Hello, my friends. Your buddy Phil here, a project management training coach. Today, we’re going to take a look at how to complete your PMP exam application.
That’s right, we’re going to take a look at how to complete the application in just five minutes. So, if you want to complete your application, follow along with me.
The first thing you want to do is put in the title. I’m going to call this ‘Large Scale Implementation Project’. Then put in your organization, put in the job title, functioning or functional reporting area, and organizational focus.
Next, let’s put in some dates. We’re going to say January 2022 to March 2023.
Now, here we have the project description. The best way to put in the project description is to use the pattern or the framework of the PMPBOK guide. That is initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
If you go a step further, you need to put in the stuff that you did as a project manager. For example, you could say you created a project charter, identified the stakeholders, and created a robust project management plan with scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder plans, and baseline information.
During the executing phase, you could say you involved, led, and guided the project team, conducted meetings with stakeholders, and engaged all necessary resources.
In the monitoring and controlling phase, you do a lot of report generation. So, you can say you generated work performance reports and earned value management information for stakeholders and senior management.
In the closing phase, you could say you closed out phases of the project and delivered final deliverables over a three-month time period before transitioning over to operations.
That’s how to fill in the application. Stick to project management. Keep it short and sweet, and away from any technical babble that the reviewer will not understand. Be responsible for keeping the project on track, on schedule, and on budget.
Now, I know English isn’t a lot of your first language, so if you’re at a loss for how to frame ideas, you can use the power of AI to expand on your projects more profoundly for your PMP application submission. Just expand, do not embellish or add. You want to keep it 100, real, and truthful. I’m not saying do anything that is not on par with the PMI responsibilities. Right, you’ve got this!
