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To PMP or Not to PMP—That Is the Question

A hard look at the value of project management certification

Michelle LaBrosse
Mon, 04/08/2013 - 13:38
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Should I get my project management professional (PMP) certification now, or should I wait until I have more time to study? What if I study and I don’t pass, and waste all that time for nothing? Will having it actually help my career, or will there be no change?

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These are the questions that run through one’s mind when deciding to become PMP-certified or not. They are normal. And they are very good questions.

At first, I wanted to write this month’s column on why you should get your PMP (because I believe that in most cases, it can only help you in your career and in your life). But isn’t that so typical? Me, the CEO of a training company that profits from people earning their PMPs, writing an advocacy article about how great the PMP is? How authentic is that?

So instead, I want to focus on arguments that I have seen lately about why having your PMP does not matter, and why taking an exam prep class is a bad idea, and address those.

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Submitted by umberto mario tunesi on Thu, 04/11/2013 - 21:08

e-motion

It's curious that project management should be based on rational thinking when most designed products and services feed themselves on emotions. And it's curious too that project management it's all but rational: there's always "a winner who takes all", and he often has the least of the reasons.  

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Submitted by Sanjay Kumar Rajpoot on Fri, 07/14/2017 - 04:45

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Great information, thanks for sharing but MBBS can be applied after passing the MBBS, then what is bad in the PMP.

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Submitted by johnashton on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 06:12

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