highhopes wrote:
olive wrote:
People look for it in consulting, and the government has been including the PMP as a qualification on many of their major RFPs.
I personally am not a fan of the PMP certification. Probably because most people I know who have PMPs don't practice good project management so it makes me think twice about the purpose of the certification. I haven't gotten it because I'm not convinced it really means anything. If I wasn't getting an MBA I would have gotten one.
Amen to that. I noticed that a guy that I work with just added PMP to his e-mail signature. I always wondered 1) how this guy got his job and 2) how he manages to keep it. And as far as PM skills go, well I won't even start. The people I know that have it have soured me on it.
LOL I had this one guy try to tell me once that getting a PMP was equivalent to an MBA. I just nodded and said "yeah, maybe."
And adding PMP to signatures is tacky in my opinion, funny nonetheless.
HOWEVER, I would get a PMP if my company would pay for it and I didn't have to pay it back - why not right? It's definitely a good thing to have because it expands the number of proposals you can be bid on in the consulting world.