Toronto, ON - September 19, 20008 - three O and Infomaxium Bring PMP® Training to Macau!threeO and Infomaxium have partnered to provide our PMP® Exam classroom course to students in Macau. Let us pass on a little information about the city of Macau first, then'll we'll update you on the course.The city of Macau is about 45 miles from Hong Kong  . To get there we flew directly from Toronto, Canada, to Hong Kong and then took a ferry from Hong Kong to Macau. The ferries that run between Hong Kong and Macau are very fast - they maintain speeds of around 90 km per hour, or 60 miles and hour so the trip only took 45 minutes which was a shame in a way because the scenery on the way is so beautiful. A word of explanation: although you'll see the city's name spelled Macao on the map to the right and elsewhere on maps, in Macau it's spelled Macau so we'll use that spelling here. Macau was a Portuguese outpost for years, similar to Hong Kong. It was a major trading port for the Portuguese, established just after the turn of the 17th century and although it hasn't been under the control of the Portuguese for many years, you can still see the influence of that period on the culture here. In fact, until quite recently, Portuguese was the official language in the city!
Team work appeared to be a strength with these students; work was completed on time and the work results were excellent! Students demonstrated their grasp of the project management concepts on which the exercises were based by the thoroughness of their solutions to the problems posed in the exercises. It's too early to tell at the time of this writing, but if the students demonstrate the same work ethic in their post class studies with AceIt© as they demonstrated in the classroom, they can't fail! All in all it was a pleasure to talk to the project managers in that class and Infomaxium and I wish them all the best in the future! The CourseThe course taught in Macau was a customized version of a classroom course created for local customers. The original requires 20 hours of classroom time and 15 hours of self-directed study, over 5 days, using AceIt©. The customized version taught in Macau was given in 35 hours of classroom time over 5 days; the material originally intended to be covered in self-study was covered in the classroom.The class consisted of 12 dedicated project managers who attended the class from Thursday through Monday - that's right, they attended class on Saturday and Sunday! The class consisted of:
The agenda for the 5 days looked like this: Day 1 Morning - Context & Integration Day 1 Exercise (Context) Day 1 Afternoon - Scope Management Day 2 Morning - Time Management Day 2 Exercise (Scheduling) A Class Photo Day 2 Afternoon - Quality Management Day 3 Morning - Cost Management Day 3 Exercise (Budgeting) Day 3 Afternoon - Human Resource Management  Day 4 Morning - Communications Management Day 4 Exercise (Communications Planning) Day 4 Afternoon - Procurement Management Day 5 Morning - Risk Management Day 5 Exercise (Risk Plan) Day 5 Afternoon - Exam Tips & Tricks Working on an Exercise |
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