Dharmalingam N
What are the Good Books for PMI-ACP Certification Preparation?
If you are preparing for PMI ACP certification, you should know that the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner exam cannot be written according to just one PMI ACP book. Therefore, one has to go through and analyze a number of PMI-ACP books in order to be successful in the examination. It is so because PMI doesn’t endorse any particular references,...
PMI Moves to Pearson VUE for All Certification Exams
Project Management Institute (PMI) announced that from beginning July 2019, it will move all of its certification exams to Pearson VUE, the renowned global examination platform. Till now, Prometric was the exam provider for PMI certifications. With this platform shift, PMI is claiming to ensure a better overall exam experience for the exam takers. PMI Announcement According to PMI announcement, all...
A Guide to Project Management Life Cycle
Project management is not a single step process, instead, it involves a number of phases from beginning to end. So, it is most important to understand the project management lifecycle for a project manager as well as the project team. A project manager is responsible to motivate his team to follow the phases of the project life cycle so...
Top 5 Project Management Certifications in 2019
With the developing technology and businesses moving towards project management, it is the right time to get certified to make you a worthy employee for any company. By adding one of the best Project management certifications to resume, any IT professional can get better chances to become successful in the future. Every IT pro can get benefits of adding...
Agile Software Development vs. Waterfall Software Development
Are you in your mid-career as a senior associate or project manager in software development? Then you must have faced the most hurdle step of decision making which is nothing but how to choose an approach for the development? And here comes the big debate over selecting among the two software development approaches agile vs waterfall. Though agile has...
An Overview of Project Scope Management
Do you know around 38% of projects fail to meet the goal due to scope creep? Being one of the common reasons for project failure, project scope management is a vital area that every project manager must work well to ensure that the project is in line with the scope. A project scope management is a roadmap that will...
Best Way to Embed Agile Values and Principles in Team Culture
Agile innovation has undergone a rapid and huge change than any other business area and revolutionized the software industry over the past 17 years. Now it is ready to transform nearly every other functional areas in every industry. But, do you know the most challenging part of executing an agile project? It's the mindset of a team that should...
Role and Responsibilities of a Project Manager [Explained]
Every project, large or small, needs a visionary leader who can consistently maintain the productivity which is essentially the role of project manager in a team. A project manager not only leads but also orchestrates project management activities which come under the umbrella of project manager roles and responsibilities. And interestingly it's a purely strategic role. Because the success...
Steps to Achieve the PMI-ACP Certification
As the agile methodologies have shown a whole new way of IT project management, the certified agile practitioner has gained significant importance for running successful projects. There comes the craze for PMI-ACP certification preparation which is the most recognized agile project management certification across the globe. This cross-domain agile certification has correctly matched the need of standardization of agile...
What Makes Agile So Flexible?
Do you know what makes Agile so popular in project management? As per statistics, it is the flexibility of agile that makes it 37% faster and 16% more productive than the conventional project development model. Agile does not follow the sequential execution mode of SDLC, neither it delivers the final product at the end of the project. Agile works on small...