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“Logical and right dosed information in the learning modules, sequence of materials, and short conclusion at the end of lesson make your methodology effective for learning. The speed and quality are good enough. I did not notice interface during my training. I think this is a sign that interface user friendly and intuitional. It design does not dominate over material you offer.“- Greg Golushko, Project Manager / Coordinator at National Process Equipment, Edmonton, Canada .

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Chat Transcript of Simplilearn Virtual class II on Project Risk Management

Thanks to one and all the participants for making the class a successful one. For all your refernce, we are posting here the transcript of the class. Krishna Kumar was the instructor of the session.

Welcome to your Virtual Class.

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me: Hello All, Good evening!

me: We have few more minutes, before we start this class

Rob Candee: Good morning

santhosh: Good Evening everyone

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Beverly Wilson: Hello is anyone here?

me: Yes Beverly

me: We will wait for 3 more minutes and start

santhosh: ok

Beverly Wilson: ok

Rob Candee: OK, thanks

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Eduardo: yes

santhosh: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Rob Candee: Yes, although a bit choppy

Eduardo: thank you

Rob Candee: Still choppy, but I can understand!

santhosh: yes

Eduardo: yes

Rob Candee: Yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

santhosh: yes

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santhosh: delay in hardware delivery

Rob Candee: New resource of unknown skill turns out to be very capable, speeding progress/completion.

santhosh: it was not good risk

santhosh: Bad risks also known as threats

santhosh: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

santhosh: yes

Eduardo: yes

Rob Candee: Yes

Rob Candee: (Thanks)

santhosh: Is this Impact is the value of activity?

santhosh: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Eduardo: yes

Attendee6: yes

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Rob Candee: Lost all sound here.

santhosh: yes

Eduardo: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Attendee6: Yes i CAN HEAR

me: Rob others can hear

me: Please logout and login again

Rob Candee: I’ll try reconnecting. Sorry!

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santhosh: yes

Eduardo: yes

Beverly Wilson: computer failure

Attendee6: uN SUITABLE SOFTWARE

santhosh: Missing Requirements

Attendee6: IS a tool

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Attendee6: Prototype fails testing

santhosh: Can we classify the technical and Project Management categories under Internal?

Attendee6: Scope was not clear so estimating was done right

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Attendee6: Excuese me – Not right

santhosh: ok

Attendee6: La ck of experience

santhosh: internal

Beverly Wilson: planning

Attendee6: Project Management

santhosh: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Eduardo: yes

Attendee6: yes

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Eduardo: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Attendee6: yes

santhosh: yes

Beverly Wilson: no

Attendee6: no

santhosh: In finance we heard tis term

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Beverly Wilson: yes

Attendee6: yes

Eduardo: yes

santhosh: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

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santhosh: expected overheads

Beverly Wilson: employee welfare

santhosh: yes

santhosh: just to keep a buffer

Attendee6: How do you quantify thet..?

Attendee6: Is there a PMi recommendation..?

santhosh: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Attendee6: After the execution of the project

santhosh: based on actual efforts

Eduardo: when the project is finished

Beverly Wilson: actual cost of resources and products

Attendee6: planned Vs actual

santhosh: yes

Attendee6: yes

santhosh: yes

santhosh: yes

Attendee6: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Eduardo: yes

santhosh: Is there any standards for rating?

santhosh: HOw we quantify the high prob risks?

santhosh: ok

Attendee6: It seems to be it relates to the planning phase..?

santhosh: Is there any standard methods for qualitative & quantitative risk analysis?

Attendee6: ALso the risk register

santhosh: ok

Beverly Wilson: Where will the templates be located?

Attendee6: WHere do you get the lesson on the SImplilearn web page

santhosh: Yes

Attendee6: Ok I will check

Beverly Wilson: I have gone through chapter 8

Beverly Wilson: ok

Attendee6: Thanks a lot!

santhosh: ok thank you very much

Beverly Wilson: thank you!

Eduardo: thanks a lot!!

me: Thnk you all!

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Chat Transcript of Simplilearn Virtual class II on MS Project

Please find the chat transcript of the Virtual Class II on Project Scheduling using MS Project on 13th November,2009.

Krishna was the instructor of the session.

Welcome to your Web Meeting.

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me: Hello All, We have 7 minutes to go, before we start this class

Aaron: ok

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Felicia: Hello Everyone

Beverly Wilson: Hello Felicia!

Aaron: hi

Beverly Wilson: I think we are the only ones here so far.

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Aaron: yes

Felicia: yes i can hear

Beverly Wilson: I can here you.

Santhosh Abraham: Hi everyone

folusho obe: i can here folusho here

Felicia: yes clear

Aaron: yes

Beverly Wilson: yed\s

folusho obe: will the slides be available to us later

folusho obe: ok

Santhosh Abraham: Is Resource calendar is mandatory when we have a project calendar?

Santhosh Abraham: ok

folusho obe: is the baseline the initial schedule

folusho obe: can you add to the baseline as you go along

Santhosh Abraham: yes

Felicia: yes thank you for sending

folusho obe: i dont have the first lesson

folusho obe: where can we get it

Beverly Wilson: yes

folusho obe: ok

Felicia: MS project saves up to 10 baselines fo r 1 project, is that what you mean?

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Felicia: ok

Santhosh Abraham: Is there any limit for baselines?

Santhosh Abraham: ok

folusho obe: after the first baseline which is v1 it is version next which will not be a base line anymore

folusho obe: version 2

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folusho obe: after the first baseline is it still a baseline

folusho obe: when does it stop being a baseline

Felicia: yes

Anand Chawla: Yes we can view

Attendee8: Yes

me: 1. Show u how to setup Project Calendar

me: 2. Define 10 dummy ctivity

me: 3. make all activity type as fixed wor

me: 4. Organize activities in phases

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Santhosh Abraham: yes it is clear

Felicia: what is the difference betwen nondefauls work days and nonwork days

Beverly Wilson: yes

Felicia: ?

