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PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

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– October 28, 2008Posted in: General, PMP

I pride myself in the fact that I’m a very honest and hard working manager.  I define the Huether Triple Constraint as Passion, Commitment, and Skill.  I’m passionate about what I do, I’m committed to the organizations I work for, and I rely on my skills and the skills of others to be successful.

As part of commitment, ethics and professional conduct should always be considered.  One of the questions I always ask myself before making a leadership decision is “Is this good for the project and our organization?”  No, I don’t work for Initech and this isn’t Office Space.  This is a valid question and there will be several questions on the exam that deal with ethics and professional conduct.

I recommend reading the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
 Even if you don’t take the PMP, every good project manager will learn from it.

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Triple Constraint

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– October 5, 2008Posted in: Project Management

Triple ConstraintWith Project Management, you must understand that EVERY project has constraints.  Unfortunately, project managers tend to ignore this and it will come back to haunt them time and time again.  Constraints include time, scope, cost, quality, risk, or any other factors that will limit what your options are when managing a project or deliverable. “Triple Constraint” is a term that originally included time, scope, and cost.  Newer definitions include customer satisfaction, risk, and quality.  If you’re preparing[¹] to take the PMP® exam, include both the original and newer definitions.  Sextuple constraint just doesn’t quite role off the tongue.

I try to stress to stakeholders every time they try to expand scope that it will directly impact the other constraints.  If you expand the scope, you will either have to expand cost or time.  If you don’t expand either of these two constraints, you’re going to increase risk and lower quality.

You’ll first read about constraints in section 1.3 of the PMBOK®.  PMI will only refer to them as constraints at that time.  Y0u’ll find them referenced at other locations within the PMBOK as project constraints.  What you will not find in the PMBOK 4th edition is an actual definition in the glossary.

[¹]This is a link to a product I created

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