Andy Crowe

Dwight D. Eisenhower once voiced one of my favorite quotes: “Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.” He went on to explain that when planning for an emergency, the very definition of “emergency” means that we weren’t e…

I recently spoke at a summit at the CDC. I’ve had a close relationship with them for several years now, and I got the chance to share some research with their project managers. This came just a few days after I had watched the Walking Dead episode wher…

Greetings from Miami! Kaizen is one of Velociteach’s core principles. We have been very focused (maybe obsessed) with continuous improvement over the last 10 years. I don’t think a day goes by when the word Kaizen is not invoked in the office. We try t…

Well, good news. The book is out and is working its way to fill the supply chain. This involves many steps, including manufacturing, distributing, warehouses, and retail shelves, but it effectively means that most of you should start getting books from…

The 5th Edition PMBOK Guide has hit the streets, and for a few of us, this is actually an exciting event. I spent some time with it this weekend, and I have some initial thoughts about the direction it has taken and the implied changes. An in-depth ana…

Andy Crowe, CEO and Founder of Velociteach, is one of, if not the first, authors of an upcoming PMI-ACP exam prep book to become PMI-ACP Certified. The book, The PMI-ACP Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try, is due out in February 2012. Andy Crowe, CEO …

Many of us had heard the rumor that PMI was going to delay the PMI-ACP pilot results until early next year, and today this was confirmed. The truth is, delays happen. Everyone who has managed a project (waterfall or Agile) has encountered unforeseen is…

Andy Crowe, CEO and Founder of Velociteach and author of the best-selling PMP® exam prep book on the market, The PMP® Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try, is now conquering the Agile certification exam in his upcoming book, The PMI-ACP℠ Exam: How to Pa…

Today (Tuesday, Oct 18) I’m headed up to Charlotte, NC to speak to the PMI Metrolina chapter. After a long, self-imposed hiatus, my speaking schedule has heated up again. I’ll be sharing some research I’ve conducted in project management in…

I’m sequestered in Blue Ridge on a writing retreat. After a sweltering summer, the weather is sharply cooler up here in the North Georgia mountains, and it feels great to build the first fire of the season. September 30 was Velociteach’s 9th birthday, …

The best part of my job (by far) is getting to interact with some of the smartest, most resourceful people in the world. Working with project and program managers exposes you to the people who make the world go around. Last week I was in Manhattan with…

Periodically I get sales data from Nielsen (affiliated with Nielsen Ratings). Velociteach tracks all reported retail sales of every PMP Exam resource we know about (and there are quite a few). It’s mostly a boring practice, with the same general …

A few years ago, I ran across this quote: “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, giv…

A few years ago, I led a study called The Alpha Study. The full results were published here. The study looked at 860 project managers and approximately 5,000 of their stakeholders to understand what made the top-performing project managers more effecti…

My dad valued luck. I have fond childhood memories of him backing the car out of our garage on warm spring evenings and unfolding the ping pong table. We would go at it for hours sometimes. Dad had an uncanny knack for hitting the ball to the very end …

The past couple of weeks, I’ve had a front row seat to some organizational conflict occurring in a couple of different companies. One of the groups has asked me to get involved to help resolve it, and I’ve been loosely involved with both sides in the o…

  Last week I had the privilege of visiting with the United States Coast Guard in Charleston, SC. One of the highlights was the time spent in the Seahawk Interagency Operations Center with Commander Priebe. This center has the daunting mission of coord…

As you prepare for the PMI-ACP exam, you are likely to encounter quite a few Japanese Management concepts. In reality, Agile borrows liberally from Japanese Management philosophies, where the process can matter as much as the end result. This can clash…

An interesting theory has emerged in recent years. It’s called the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and it is based on the idea that incompetence denies us the metacognitive ability to realize our mistakes. Put more succinctly, you can be so dumb that you believ…

A big welcome to Tucker Yates, who will be interning with us for the summer from the Honors Program at the University of Georgia! Tucker is a Computer Science major and is sharing his skill and knowledge to Velociteach this summer.
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