During the past nine years, I’ve reviewed over ten thousand PMP exam applications. And more specifically, a hundred or so applications that were selected for audit, producing comments from the ...
It’s the acronym that stands for “Operations Order”, and an Operations Order is used as the plan for performing military missions. And since military missions are temporary endeavors undertaken to ...
At least on projects, it’s “scope”. And it’s what we in the project management biz call a “project objective”. The other “project objectives” are “schedule”, “budget” (of resources), and “quality”. ...
In the civilian workforce, those tasked with leading teams to accomplish work that produces unique results, goods, services, and capabilities during temporary endeavors for stakeholders are called project managers. And ...
Well, more like Peter Parker. He was bit by a radioactive spider and it changed his DNA. He now shoots webs, swings on said webs, fights wrong-doing and the bad ...
Merriam Webster Online defines “human capital” as “the skills, knowledge, and qualifications of a person [or] group considered as economic assets”. To us at Vets2PM, “persons” and “group” mean “military ...
In National Security terms, “Recruiting” means attracting qualified citizens into the military Branches of the Army, Navy, Marine Corp, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard; “Readiness” means that each ...
It’s a powerful word. It’s a combination of “capacity” and “ability”. And it’s what hiring managers are looking for in new hire candidates. “Based on what this person ...
I am often asked “How do I help my project teams select which planning and delivery method to use for each project Doc?”. And I answer with the six ...
Clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes identified and named this phenomenon 1978. They defined imposter syndrome as a “condition of feeling anxious and not experiencing success internally, despite being ...
“Mentorship”. It’s like a force of nature! When attentive, wise mentors apply the right amounts of pressure at the right times in the right places needed by a ...
It’s a concept that I made up formed from two words, and it’s derived from a decade plus years helping 13K+ military veterans translate their experience into a language that ...
According to the Small Business Administration, 95% of the twenty-eight million or so small businesses in the US are what they call “micro small businesses”.[1], [2] That’s because small businesses ...
To successfully found, operate, grow, and exit a business enterprise takes an entrepreneurial mindset. And when I work with Veteran Owned Businesses, this is one of the topics I ...
Oxford’s online dictionary defines “capability” as “the power or ability to do something” and “the extent of someone’s ability”. That last part is interesting to me, and represents something ...
I keep a document to which I add my favorite quotes as I come across ones that really resonate with me. After watching the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay ...
“They’re not raining down on me like manna from heaven! I have my SDVOSB and [INSERT ANY OTHER POPULAR FEDERAL SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS CATEGORY CERTIFICATION HERE]! What gives?” In ...
As military members, professionals at arms, reintegrate back into the civilian workforce, they’re told X things to do in their 3-day transition class. Things like “Write a resume”, “Target ...
