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PMI Membership for Professionals and Students: Is it Worth It?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

So you’re considering joining PMI® as a member or a student member? Closely followed by: “So is it worth joining PMI?”. I’ve been a member of PMI for many years, so I feel I can confidentially give you the insider information! What are the benefits of being a PMI member? How much does PMI membership cost?

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PMI Education Contact Hours and PDUs: Your Essential Guide

Online PM Courses

The PMI is currently the most widely used source of professional project management accreditation. To win your coveted CAPM, PMP, or PMI-ACP, to will need to chalk up enough education Contact Hours. The PMI has deliberately chosen the term ‘contact hours’ It might have chose ‘education hours’ but it did not.

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AI Assistants for Project Managers

Leading Answers

Kevin Kelly, futurist and founding executive editor of Wired magazine, says in his TED talk: “ Everything that we have electrified, we are now going to cognify ”. Agile tool vendor Atlassian, already provide project assistants that help with budgets, estimates, and sprint management. Higher Value Work.

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AI Assistants for Project Managers

Leading Answers

Kevin Kelly, futurist and founding executive editor of Wired magazine, says in his TED talk: “ Everything that we have electrified, we are now going to cognify ”. Agile tool vendor Atlassian, already provide project assistants that help with budgets, estimates, and sprint management. Higher Value Work.

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Why Finding a Mentor Is Hard (and What to Do about It)

LiquidPlanner

Budget cuts have meant that there are fewer formal corporate mentoring schemes. Pick one aimed at project management, like PMI, or one aligned with your industry—IT, engineering, education, etc. Between YouTube, online tutorials, blogs, magazines, books, professional bodies, and your existing communities, you can learn a lot yourself.

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12 Steps to Creating a Successful Project Scope

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This year’s State of Project Management Survey reveals that only 23% of organizations complete projects on time, with just 43% staying within budget. This, according to PMI , is when a project suffers “the uncontrolled expansion of project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources”. Manage project budgets.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. These things.