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Project Planning vs. PM – Spot The Difference [video blog]

by Jennifer Bridges, PMP (formerly, Jennifer Whitt)

Hello and welcome to our whiteboard session today on why project planning isn’t project management. Have you ever wondered the difference? Well, it’s two terms that often get misused in the marketplace, and we wanted to take the time to distinguish the difference.

Project Planning vs. PM – Spot The Difference

If you look on the board here, we have a diagram and it’s actually referenced from “The Project Management Body of Knowledge,” the Fourth Edition by PMI, the Project Management Institute. They have a great diagram there that distinguishes the two this way.

If you look at the diagram, we have the start of the project and the end of the project and a lot of things going on in between. There are five process groups identified by the Project Management Institute. There are the initiating processes, there are planning processes, executing processes, monitoring and controlling processes, and the closing processes. That’s five project management process groups here that make up the whole life cycle of the project. Learn More »

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Why Micro-Management is Bad

by Jennifer Bridges, PMP (formerly, Jennifer Whitt)

I like to go to my good friend Google to see what words really mean because as we know, there are terms that get misused. A good definition of micro-manager is, according to viewer votes on Yahoo!, a person who is controlling and has to have their hands into everything. They do not allow for others to handle anything without being scrutinized. Sound familiar? Have you ever been micro-managed, or worse yet, do your team members ask you to stop micro-managing them? If you are not sure, here are some the indicators that you might be guilty of doing this to your team directly from my own experience and those I work with:

If you hear people just blatantly say, “Stop micro-managing me!” It’s probably a good cue that you are.
If you are the one always asking, “What are you doing all day?” to your team members.
If you ask the same question over and over again like we did when we were children, “are we there yet, are we there yet?” only now it’s, “What’s the status? What’s the status now?”
If you pick holes in everything that someone does.
If you take work back and finish it yourself and do not allow for others to make decisions without consulting you first.

If these sound familiar, they may indicate that you are micro-managing. Why is this so bad? We as project managers like process, so let me just lay out a simple process that shows what the end result of micro-managing just one person. Learn More »

How to Handle Life’s Challenges

by Drew Stevens, Ph.D.

I just finished one of my recent Practice Acceleration seminars. When the roller coaster of life seems to threaten your ideals and you are under despair remember the following:

1. Ignore unsolicited feedback.

2. Remain close to those who will support you.

3. Find the power of the mastermind.

4. Failure is an option; use it as fuel to accelerate the practice.

5. Check your baggage and compartmentalize issues.

6. Visualize success; you are a gift from above and God does not allow failure.

7. Live each moment in life, tomorrow may never come.

If you found these tips from Drew Stevens, Ph.D. of value and are a PMP looking to earn PMI PDUs, you might be interested in his self-paced, downloadable courses at PDUs2Go.com.

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PMXPO Was Another Huge Success Thanks To All of You!

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May 2013

Volume 5 | Issue 5

On April 25^th PDUs2Go.com was a marque exhibitor at the 6th annual PMXPO hosted by ProjectManagement.com. We had a great time and want to thank everyone that stopped by PDUs2Go.com‘s booth. Our fingers were flying as we chatted with over 1,500 project managers that visited us from such great companies as 3M, ADP, HP, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Wells Fargo to name just a few.

A virtual conference is pretty amazing and the technology has come a long way towards creating a memorable experience. The event mirrors a real-life conference and is very organized and interactive. If you haven’t had the opportunity to attend a virtual conference, be sure to sign up for next years. There were great speakers, great content, and plenty of free PDUs to go around!

Speaking of PDUs, we’d like to congratulate Bill Biedenbach from FedEx for winning PDUs2Go.com‘s unprecedented giveaway of 535 PDUs valued at over $13,000. That’s enough PDUs to last through 9 certification cycles! Congratulations Bill!

The article below will give you an idea of what PMXPO was like and what some of our visitors had to say about the event and PDUs2Go.com. You can still watch the presentations on-demand and earn 7.5 PDUs through July 26, 2013.

Wishing you continued success and we look forward to seeing you at PMXPO again next year!

Sincerely,

Jennifer Bridges, PMP (formerly, Jennifer Whitt),

Founder – PDUs2Go.com

PMXPO 2013 at a Glance

A live virtual event is a sight to behold. Once you log in to the event you are presented with the Main Hall that allows you to select the Conference Hall, Resource Center, Lounge, or Exhibition Hall.

You’ll see PDUs2Go.com‘s booth in the lower left corner…

…and everyone that dropped by our booth received a free 7 PDU course (a $224 value) called Relationship Economics® Telecourse Series by David Nour!

What the Attendees Had to Say

We received a lot of great feedback throughout the day. Below are a few of the kind words our visitors had to say…

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By The Numbers

We know how much Project Managers love numbers. The folloiwng are a couple of statistics that you may find interesting about the event.

Number of Visitors to PDUs2Go.com‘s Booth = 1,500
Number of FREE PDUs given away by PDUs2Go.com = 11,250
Value of FREE PDUs given away by PDUs2Go.com = $336,000
Number of Companies that Stopped by = 1,180
Number of Countries Represented = 65
Number of PMPs = 1,115
Percentage of Project Managers = 70%
Percentage of other Jobs (i.e. C-Level, VP, Programmers) = 30%

It was definitely a great show and we encourage everyone to attend next year’s PMXPO. In the meantime, you can catch up on some of your PDUs by watching the presentations on-demand through July 26, 2013.

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