Fried, 1992

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Ruben Blades

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Effective Project Management - A short comic story depicting the the 7 pillars of effective ex*****on. http://lnkd.in/bb9D8tY

Effective Project Management - Explore the dynamics of effective project ex*****on that is adaptive, collaborative along with action required of leaders, who seek to master those dynamics.

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PM Academy Website with new comic stories, books and free 8 PDU course is now live and ready for enrollments. Do create your account on our new LMS and activate the free course as well as access white/research papers.

Risk is exciting but management is boring - Keith Baxter

This comic requires dialogs and a caption. Can you connect the scene to a Project Situation, add a dialog and a caption?

Once again we have gifts and goodies for the best one.

PMA Comic Caption Contest # 1

Friends, thank you for participating in the first ever caption contest of PMA. Hope you had as much fun writing them as we had in reading them.

It was indeed a challenging task choosing "The One" and our vote goes to, Stacey McKay. Congrats Stacey!

Can anybody give a caption for this comic along with dialog?

There is a surprise for the best one!

“The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.”
Robert A. Heinlein

Wish someone would explain their requirements in plain English? Collecting requirements is at times a complex discipline and it boils down to helping stakeholders answer simple questions.

Our favorite question to stakeholders is “Does everyone understand what we’re building and why?”

What's your favorite requirement collating questions?

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Is there is a difference between Project and Product Quality? If yes, what is it?

How do manage your work life balance? Do add a comment

Risk, the effect of uncertainty on objectives.

Add missing components to conventional project management practices, says Dr. Aaron Shenhar. Do you agree?

There is more than just being a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). "The importance of focussing on Business Results and how Strategic Project Leadership® (SPL) is adding new and missing components to the Conventional Project...

Have you ever experienced a scope baseline that has not changed during the project ex*****on lifecycle?

Can conventional measures of Project Success determine the achivement of Business Results?

Hear Dr. Aaron Shenhar, one of the world's leading scholar on project management speak on the multi dimensional criteria's of success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WcQB1fa65M

Can conventional measures of Project Success determine the achivement of Business Results? "You can't manage what you don't measure. The Traditional Project Management Measures (Scope, Time and Money) limit the definition of Project Success. Strate...

"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said" - Vaclav Havel

“If you don’t invest in risk management, it doesnt matter what business you’re in, it’s a risky business,” Gary Cohn - President Goldman Sachs.

One cannot ignore change management challenges which is part of most business transformation initiative. Project Manager practitioners need to be aware of the change management practice.

Do go through the blog and at the end of the blog there is a link to Free Download for The Practice Guide on Change Management for limited time by PMI

Effect Change, Drive Business - Voices on Project Management More times than not, change leads to new competitive environments -- and project managers who are able to adapt quickly tend to survive and capitalize. In such an environment, one of the most important tools a project manager has is the ability to effect change to drive an organization's competitive...

Most project meetings experience problems including: lack of direction, poor accountability, lack of collaboration, pushing personal agendas, poor communication.....

Hit like if you agree and have experienced such meetings and add a comment of how you deal with such meeting?

As a Manager I know the difference between and " ". Hit Like if you are managing Deliverables and not !!

All estimates go haywire when you get what you get as resources to work with. How do you estimate project duration and deadlines without having resources on board?

One of the challenge we face in projects is knowing how much planning is good one and how to deal with emergencies that pops up like popcorn

How are you managing in the world of shrinking budgets, with lack of credible benefit estimation given the level of uncertainty and history of failed realization?

Do you agree that most projects are underestimated to ensure that they get approved. Well, research says yes.

Two years after project completion

Did you miss any deadline today? Hit like if you hate bosses who chase deadlines over outcomes

How do you manage stakeholders like these and get any work done? Hit like if you have some like them around your work place.

Managing Projects is more than just processes and paper. Hit Like if you agree