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  Crosswind Learning wins prestigious PMIâDallas Company of the Year Award. December 14, 2018 Carrollton, Texas Crosswind Learning won the PMI Dallas Company of the Year 2018 Award at the December 2018 PMI Dallas Chapter Meeting.  The PMI Dallas Company of the Year is awarded to the company that has shown outstanding contributions and has […]

Now that you are certified, it’s all over, complete, you never have to go back to this again. Right? Wrong! You will need to earn at least 60 PDUs (Professional Development Units) over 3 years. It’s a 3 year cycle, not every year. So most people likely wait until halfway through the third year and […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® doesn’t release a passing score on any of their eight credentials. I have heard opinions on a passing score throughout the years. They are simply that, opinions. The last two public passing scores from around 2007 for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam were 61% and 68.5%. Given the process PMI […]

The brain dump is a great thing. This is one of the things I reinforce to students when they start to take Crosswind classes and attack the exam The Crosswind Way. A few years ago the brain dump rules changed. The current rules force you to watch the full online tutorial and start the exam […]

In the almost 20 years I have started doing Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam courses I still see people have issues with how to attack the questions. The thing is if you start a question with the wrong approach, your odds of getting that question and future questions correct go down significantly. Project Management Institute […]

All Project Management Institute (PMI)® exams have the same format. A question/situation with four options. Chose the best of what’s there. All the answers can be right, all can be wrong, or some combination. You select the best of what’s there. This is what starts the process of driving some people crazy regarding this exam. […]

I have heard various things from people over the years about the Project Management Institute (PMI)® audit process. The majority of these things I hear from people are incorrect. Here are the basics of the PMI audit process. The audit process tests the application process, not your application. PMI audits 10% of applications to randomly […]

Once you are approved to take the exam, you have one calendar year to take the exam. The exam is offered whenever there is capacity at a test center. You can take the exam up to three times in a year. If you do not pass after three attempts you have to sit out a […]