This is a reminder to all readers that the PMP exam officially changes at the beginning of July. If you have been studying the version 3 PMBoK, then youmust take your test before the end of June.
If you are studying the 3rd edition but dont plan on taking the test until after the expiration date, the 4th edition PMBoK changes are significant enough that it would require study from a different book.
So here is a quick recap of the PMP Fourth Edition (PMBok) Changes:
1. Process names are now in a verb-noun format
2. Distinguishs Enterprise Environmental Factors and Organizational Process Assets.
3. A standard approach for discussing requested changes, preventive actions, corrective actions and defect repairs.
4. The number of processes has decreased from 44 to 42. Two processes were deleted, two processes were added and 6 processes were reconfigured into 4 processes within the Procurement knowledge area.
5. To provide clarity, a distinction was made between the Project Management Plan and project documents used to manage the project.
6. The distinction between the information in the Project Charter and the Project Scope Statement was clarified.
7. Process flow diagrams at the beginning of chapters 4-12 have been deleted and replaced by data flow diagrams.
8. A data flow diagram for each process has been created to show where information comes from as an input and where it goes to as an output.
9. A new appendix was added that addresses key interpersonal skills that a project manager utilizes when managing a project.
PMI® also noted that a complete list of changes will be found in Appendix A of the new PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition.
3.06.2009
Sallie Mae Wants To Hurt Us! Obama, Save Us Too!!
Here at IT Training Blog we don't usually like to speak out about anything controversial (maybe with the exception of exam cheating, but you know...). However, this is entirely called for. Why? Sallie Mae has just issued a major blow to our IT and computer training industry. So IT and computer training is in trouble. Because frankly, I can't envision a world where I actually have to self-study with the Cisco press books, without an instructor to sift through the boring stuff and make it hands-on. Command line, command line, blah, blah, snooze... Agreed? Yeah, thought so.
The editors here at ITTrainingBlog.com have just received word this morning (from a handful of computer training schools) that because of the tough financial times, Sallie Mae has pulled their contracts with many computer training companies who fall under the private career school umbrella, across the country. This will make it impossible to get a small loan for a short term certification class. They (Sallie Mae) will continue to offer loans, as they always have, to degree based schools of very high volume. However, where as before, if us IT consultants and support personnel were stuck in a job that wasn't getting us where we wanted to go, we had the option to hook up with a local IT or computer training company, get a Sallie Mae loan, get short term certification training (ie. CCNA or something like that) and move up in the world of IT. It has always been a pretty cut and dry process, loan, training, cert and then better job. In fact, in many cases its a fool proof equation. I can't tell you how many friends I have who have done just that, literally word for word.
So Sallie Mae is yanking funding from, what the data we could find indicated was, about 4-10% of the computer training industry. There is no doubt that this will have a huge impact on computer training, the IT support industry and the overall economy. The most troubling part of this is that they don't really have to pull these contracts. Its more of a move to "streamline" the portfolio, or in other words, bolster profits. Computer training loans and smaller private career schools do indeed make them a significant profit margin, just not the margin that the large schools can turn out.
Obama seems to be saving people these days, so maybe he can help us IT people out here. In fact, it doesn't need to be Obama, anyone, help us out with this. I can safely say that the IT industry is more important than General Motors (more IT people than there are GM CEO's :)). The country's IT infrastructure (and I mean the industry infrastructure and not a network infrastructure) as well as the ability to seek private career training are TOO ESSENTIAL to our economic rebound to let anything like this happen. This move by Sallie Mae will be a detriment to the computer and networking industry!!
So if your reading this, make some noise. Stand up for our ability to move up!! Speak out against Sallie Mae removing small career training loans!! Blog, twitter, digg this etc. Spread the word.
Here's also a link to start with!
So seriously, if you are reading this, please copy this link ( http://www.ittrainingblog.com/2009/03/sallie-mae-wtf-obama-save-me-too.html ) and spread it around, blog people blog!!! We can't just sit back and do nothing here!
The editors here at ITTrainingBlog.com have just received word this morning (from a handful of computer training schools) that because of the tough financial times, Sallie Mae has pulled their contracts with many computer training companies who fall under the private career school umbrella, across the country. This will make it impossible to get a small loan for a short term certification class. They (Sallie Mae) will continue to offer loans, as they always have, to degree based schools of very high volume. However, where as before, if us IT consultants and support personnel were stuck in a job that wasn't getting us where we wanted to go, we had the option to hook up with a local IT or computer training company, get a Sallie Mae loan, get short term certification training (ie. CCNA or something like that) and move up in the world of IT. It has always been a pretty cut and dry process, loan, training, cert and then better job. In fact, in many cases its a fool proof equation. I can't tell you how many friends I have who have done just that, literally word for word.
So Sallie Mae is yanking funding from, what the data we could find indicated was, about 4-10% of the computer training industry. There is no doubt that this will have a huge impact on computer training, the IT support industry and the overall economy. The most troubling part of this is that they don't really have to pull these contracts. Its more of a move to "streamline" the portfolio, or in other words, bolster profits. Computer training loans and smaller private career schools do indeed make them a significant profit margin, just not the margin that the large schools can turn out.
Obama seems to be saving people these days, so maybe he can help us IT people out here. In fact, it doesn't need to be Obama, anyone, help us out with this. I can safely say that the IT industry is more important than General Motors (more IT people than there are GM CEO's :)). The country's IT infrastructure (and I mean the industry infrastructure and not a network infrastructure) as well as the ability to seek private career training are TOO ESSENTIAL to our economic rebound to let anything like this happen. This move by Sallie Mae will be a detriment to the computer and networking industry!!
So if your reading this, make some noise. Stand up for our ability to move up!! Speak out against Sallie Mae removing small career training loans!! Blog, twitter, digg this etc. Spread the word.
Here's also a link to start with!
So seriously, if you are reading this, please copy this link ( http://www.ittrainingblog.com/2009/03/sallie-mae-wtf-obama-save-me-too.html ) and spread it around, blog people blog!!! We can't just sit back and do nothing here!
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