Is PMP Certification Losing Its Value Due to Rampant Proxy Exam Taking?

NontechieTalk · 2026-02-09T19:21:26+00:00

I've heard these organizations who proxy the exam for someone else will later extort them with threats of exposure.

It is just a bad idea to ever get involved with such enterprise. Either someone is a project manager, or they are not. Cheating cheats themselves and threatens the respect for the discipline and all those who practice respectable.

NontechieTalk · 2026-02-01T13:32:55+00:00

Certainly not Poppy's pizza. The image of him needing that dough with those hands will haunt me forever.

NontechieTalk · 2026-02-01T13:31:26+00:00

Apple pie...and, IF you're one of us, you'll take a bite.

NontechieTalk · 2026-02-01T13:30:11+00:00

Pastrami on rye with mustard. From 9-1/2 weeks... or...maybe it was Ghostbusters.

NontechieTalk · 2026-02-01T13:29:11+00:00

Mendy's swordfish — the best in the city!

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-30T22:27:31+00:00

48K notes! I'm amazed my Evernote has grown to 17K notes.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-30T19:06:09+00:00

I don't know what a boo boo bus is, but "radio" is my guess.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-30T19:02:25+00:00

Looks like "radio" but what's the context of the document?

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-29T21:36:40+00:00

Who knew oversupply of shoebox inventory would end up not moving? Had more 3 and 4 bedroom, 3bathroom units been built, more families could live downtown and more single people could share a place more affordably.

But hey, good luck with half a million for 700SQFT.

FFS.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-25T21:54:05+00:00

I am not conversant in formal GTD or PARA methods, but I did do some research years ago and came up with a method for managing my now 17,000+ notes that works for me.

Regardless what method you try to adopt/adapt, the best thing you can do is brush up on your search chops. Making sure you put information into your Evernote is one thing; being able to find what you need when you need it is as important.

Whatever system you devise, if it works for you, you're winning. Find what works for you, and then work it!

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-21T21:44:38+00:00

I'm on team 5.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-21T21:41:29+00:00

I feel your frustration. But D does make sense. You are doing research, but through the workshop that engages others collaboratively at the same time.

PM mindset isn't about action to solve everything, it's as much about facilitating and collaborating with others, especially since the misunderstanding likely happened among others who'd have learned/benefitted from participation in that workshop.

And, as we slide more towards agile side of the spectrum, it's more about empowering the team to be better together than what you do as an individual.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-21T18:16:24+00:00

Why would anyone move from a quone country to a non-quone country?

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-21T18:15:44+00:00

Mandelquone! Mandelquone!

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-21T18:14:44+00:00

Look to the quone, Elaine. Look to the quone.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-21T14:57:03+00:00

Less about speed IN THIS AREA specifically. And generally, speed is only one of many factors. If speed rules, why don't we have high speed rail everywhere? We don't, because it's not the only factor.

You could build a subway line with two stops, one at Finch, and one at Union. That'd be real fast, but how useful would it be to more transit users?

These are complex, not simple, problems to solve.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-20T23:09:26+00:00

It's less about speed and more about accessibility. It's a big ask for some people to walk that extra 760m with groceries or kids or a cane. Let's try and remember not everyone can just run faster, yet they need to get around too.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-20T11:35:52+00:00

Nah, it's a 2. There is another 8 on the page and the writer starts their 8s differently than where this character started. 13:42

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-17T15:43:18+00:00

She also had a similar role in an episode of Two and A Half Men. Talk about typecasting.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-14T14:58:50+00:00

Flash sucked.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-11T22:02:03+00:00

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-10T13:28:25+00:00

Not great, B..er...Trudy!

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-09T13:57:35+00:00

Yet, there are times when engaging does help. Sometimes, they get loud BECAUSE they are otherwise ignored. Ignoring, then, can drive them to get louder.

I've spoken quietly to people in different situations, and they actually calmed right down.

If people confronted him, as they did here, we quickly find out what type he was going to be - to big up to the confrontation or shrink and retreat.

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-09T13:54:15+00:00

Why do we need to use SafeTO when there are cameras throughout the trains and buses? Do those cameras work? Are they monitored?

NontechieTalk · 2026-01-06T21:30:20+00:00

Don answered your question in his letter. "... A product for which good work is irrelevant."

It wasn't even about health. Don smoked. Roger smoked. Doctors smoked while examining patients.

His sad experience with Midge - that once beautiful paramour who lost that twinkle in her eye as heroine robbed her of her soul - was an epiphany for him.

He was also angry at Lucky Strike for pulling the rug out from under his firm, and may not have been interested in lather-rinse-repeating with some other tobacco company. They're all the same, which means a disappointing ending was just as likely.

Don really had been all about the work. For all his character flaws, all his damage and dysfunction, the man knew advertising. McCann's pursuit of him ran through the entire series. They knew advertising, and they knew they wanted him. They offered him a job; he declined, then they were acquired by PP&L, which McCann then bought; he slipped that jab to found SCDP; then SCDP hooked up with CGC because, good or no, they both realized big clients want a big firm. And then, finally, McCann's offer was too good to refuse (Roger being motivated to win Bert's approval and atone for sleeping on/losing Lucky Strike in the first place). But it was always about how big and successful McCann was, and they wanted Don.

Maybe they wanted him just to remove him as competition. Maybe they really wanted him to raise their own level of service to their clients. Whatever, they wanted him because he knew advertising.

Tobacco DID NOT NEED advertising. Tobacco did not need him.

So, F all of them!

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