:AACE CERTIFICATION 2009-2010:

October 10, 2009

AACE Certification training for 5 days, 2 days trip to Bali, 579 outlook email from 5 different ongoing projects, 150+ yahoo mail from the highly spirited people from AACE session.....yes...this has been the past 2 weeks for me and still struggling and fighting through it. But the experience is undoubtedly remarkable.

From the very first day of the training session I had a feeling that this might be the chance for me to prove myself –individually as well as professionally. As the session went on, my believe grew stronger and stronger having a group of enthusiastic people -all determined to succeed in every aspect. I was amazed to see the team chemistry and bonding though there were people from different part of the world, different organization and different sector of profession. That is where I must say- “Impossible is a word that has no meaning in-front of determination”.

In the training session, I came to know about a lot of stuff that we never ever thought of. There are lot of tools and techniques to run a project, but to run it efficiently; the project manager needs to select the proper tools and techniques. This is one of the most important lessons learnt from this session. Till September 25, 2009- I was a PM of the first category. Dealing with a lot of tools to run the project and eventually ending up doing redundant works. But things have changed for me after I went through the session and now I now the proper way of running a project EFFICIENTLY.

EVM (Earned Value Management) is one another project Management concept that I am delighted to learn in this session. This is one of the most effective tools that I have been ignoring from the very beginning of my PM career. Use of this single concept can change the whole project progress. Reporting, monitoring and progress tracking can be made a lot easier with the use of EVM. I am so thrilled and excited to learn EVM, eventually I am thinking of writing my paper on this topic.

There is no end of learning and we are learning in every steps of our life. But what matters is – how well we are implementing our knowledge gained. That is where the actual effectiveness of the knowledge is reflected. We have learnt a lot in our session and now its time to implement it to the organization to make a positive change. I took my Bali trip as a pilot project and I actually did implement some PM knowledge in it. I had a limited budget for the trip and a very limited timeline. But the use of proper tools made it worth and a very effective one.

To conclude my first blog, I would like to thank all my team members / classmates to show a very positive approach and make everyone believe that “We can”. Along with that, I would like to add this line for Dr. Paul- Sir, with due respect, I think this time you need to consider some budget for the Tony Romas…!!!!!

BR///

Mahin

# posted by Mahin @ 10/10/2009 12:01:00 PM