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Issue #17 - Understanding vs Memorisation

Gaining knowledge the right way

Agile Admiral - Gabor Stramb

Jul 28, 2023

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✍️ Quote of the Week

🔨 What are the different project managment lifecycles?

💡 Gaining knowldege via Understanding vs Memorisation

⌚ CAPM/PMP Study Group Next week

✍️ Quote of the Week

"If you can spend 5 years doing work that nobody else is willing to do, you'll spend the next 40 years living a life like nobody else can." from Justin Welsh

🔨 What are the different project managment lifecycles?

Sooner or later every project manager have to understand the different project managment lifecycles.

Predictive/Adaptive/Agile

💡 Gaining knowldege via Understanding vs Memorisation

How do I prepare for the CAPM/PMP exam?

How much information do I need to memorize?

I receive this question every day.

And here is my response:

Required information for both CAPM/PMP are huge. Enormously large amount of data. But, do I need to know all of it 100%?

The pragmatic answer is NO, why?

✅ PMI cannot ask you about everything. There are "only" 150 questions(CAPM) and 180 questions(PMP).

✅ Exam based on the latest ECO - Exam Content Outline and not the latest PMBOK out there. Every task in the ECO will be tested on the exam. Therefore you need to put lots of emphasys to understand those.

✅ Make sure you spend half of your preparation time on practicing questions. It is a "skill" to answer questions correctly and remember you cannot learn everything by heart.

✅ Focus on the mindset aka logic, why "things" are working the way they work, instead of "i disagree, real life we do it differently" - the more resistant you are, more difficult it will get to comprehend and pass

⌚ CAPM/PMP Study Group Next week

Next week continue with weekly study groups:

Tuesday - Aug 1

PMP Study Group

Topic: How to pass in 8 weeks

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/events/pmpstudygroup-topic-howtopassin7083903022354837504/

Wednesday - Aug 2

CAPM Study Group

Topic: Role of Business Analysis

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/events/capmstudygroup-topic-roleofbusi7083901309300428801/

Looking forward to see you on the session :-)