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Statistics(August2015)

•  Totalcer<fiedPgMP:1406in63countries–  UnitedStates764(54%)–  Canada109–  India92–  UAE34–  Australia31–  SaudiArabia30–  China24–  France24–  Singapore23–  Brazil20–  Switzerland18–  UK18–  Germany16–  SouthAfrica16–  Ireland15–  Jordan12–  Qatar12

•  In2015,justin6months213newPgMPsareadded.Thisnumberismuchmorethananyofthepreviousyears.

•  CompletelistavailableonPMIwebsite:h]ps://cer<fica<on.pmi.org/registry.aspx

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Youwilldoit!

Dear colleague,

I hope this document will help you to save your precious time, Personally, I did not find the PgMP exam itself very different from the PMP exam.

However I found the exam preparation more complex because resources and experiences are still limited and/or not perfectly known. This makes the learning process sometimes uncertain and ambiguous …

This journey is a great opportunity to develop knowledge with passionate colleagues from all over the world who believe program management can really help organizations to capture more benefits and develop further the world !

Cheers,

Celine.

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•  Overview•  Applica<onexperience•  Resources•  Ar<facts•  Sta<s<cs•  Thanks@Encouragements

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FurtherworkonconceptsLinkedingroupWorkonlinewithothersCoachingHarishBuildmyownar<facts

Itwillbealotofwork…

Greatmyapplica(on

wasaccepted!

Stuckat50%ofcorrectanswers:howcanIprogress?

Iamready!

70%ofwork

It took me about 6 months and I think 150-200 hours to prepare the certification (2 or 3 times more than PMP). But I could have saved many hours, by working together with other world wide applicants and building my own artifacts from the very beginning…

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Applicationexperience•  Read the standard first to link PMI perspective to your experience

•  Develop an excel sheet for your experience, to calculate hours per domain

•  Make sure that all your references are OK to certify your experience

•  In writing your application : –  Put you from ‘strategic perspective’, despite you might first think about you have done it, express the WHY, your

strategic approach –  Use the “I” style instead of the “We” in order to point out what YOU did –  Ask somebody (if possible a PgMP) to read it to check if it is understandable without knowing your context

•  Other comments :–  This exercise took much more time than for PMP, and is a very good way to reflect one’s experience and think

about it. I asked review by people who were references.–  It helps to do it directly on line to get words counting : you can save your application until completed.–  A challenge I faced : In my program management experience, I did not complete all programs I had started

because of moving to other roles or maternity leaves : I simply referred to the experience I effectively worked and wrote that I made a hand over to another program manager.

My application was accepted in less than 10 days, without any audit.

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Resources(1/2)

A few personal comments about uncertainty and ambiguity sometimes in preparation …

–  The standard is very synthetic and some concepts are ‘implied’, not always detailed;

–  There are sometimes some differences between standard & ECO

–  There are sometimes non consensual questions and interpretations…

–  Questions available on internet are not always correct

–  Experience helps, but before relying on it for the exam, PMI way should be considered first

–  The scope of knowledge is wider than just the standard and can refer to PMBOK or other PMI sources when applicable to program management

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Resources(2/2)

!Helpfultodownloadelectronicversiontolookfrokeywords

DrGingerLevinPrac<ceques<ons+2examtests "

!veryhelpfultoassimilatestandardandECO.Wouldrecommendtostartwiththebookbeforetheonebelow.

OtherscoreresourcesavailableonPMIwebsite:•  Examina<onContentOnline•  PMILexicon•  PMICodeofEthics•  PMBOK:mainlytechniques

andtoolssec<onsofallprocesses

JeanGouix&Mar<alBellecPrac<ceques<ons+1examtest! veryhelpfultotestthecombina<onofyourknowledgeandexperience.Prac<ceques<ons+1examtest

LinkedinGroup!DirectcontacttoDrGinger&JeanGouix,learningssharingfromapplicants,greatinterna<onalcommunity

CoachingHarish(AddonSkills)•  Personalizedcoachingsessions

oncertainconcepts•  Ques<onsbanks•  Ques<on/answerssessions

withotherapplicants.•  Lessonslearntwithsuccessful

applicants!Reallyhelpedmetoboostmyknowledge,trainwithabout400verygoodques<onsand

reallypreparetheexam.

Myownar<facts…!toassimilate,makelinksinyourmind,buildingyourownthingshelpsalot

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ArtifactsMakeyoursynthesisofkeyconcepts

IstruggledwithECOun<lIrealizedtaskswerenotsequen<al(exceptini<a<ngandclosing)andmostoftheques<onswhereaskedontaskbasis.Ifinallymadeapuzzledecomposingeachtask«what,how,whatfor»:thishelpedmealot

Each<meIunderstoodsomethingnew,Iupdatedmyar<facts.

ECOpuzzle:funnyandefficient!

Yourownglossary:e.g-  “Define”benefits<>“Iden<fy”benefits-  “Close”or“terminate”theprogram<>

closure-  Staffingmanagementplanismen<onedin

PMBOKandPMIlexicon,

Useandsharewhatyouhavejustlearnt:e.g-  Inmyjob,Istartedusingnewwords,

implemen<ngnewthings-  Isharedwithmyteamanintroduc<onto

programmanagementbasedonourcommonexperience.

«Blanksheets»veryhelpfultheweekbeforetheexamtorefreshknowledgeeverydayandlastgaps….

Processes ToolsPMBOK

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Feelfreecontactme:

[email protected]

SinceApril2016,togetherwithmybusinesspartnerHarish,weproposetoaccompany

AspirantsontheirPgMPjourney:

http://achievup.com/pgmp-certification-preparation-online-coaching/

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