Q&A: The Impact of IIBA’s New BABOK Guide and PMI’s New Business Analysis for Practitioners Guide

August 13, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

The release of both the IIBA’s A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge Guide v3 and the Project Management Institute’s Business Analysis for Practitioners has given business analysts a lot of information to process. To help make sense of things, Global Knowledge instructors Cheryl Lee and Adam McClellan joined forces to educate attendees on the differences between the two guides, how both guides compare to the previous version of the BABOK Guide, and where all this might be going.

Is Becoming a CAPM or PMP Worth It?

August 5, 2015 Bruce Garrod Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, project management training, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

My most recent blog addressed whether PMP and CAPM boot camps are worth the time and effort. I concluded that for most exam writers, it really did make sense to buckle down and take advantage of all that a quality boot camp offers.

Military Orders Process vs. Project Management Methodology, Part 5

February 27, 2014 Dan Stober Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

In the previous installment of this blog series, we looked at the final steps of the military decision-making process (MDMP). In this post, I’ll dive further into the final step: Orders Production.

Job Title or Not, You’re a Project Manager

February 7, 2014 Amanda Alderman Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Last night I was talking to a friend who is opening a restaurant. I am trying to help him, and at this point I am gathering requirements for him, as I feel he missed that important step.

Project Management on Mars at PMI Global Congress

November 20, 2013 Sarah Brown Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

On the last day of PMI Global Congress 2013, an out-of-this-world project manager named Dr. John Grotzinger spoke to PMPs from across the globe about his lessons learned from a cutting-edge, international project: he managed the Curiosity project as the chief scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory rover mission. Whoa.