by Brian Crawford | Feb 3, 2013 | Project Management
When you’re working as a project manager for a global company, you will likely be speaking with a great number of different project stakeholders… clients, project teams, your Project Management Office (PMO), your project’s executive sponsors…...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 25, 2013 | Agile Development, PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
On my post about the pros and cons of PMP certification, project managers (and wannabe project managers) often ask me: Which certification is best, PMP, or ScrumMaster (Agile) Certification? I myself am both PMP and ScrumMaster Certified, and the short answer that I...
by Brian Crawford | Oct 4, 2012 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
I answer a large number of questions on my post about whether or not it’s worth getting PMP certified – a great many experienced and budding project managers are interested in knowing whether or not PMP certification is a good move for their careers. In...
by Brian Crawford | Jun 3, 2012 | PMP Certification, Project Management
As a PMP (Project Management Professional) certified project manager, I often get asked by other project managers (or by others who are interested in getting into the field of project management) what the PMP examination is like, how difficult it is to pass, and how I...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 21, 2012 | International Business, Language and Culture
Today is the Tuesday before the beginning of Lent; in England, today is called Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Tuesday. While some sources mention that Shrove Tuesday is commonly celebrated in other English speaking countries, I’ve spent most of my life living in...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 19, 2012 | Project Management, Social Networking
Lately I’ve been getting into using Pinterest, a social networking site designed to allow users to collect and share information by “pinning” things that they find useful or interesting onto “boards”; pages within a user’s hierarchy...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 31, 2012 | PMP Certification, Project Management
The other day a lady serving as a technical lead at a software company approached me to ask a few questions about PMP certification. Her company had volunteered to sponsor her to undergo the lengthy process of preparing for and taking the PMP examination on the road...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 10, 2012 | Agile Development, Project Management
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development was created by a group of like-minded developers at a Utah ski lodge in February of 2001. Calling themselves the Agile Alliance, the manifesto these developers put together summarized the core tenets of the Agile...
by Brian Crawford | Sep 16, 2011 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is this: unless you’re one of the elite rich, you’re probably going to have to work for a living. The good news is, if you’re a PMP certified project manager working in the field of project...
by Brian Crawford | Aug 26, 2011 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
As a PMP (Project Management Professional) certified project manager, I frequently get asked a question that all PMPs have asked themselves at some point during their careers… is it worth getting PMP certified? Going through the process of taking the dreaded PMP...
