Project Management Reviews

Becoming a PMP certified project manager requires you a lot of time to study, prepare, apply and take the exam (hopefully, one time). Typically it takes you from 5-9 months. However, no matter what how long you have prepared for the exam, what you do in the last week before the exam has a major role in your exam result. Having consulted with many candidates and based on my personal experience in taking a PMP and PMI-RMP exam, I have some advices for you.

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One of the best way to study for the PMP exam if you do not have many time is using the Project Management Prepcast , you can bring it with you on your portable device, watch and listen to it everywhere. Check a video on Youtube for more details.

Many project managers and candidates for this position know the Catch 22 situation in project management career: In order to have assigned as a project manager you have to have some project management experience, and to have some project management experience, you need to have a project assigned. Cornelius Fichtner, show host at Project Management Prepcast , have once addressed this question in his podcast episode How to Become a Project Manager.

Regarding the PMP exam, there is a similar situation. As you may know, PMI requires minimum 60 months or 36 months of project management experience, depending on your academic degree. Many people conclude that, one must be a project manager in order to fulfill this requirement to take the exam. And, as you may know, in many project manager vacancies nowadays a PMP credential is a must requirement. Hence, comes the Catch 22 situation on the PMP exam: in order to take a PMP exam, you have to be a project manager, and to be a project manager, you need to be a PMP. How to overcome this situation?

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