Learning New Tricks, New Trends and New Approaches

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There's no question that project professionals are busy. With people to manage, deadlines to meet and constant decisions to be made, is it any wonder that finding the time to see if a new software tool would be a good fit or attending a leadership workshop takes a back seat to the more pressing demands of day-today work?

Your seasoned project managers may have memorized the Knowledge Areas in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and have ingrained your organization’s processes. But the risk of complacency is ever-present—unless there’s a consistent effort on the part of the organization’s leaders to stay abreast of current trends as well as remain open to change.

“Project professionals not only can become stagnant, they do become stagnant,” says Stephen A. Devaux, PMP, president of Analytic Project Management, a consulting and training firm in Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA. “Many project managers apply effort to pass a credential exam once and then think that they know it all. Many do not take the steps necessary to maintain currency and expand their knowledge.”

Some credentials, such as the Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential, require ongoing education and experience to maintain.

That can help project professionals keep up with the rapidly accelerating pace of change in the profession.

To maximize …

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