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PMP – Project Manager Professional Exam
Posted by stlsurveyor on February 25, 2020 at 8:36 pmI will be taking this exam in the not too distant future…Anyone on here taken the exam before? I have taken one graduate level Advanced Project Management class and I have a huge Study guide with a full practice exam. If anyone has anything to offer I am all ears.
james-fleming replied 4 years, 2 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies- 8 Replies
zip. and despite my sincerest, bestest intentions, i know i’ll sound snarky here, but… what good is this license/certification for? i only ask because the once in a blue moon i get on linkedin it seems like every car salesman/civil professional/mortgage lender/architect/librarian i’m connected with is patting themselves on the back for having just attained this. the other half of linkedin seems to be posts telling me how valuable it would be for me to spend my money with some particular school or program to have them bestow this magical title upon me.
so i guess i don’t get what you get when you get it.
Not much if you are flyin-solo, I would guess
🙂
-All thoughts my own, except my typos and when I am wrong.why not? which is to say, i still have plenty of projects, and i handle even more of the front-to-back than i did when i had techs and crews at my disposal.
Well Nothing. I would compare it to a CFedS. Getting certified in either will get you nothing in return nor are either certificate often required. But having either one shows that you are, educated, experienced and fully capable of handling more complex issues that may arise within our professional responsibilities. I would suspect that 90-95% of folks on this site would have no reason to even look at PMP certification. But in my role at SAM I am responsible for handling very large projects that often span 100s of miles, deal with multiple service lines (boundary, conventional topo, aerial mapping/LiDAR all being performed by crews coming from all over the nation and processing across multiple offices. Our clients sometimes represent fortune 500 companies that do care if their 100,000s of dollars are going to be managed properly.
So to answer your question…what do you get when you get it..is well, it shows that you get it.
fair enough, thanks for the answer. forget sometimes just how big SAM is. somewhere in a box around here i have sam’s first fieldbook from when he started his first company…
Yes, it is a big place and operates differently – but comes with great opportunities for personnel growth and career advancement.
Now..about that book. That would make a great gift for someone ????
Haven’t taken it; but from the materials and sample questions I’ve seen a lot of it is, for lack of a better word, cant. And I’m not saying that to be derogatory, when you’re working on big project teams one of the worst problems you can have is team members not having the same language about, for example, risk.
I found that at your ‘shop’ with the upper management level month to month emphasis on sales without some of the regional PM’s understanding sales versus revenue versus income for the project life cycle (especially on big budget cost+ projects) the way they were internally defined. Then projects would wrap up with revenue below what the booked sales value was months prior and current sales projections would take hits out of the blue.
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