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PMP Formula of the Week: Forecasting a Necessary CPI

July 13, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Your project has not been performing well from the beginning from a budget standpoint. The project BAC is $1,000,000 and it is 50 percent complete from an Earned Value (EV) standpoint. The Cost Performance Index (CPI) is calculated to be 0.8. Your project sponsor wants to know what CPI the project must perform at for the last 50 percent of the project for the project to come in at budget. The answer, of course, is 1.2. The numbers used in this scenario allow the answer to be logically estimated. A CPI of 0.8 for the first half of the project and a CPI of 1.2 for the second half of the project averages out at a CPI of 1.0. But, what if the project data were not so rounded? The new project data is 46 percent of the work is complete, and CPI is 0.78 The project work is expected to continue, from a cost standpoint, to the project end similar to the first 46 percent What CPI must the project perform at over the last 54 percent of the work for the project to come in at budget?

PMP Question of the Week: Lines of Communication

July 6, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

You need to calculate the lines of communication in your team. Which of the following formulas should you use?

PMP Question of the Week: Close Project

June 29, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Which of the following activities will not be performed as part of the Close Project or Phase process?

PMP Question of the Week: Develop Project Charter

June 22, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

When is a contract an input to the Develop Project Charter process?

How To Build Your Own Cybersecurity Team

June 17, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

The U.S. Department of Labor expects employment of “Information Security Analysts” to grow by 37 percent from 2012 to 2022, or more than twice the rate of all “computer occupations,” which are themselves expected to grow 60 percent more than “all occupations.” In other words, if you are an information security analyst or studying to be one, then you are looking at rapidly growing demand for your services. Your future is likely to be very bright.