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Gantthead Badges - How To Get Them

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Situation: You could use a pat on the back.

Badges are one of my favorite recent additions to gantthead. At a glance, they help you understand how your peers are contributing to the site. If you look at your profile as your "PM Body of Work", badges offer a fun set of highlights - adding a sort of punctuation to the link-lists of things you've done.

They live on the your profile and and follow you around the site. Every time you make a comment or participate in a discussion, badges tell people a little bit about you.

Since launching badges last week, we've received a lot of questions about how you earn them. So here's a quick list of the launch set of badges and a description of how you can get them. We'll be adding more over time, but these are a great place to start.

 

Contender

Contender

Create a public profile on gantthead

Showoff

Add 5 areas of PM expertise

Producer

Register a project on gantthead

Loudmouth

Comment on 10 blog postings

Chatterbox

Comment on 40 blog postings

Critic

Write 10 reviews

Pundit

Write 40 reviews

Arbiter

Rate 25 items

Pioneer

Create 5 wiki pages

Watchdog

Edit 10 wiki pages

Promoter

Refer 10 new members

Advocate

Refer 40 new members

Celebrity

Complete a public profile on gantthead

Instigator

Post 10 questions in gantthead discussions

Firestarter

Post 40 questions in gantthead discussions

Know-it-all

Post answers in 10 discussion threads

Smartypants

Post answers in 40 discussion threads

Thinker

Write 10 blog posts

Philosopher

Write 40 blog posts

Networker

Connect with 50 ganttheads

Mover

Connect with 200 ganttheads

Shaker

Connect with 500 ganttheads

SME

Become a Subject Matter Expert

Contributor

Contribute 5 downloads

Brain

Answer 5 PMprep questions correctly

Genius

Answer 20 PMprep questions correctly

Scribe

Get 3 articles published on the site.

Author

Get 15 articles published on the site.

Thought Leader

Get 30 articles published on the site.

Einstein

Answer 100 PMprep questions correctly

Scholar

Successfully complete a gantthead NOD for "PMO Mission, Goals, and Objectives: Business Driven vs. Theory Driven PMOs"

Scholar

Successfully complete a gantthead NOD for "Managing Projects: Think Process not Methodology"

Scholar

Successfully complete a gantthead NOD for "PMO Tools: Establishing an Architecture vs. Implementing a Tool"

Scholar

Successfully complete a gantthead NOD for "Effective Contracting With a Senior Sponsor"

Groupie

Join 5 public GIGs

Socialite

Join 10 public GIGs

Party Animal

Join 30 public GIGs


Posted on: October 05, 2010 08:54 PM | Permalink

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Delton Perez Program Manager R&D| MICROS-Retail Newbury, Oh, United States
Great way to measure and reward activity on the site!! Everyone loves badges!

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Elizabeth Harrin Director| RebelsGuideToPM.com London, England, United Kingdom
Dave, is there somewhere where you are maintaining an up to date list, with the XPO badge and any other new ones?

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Dave Garrett
PMI Team Member
Senior Advisor to the CEO| PMI Sterling, Va, United States
Hi Elizabeth - There are probably twice as many at this point. We're working on a new page for that now.

Thanks for bringing it up!


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Wai Mun Koo PMO Director| Intergraph PP&M Singapore, Singapore
Will be better if we can also send in our suggestions for new badges.

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Elizabeth Harrin Director| RebelsGuideToPM.com London, England, United Kingdom
Dave - great! Looking forward to seeing the full list.

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Rakesh Babu Manager, Business Information Technology Solutions| Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited Mumbai, India
It is always a nice feeling to badge a badge.
Coooooooool

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Thomas Soam Project Manager| BDA Seremban Ns, Ns, Malaysia
Good!!

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Muhammad Raza Ali Khan, PMP, CISA, CISM Management Representative (IS-GRC Council), DD (Information Security Department)| SEC Islamabad, Pakistan, Pakistan
Good Idea. i like it.

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Lawrence Martins Resident Engineer| Msl Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic Of
This idea is great, every member would like get to more badges and this means you have to do some work, either by reading or writing something on project management releted issues, thus helps to harness PM skills more.

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Andrew Brown Project Manager| eTelligent Group Springfield, Va, United States
I'm afraid I have become addicted to this badge thing.

Unfortunately, right now, I am paying the price of just coming off a recent bad badge binge.

All I remember is that I started out with a brain badge, blacked out, and woke up with a DaVinci. Apparently (I am told) I would keep sneaking off at every opportunity to do "just one more" PMprep question. Luckily for me, my work, and my sanity, I crashed hard; and have been too weak to touch another question since yesterday.

I'm Hung over as hell.

I think it was the easy fix of the Vantage badge that triggered it this time ...

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Brad Egeland Business Solution Designer| Bradegeland.com Las Vegas, Nv, United States
Thanks for posting this...I needed this info!

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Hassan Abdi Tose-e Consultin Engineers| TCE Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
I Like Gantthead Badges Gathering...
It's amazing

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Vijay Vittalam Practice Head/Sr Project Manager| Coforge Vadodara, Karnataka, India
These logs shows the "Sheer Brilliance" :-) of ProjectManagement.com
Highly Impressed :-) with these fonts and their correlation



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Dr.Vijayakumar Ramasamy Senior Project Manager| RnD Project Management/NPI Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
nice badge list

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Mgaed alazony PM III| Integrated Solution For Ports(ISFP) Dakahlia -Gammalia, Egypt
i LIKE this...!

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Hina Ahmed Saudi Arabia
Great

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Cristian Baigorria Bazterrica Managing Director| Valstroom Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Great... but how do I get my SCM badge?? couldn't find any way to add certifications to my profile.

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Sabedin Meha System Design Engineer| DataProgNet Ferizaj, Kosove, Albania
Its time to update this page, please :)

Great Stuff. I am still awaiting my PMXPO 2015 badge which i attend recently!!!.

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anil kukreti Senior engineer | Mobiquity softech pvt ltd Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
yes this way .. it help in learning. Getting badges everyday motivates to achieve more . In the background its increasing your PM knowledge :).

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