Project Management Skills or Industry Skills? Which one should you have?

Published: Wed, 10/02/19

For your Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam

Project Management Skills or Industry Skills?

I just received the weekly Community Post from the Project Management Institute (PMI)® in my mail.

At the bottom of this newsletter they usually add their Quick Quiz (but the logo they use looks like an ad for the Doubletree Hotel... anyway...).

Today's question is this: "To be a good project manager, how much do you have to know about the industry or business that you are serving?"

Read my answer here...

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Sample Question and Answer

Ada, the project manager, is meeting with a customer for initial discussions about a software implementation project. At the end of the meeting, the customer asks Ada for a general estimate of the project duration.

Based on experience with three similar projects with roughly the same scope, Ada estimates an 8-10 month implementation time frame. What estimation technique is Ada basing her duration projection on?

A. Expert judgment
B. Three-point estimating
C. Analogous estimating
D. Bottom-up estimating

HINT: Identify the estimating technique that compares a project to a previous, similar project.

Get the correct answer here!

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Student Profile: Brett Ullman, PMP

"...The last week before your exam I recommend doing as many “quizzes” in the simulator as you can. I was taking about ten 20 question quizzes the week before and scoring around 85+% on them so I felt super confident going into the exam. People always say don’t do anything before the exam but I studied the night before with a 40 question quiz and the morning of I did a 30 question quiz. Axing those quizzes gave me extra confidence and warmed my brain up for the exam so it’s all about preference."