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Change Management - What’s so complex about it?

Perform Integrated Change Control is one of the process under monitoring & Controlling process group and in Integration knowledge area. One of the most weighted process in PMP examination and you can expect lot of questions from this process. Let’s pick up few instances: A team member comes to you and proposes changes in high level design for security module interfaces. He feels confident that introducing those changes will lead to lesser efforts and more secured and de- coupled interfaces.  You (Project Manager) along with few senior team leads is having a meeting with customer to get the prototype sign off. The customer feels that the screen is too bland and needs a better UI (User Interface) Your senior manager comes up to you and informs you that the inter-related BPO project has few changes in the process and hence the current project (under me) needs to change the current workflow to match the updated workflow.   What do you think...

PMP Preparation Simplified

PMP  Preparation Simplified PMP Weightage guide As discussed in my earlier post, PMI have released PMP examination outline for PMP aspirants.  The following is text and information from the guide as is: PMI Question proportion Weightage Guide “ The following table identifies the proportion of questions from each domain that will appear on the examination. These percentages are used to determine the number of questions related to each domain and task that should appear on the multiple-choice format examination”     Putting the pieces together: Let’s have a look again at the weightage and the 42 PMBOK process. What I have done is simply put the no of processes against the knowledge area under the process group. Eg  Integration have 1 process called develop project Charter under Initiating hence a process count of 1 is given at relevant place. Process Count/Process group Table Inferences: Would you prepare 2 processe...