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PMP Exam Prep Course
PMP Exam Prep Course Delivered by Russ Parker Course Dates: 30 Nov/1 Dec/7 Dec/8 Dec (10a - 6:30p EST) Get the 35 Contact Hours for Taking the PMP Exam. Receive: 35 Contact Hours for taking the PMP Exam Flexible Coaching until you Pass the Exam Practice Questions and Mock Exams PowerPoint's and Recordings of Classes Email course to accompany your 35 hour course. Want to learn more? Schedule a call! Schedule a Call Ready to Sign up? Sign up for Upcoming Cohort See you next week! 600 1st Ave,...
READ POSTCurious About AI Project Management?
The Proactive Risk PM Weekly Issue #34 Aug 24, 2026 Next PMP® Exam Prep Course - Starts This Weekend: 29 August! Hi , Last week I told you about how I earned the PMI CPMAI™ certification. This exam covers the project management methodology around working through AI projects.... where the normal project management lifecycles we are all used to isn't effective enough to create the business value we are looking for. Today, I'm calling out my journey to this certification and what you need to...
READ POSTArriving Just in Time or Too Early?
The Proactive Risk PM Weekly Issue #32 Aug 10, 2026 Next PMP® Exam Prep Course - Starts 29 August! Hi , I was cutting it closer than I like last night. I taught this weekend's RMP® Exam Prep class, we wrapped early, and I figured I had a good window to get to the airport for my flight to Vegas. Not my usual "arrive stupid early" buffer... but enough. Or so I thought. Then a car broke down right on the highway ramp, merging lanes, traffic backed up for 25 minutes. I got to the parking garage...
READ POSTThe AI risk register that took 4 seconds (and got half of it wrong)
The Proactive Risk PM Weekly Issue #31 Aug 3, 2026 New Course Announcement Later Today.... Watch Your Email Hi , I've been feeding my project charter, stakeholder register, and a stack of meeting notes into AI lately... and in under a minute, it hands me back 40, 50, sometimes 60 potential risks. Ten years ago that took a facilitated workshop, a whiteboard, and a few hours of my life. Now it's instant. And honestly? It's the part of AI I use the most. But here's what kills me. And it's the...
READ POSTPMI's new AI standard isn't about AI tools at all
The Proactive Risk PM Weekly Issue #30 July 27, 2026 Next PMI-RMP® Exam Prep Starts Saturday 1-2, 8-9 August Learn more and Sign up! Hi , I just got back from vacation the other day... two weeks of family time, no chaos, exactly what I needed before my wife (a teacher) and my kids head back to school in a few weeks. And here's the honest truth: as good as the trip was, the thing I was most excited about coming home to wasn't unpacking. It was sitting back down at my desk. My actual desk. With...
READ POST95% of AI pilots are failing. Here's why.
The Proactive Risk PM Weekly Issue #29 July 20, 2026 2026 PMP® Exam Prep on the Schedule 27 - 30 July, Weekday Course Learn more and Sign up! Hi , PMI just dropped a 300-page leadership anthology called Leadership That Lasts, and buried within it is a stat that stopped me mid-read: 95% of AI pilots inside major companies are currently failing. Not because the AI doesn't work. Because nobody walked the "first mile"... nobody asked what decision the AI was actually supposed to improve, or who...
READ POSTtwo dates worth circling (one's in 4 weeks)
Hey, it's Russ Quick one today! First, for my US Friends.... Happy Independence Day weekend! I hope you have a safe and risk-planned out weekend! If you or any of your friends are quietly googling "how do i get my pmp" at 11pm and hasn't found what you need.... I have some information. PMI is overhauling the PMP® exam starting July 9, 2026... new exam content outline, new PMBOK® Guide information, the whole thing. Every old study guide, old practice test, and "just do what I did" tip from a...
READ POSTI passed the RMP and had never seen a Monte Carlo run
The Proactive Risk PM Weekly Issue #26 June 29, 2026 Hi , Four months after I earned my PMI-RMP®, I still had never seen a real Monte Carlo simulation actually run. I knew what it was. I could define it. I answered questions about it on the exam. Triangular distribution, three-point estimates, probability distributions.... I had all the vocabulary. But I had never watched one work. A friend of mine, someone else in the PM space, finally pulled one up and walked me through it. I sat there...
READ POSTThe deadline I knew about all year (and still almost blew)
The Proactive Risk PM Weekly Issue #25 June 22, 2026 Hi , My wife's birthday was yesterday. Yes, the same day as Fathers Day! I knew that her birthday was coming. I've known it for... well, every year. It's not exactly a surprise on the calendar. I even had the big gift handled early: a new bike she'd been wanting, so she could ride around the neighborhood with the kids. Done. Wrapped up before I could even feel good about it. So I told myself I had time. Cards, cake, prepping the kids for...
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