PMP Exam Prep Question of the Week

The quality control team has raised concerns about the quality of the output of a specific machine being used in your pilot test. You ask the team to provide quantitative data to validate their concerns. The quality control team leader reports that on average 9 of 375 articles produced by the specific machine are defective. What is the probability that an article chosen at random will be defective?

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Conquering Big Data Survey

For its 2013 study of analytics needs in the workforce, American Management Association (AMA) and i4cp fielded a survey that garnered responses from 789 businesspeople representing a variety of industries (50+ industries), global locations (40+ countries), and organizational structures and sizes (1–10,000+ employees).

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Military Orders Process vs. Project Management Methodology, Part 3

In our last installment of this series, we looked at the similarities between Course of Action (COA) Development in the military decision-making process (MDMP) and the various processes in the Planning process group as prescribed by PMI®. It is important to remember that since neither orders production in the military nor writing a project management plan (or its sub-plans) in project management are linear processes, we will often see ourselves returning to processes that we have previously discussed. Plans (or orders) will always be updated when more complete information becomes available or assumptions are confirmed or proven to be false.

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Conquering Big Data: Building Analytical Skills in Your Organization

For its 2013 study of analytics needs in the workforce, American Management Association (AMA) and i4cp fielded a survey that garnered responses from 789 business people representing a variety of industries (50+ industries), global locations (40+ countries), and organizational structures and sizes (1–10,000+ employees).

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