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. […]
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How Long to Study for the New PMP Exam?
Plan for roughly 60–120 focused hours of PMP® preparation. For most working professionals that means 8–12 weeks at 8–10 hours a week, or 12–14 weeks at a steadier 6 hours a week. Experienced PMs with agile exposure land near the low end; candidates newer to agile or to the Business Environment domain should budget the […]
Optimism Bias in Project Management: Why Your Best Business Case Is the Most Dangerous One
The project that got funded is the one whose estimate was furthest from reality. That isn’t bad luck. It’s selection. Every quarter, a room of executives looks at a stack of proposals and funds a few. The ones that win have the best numbers: the highest return, the lowest cost, the shortest timeline. Ask yourself […]
The New PMP Question Types, Explained (Plus a Mini Case Set)
The PMP® exam introduced new question formats on July 9, 2026: case or scenario sets (one detailed situation followed by several linked questions), graphic-based items, enhanced matching with drag-and-drop, point-and-click, and pull-down lists — alongside familiar multiple-choice and multiple-response questions. Here’s how each format works, how to pace all 240 minutes, and a mini case […]
The One Trait Every Elite Team Shares (and Most Project Teams Don’t)
Project managers running a team that is busy but not winning: the fix is not a new tool, a new methodology, or a bigger budget. Google spent two years and a great deal of money proving that. In 2012 the company launched Project Aristotle, a study of its own teams, to find out why some […]