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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Sounds good, I'll have to look into it. The jump from software to civil engineering might be a bit challenging though. My background is in events, so if it was accessible to me it should work just fine for civil engineers. There were some fluff pieces ("This is how project management improved my career!") but most of it was very concrete and broken into logical steps.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:What project management software have you used and what were their pros and cons? Primavera P6: Pros: -incredibly detailed -allows gnats rear end resource loading and ties into existing enterprise systems for labor rates -lots of bells and whistles for analysis and reporting Cons: -unnecessarily complex and requires specialized training to be halfway proficient at it (this is where my career basically started) -lots of support needed on the back end for data management -$$$$! MS Project: Pros: -decent enough to build out resource loaded project schedules -ties into rest of M$ ecosystem if that’s where your company is at -straight forward UI Cons: -limited data tie ins to other systems -can sometimes not be detailed enough
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Also it’s really cool to see this thread still bopping about almost 5 years after I made it on a whim. Carry on you poor souls!
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Higgy posted:Primavera P6: Knowing how we've always left the planning functionality in our ERP untouched because they're "too difficult to use," babby's first project management software sounds like the way to go, especially since we use a lot of other MS products.
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Did classes for PMP because work offered it. Now to do the application and actually take the test. I'm gonna be real, on paper I don't think I would qualify to sit the exam. I'm a worker bee and always have been, I've never been given any leadership opportunities and anytime I've been assigned a project, I at best get assigned another person who I don't even want to bother and just do the whole thing myself. Anything I'd put on the application will be embellished. Hopefully my current job will also let me sit in on meetings, but I feel like that would be too little too late for me and I would again just be lying, and they also have to let me do this within the next 5 months because I'm moving then.
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When I took the exam what I did was take the practice test every morning at 7:30 and then study the stuff that I failed. Over a month or so everything came together and I passed.
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skooma512 posted:Did classes for PMP because work offered it. Now to do the application and actually take the test. If you've taken the PMP courses, but don't have the necessary hours to qualify for a PMP cert, you can instead take the CAPM cert, its like the junior G-Man version of the PMP and qill qualify you for the type of job that will qualify you for a full PMP.
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What’s the best practice test these days? I saw that PMI is selling one but that they also have some separate subscription thing that comes with a ton of practice questions. I’m eligible to take the exam anytime but I want to wait for my director of engineering to get back from leave in March, he’s the one pushing to have the company pay for it. So I’ve got some study time.
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I just did my third renewal so my stuff is way out of date. I'll ask around in my team and let you know what I find.
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Through The Decade posted:What’s the best practice test these days? I saw that PMI is selling one but that they also have some separate subscription thing that comes with a ton of practice questions. I’m eligible to take the exam anytime but I want to wait for my director of engineering to get back from leave in March, he’s the one pushing to have the company pay for it. So I’ve got some study time. If your company will pay for it the one from PMI gave me questions that were extremely close to what was on the actual test. If your company won't pay for it then get an Udemy course that has a lot of reviews and has been recently updated.
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Thoguh posted:If your company will pay for it the one from PMI gave me questions that were extremely close to what was on the actual test. If your company won't pay for it then get an Udemy course that has a lot of reviews and has been recently updated. Yeah, I fully agree with this post. Used, https://www.udemy.com/course/pmbok-guide-7th-edition_pmp/, and them PMI test bank
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