Contact hours are the education you complete before the PMP® exam — 35 hours of project management training required for eligibility. PDUs (Professional Development Units) are what you earn after certification to keep it — 60 every three years. One gets you into the certification; the other keeps you in it. They are not interchangeable, […]
Author: Cemre Akkartal
Unrealistic Project Deadlines: The PM Who Said Yes Fastest
The assignment went to whoever promised the earliest date. That’s an auction. And you just won it. A director needs a system migration done. Three project managers are in the room. “When can you have it live?” The first PM says, “Let me come back with an estimate by Friday.” The second says, “Realistically, end […]
Elite Teams Adopt the Tool First: AI in Project Management Without Losing Your Judgment
PMP® holders who have watched a colleague produce a risk register in twelve minutes with an AI tool: the question is not whether it will replace you. The question is whether you’ll be the person in the room who knows when it’s wrong. Will AI Replace Project Managers? An Honest 2026 Answer The numbers say […]
The Best AI Tools for Project Managers (2026 Guide)
The best AI project management tool depends on where your team already works: Jira for engineering-heavy delivery, Asana or Monday.com for cross-functional work management, ClickUp for breadth in one workspace, Notion for docs-first teams, Wrike for enterprise PMOs, and Microsoft’s Copilot-connected stack for M365 organizations. AI features are converging fast across all of them — […]
Elite Teams Are Small and Fast: What Skunk Works and a Vaccine Taught Us About Agile Project Management
Project managers with a forty-person team and a two-hundred-line schedule: the fastest project teams in history were small enough to fit in one room. That wasn’t a budget constraint they worked around. It was the strategy. This is the second post in our Elite Teams series. The first covered the trait every elite team shares. […]