Inflation's Effect on Your Salary

An inflation calculation may help you figure your salary requirement for a new job - last year's dollar of salary has less buying power this year.

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Integrity - Essential to a Project Manager

The essential character of a project manager - a professional project manager, is integrity.  Your personal credo, the selfless devotion to the betterment of your organization's project management practice that produces integrity in the performance of your work, and the profession as a whole in securing a place for project management in any organization.

Are you a certified project manager?  A certification - a PMP cert - Project Management Professional asserts that your ideals of integrity are accepted by the Project Management Institute, and when you pass your PMP exam - you have gained a reward that accrues to PMPs because of the wide acceptance of their integrity.  As a PMP - you are presumed honorable.  You are considered in good standing once you pass your exam and remain so as long as you maintain your PMP credential according to the established code of the PMI PMP cert.

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I think many professionals are misunderstanding my perspective on certification and why I am an advocate of, at least, for industry project managers, to get their PMP.

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RDS (Role Delineation Study) Affect on PMBoK

Last year's August 31 changes to the PMP exam did not make any substantive change to the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam knowledge areas. Nor did the difficulty level of the test increase or decrease.

I am certain that, as a PMP who passed the exam on my first sitting and having read the 14 pages of the RDS, that, most if not all of the change to the exam is simply a matter of interweaving professional responsibility questions with content from the nine knowledge areas. According to PMI, upwards of 30% of the question content may change, but this may have to do more with ordering than verbiage.

The Role Delineation Study specifies that project selection is no longer in scope for PMPs yet I understand there are still project evaluation and selection questions on the exam, i.e., on NPV, IRR, Payback Period, Opportunity Costs, AOA, and classic theories of motivation from the likes of Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland et al.

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