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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can earn PDUs (professional development units) for ongoing certification renewal, such as for the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, from reading. Reading is a fast way to earn PDUs but it needs to be relevant to the certification you hold. How many PDUs can you get for reading? PDU claim: 4 hours. PDU claim: 9 hours.

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Business Resilience: An Overview

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. Some other less obvious but equally important benefits are: Increasing productivity Adopting a ‘one team’ approach across the organization Delivering in a predictable fashion (every PMO leader wants this!)

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2020

ProjectManager.com

It’s a great time to further your education, keep up on your certification and get a chance to rub shoulders with others in your field from all over the world. Attendees can earn up to 12 PDUs towards their PMP certification. The PMO 2020 Conference. PMO Symposium. Global Scrum Gathering. May 11-13, New York, NY.

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Bridging the PM Competency Gap [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There is no shortage of certification courses (and if you’re looking for support in that area here are some suggestions of reputable suppliers ). Do your colleagues – especially the newer ones? In my experience many companies don’t invest in their project management people, at least not in the right areas. Do You Need This Book?

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How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It can serve as a baseline, but most project managers ought to layer some sort of agile certification on top of it. Bill Dow , PMP, is a recognised expert in developing and managing Project Management Offices (PMOs.) It takes much more than attendance on a course to create sustained changes in performance,… Click To Tweet.

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How Much Time is Required For PMP Exam Preparation?

Taskque

After 4 months too late to sustain effort and focus.”. Anand Vijayakumar , A certified Project Manager with the PMP Certification for over 5 years at Quora says: “There is no one standard – how much time you should study/prepare. I got better because of my certification process. Head First Labs from O’Reilly Media, Inc.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO. And so, it’s that for a couple years, that group reorganized and I kind of find myself back in a regular PMO and I’m like, that’s not cool, right?

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