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Finally completed the Project Management Professional examination(PMP). Although I had more than five years of Project management experience, believe me I learnt a lot during the preparation. I forgot the source but overall only 39% of projects are successful. This is huge because this says that almost 2/3 of the projects are disasters. I was able to see the same thing, if you have a project manager, and I mean a real project manager not the ones who make the Microsoft project plans and go around asking for the completion percentages, it does make a difference. In a project I managed recently, because of my close monitoring of the deliverables and risk we were able to complete on time and budget for the first time. The PMI approach did help me to a great extent.

No wonder project management has gained wide acceptance across various industries. But it has more relevancy and importance in the software projects. With the certification, I am in the cross roads about my career which I will put some thought and see where I am heading.