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Felicia: ok

Felicia: yes

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me: The next steps tat we are going to learn is

me: 1. enter the effort in hours

me: 2. Define Dependencies between activities

me: 3. Enter Resource name against each activity

Felicia: Resource names will be the personnel (team)

Beverly Wilson: yes

Felicia: yes

me: 1. Check whether Resources are overallocated

me: 2. If not overllocated, do it deliberatey

me: 3 I will show how to do resource leveling

Santhosh Abraham: how to add a constraint?

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Beverly Wilson: yes

folusho obe: clear

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Santhosh Abraham: yes

folusho obe: yes

Felicia: no why isn’t activity 11 not in baseline?

Anand Chawla: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Felicia: oh, i see.

Felicia: yes

Santhosh Abraham: after adding activity 11 can we save the plan as baseline?

Santhosh Abraham: ok

Santhosh Abraham: start is the actual start date

Felicia: it’s the start of activity 1

Felicia: ?

folusho obe: actual start planned start

Felicia: i get it, one is actual the other is estimated

Santhosh Abraham: baseline start is the original planned start date

Felicia: How do I schedule parttime workers who do not work at 100% capacity?

Santhosh Abraham: clear

Beverly Wilson: yes

Anand Chawla: yes clear

folusho obe: clear

Santhosh Abraham: how to link a resource calendar to project

Eduardo Villarroel: clear

Felicia: ok

Santhosh Abraham: ok

Santhosh Abraham: Can we set the Budget to a project

Santhosh Abraham: ok

Santhosh Abraham: good

Beverly Wilson: I am confident

Santhosh Abraham: yes very much

Felicia: i think i can manage well

Eduardo Villarroel: yes

folusho obe: yes

Anand Chawla: yes

Felicia: ok

folusho obe: i will be asking questions during the week

Felicia: The forum is fairly new, I’m sure more and more will participate

folusho obe: is this in a podcast so you can listen in the car

folusho obe: can you download to a cd

folusho obe: we can listen from an iphone?

folusho obe: ok internet from iphone

folusho obe: ok

folusho obe: thank you for the class

Santhosh Abraham: Thank you very much for your efforts

Beverly Wilson: Thank you

Felicia: thank you so much for doing this. I certainly appreciate your time and committment!

Santhosh Abraham: us

folusho obe: I am in newyork

Eduardo Villarroel: thank you !!

Santhosh Abraham: dc

Felicia: new york

Beverly Wilson: va

Anand Chawla: Thanks a lot this has beegret work keep it up

Eduardo Villarroel: Oakville

Anand Chawla: Toronto

Santhosh Abraham: we will

folusho obe: we will

Felicia: have a good night.

folusho obe: have a good weekend

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Anand Chawla: Thank You again Bye

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Chat Transcript of Simplilearn Virtual class I on MS Project

 Below is the transcript of the virtual class-I on Project Scheduling using MS Project on 12th November, 2009 .

Krishna was the instructor of the session

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arun nampoothiri: Can different calenders be used in one project?

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Srinivasan: Yes. We can use different calendars for different resources

arun nampoothiri: e.g engg., procurement and construction

Srinivasan: working from different locatoins

arun nampoothiri: ok

arun nampoothiri: WBS

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Chakrapani: sorry for being late… was stuck in a meeting

Chakrapani: i hope i have not missed a lot

arun nampoothiri: can different type of resources be assigned to one activity – eg. manpower, machineries & materials ?

Chakrapani: great

Attendee10: yes

arun nampoothiri: ok

arun nampoothiri: yes

arun nampoothiri: I understand. I am from engineering & construction background in petrochemicals & refineries

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arun nampoothiri: After scheduling, can we extract a report which can show a summary of the project – eg. total no. of activities, critical activities, open ended activities etc.

arun nampoothiri: ok

Attendee16: if an approved baseline has to be changed then? do we re baeline it track with latest one

Attendee16: ok. i understand FIRST baseline and that can keep changing. am i right?

Attendee16: ok

Attendee16: ok

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Attendee10: i agree with you

Attendee16: thank you

Attendee16: click full screen…

Attendee16: sure

Attendee10: u can share your desktop

Sougat Mitra: No

Attendee10: yes

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Chakrapani: yes

Sathya: no, server unreachable error be shown

Attendee16: yes

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Abid: i can also see

arun nampoothiri: yes, visible

Sathya: now I can

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Attendee42: i can see the screen – but its intermittant, can you please move slow,its taking time to refresh

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Sathya: audio is gone

Chakrapani: sathya relogin

Chakrapani: no

Senthil: Yes

Srinivasan: we are able to hear you.

Chakrapani: i can hear

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Attendee10: ur screens are taking time to reload

Attendee10: cant see ur msproject

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Sampath: proj name also mentioned as task ?

Attendee10: we can also right click on left pane and select indent

Srinivasan: Krish, you may want to keep the task bar visible

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Sampath: ok thx

Attendee10: ok

Srinivasan: Yes

Sampath: yes

Attendee10: yups

Jagadish: yeah thanks

Chakrapani: Krishna… under the project menu do need to define the project start date

Chakrapani: ok

Jagadish: can u please repeat details about fixed date

Jagadish: fixed duration

Jagadish: oh ok – i got it, thanks

Attendee10: we can also manage the total efforts for the project.

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Srinivasan: We need the duration column as it would tell us the duration when we use more than one resource for the same activity .

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Srinivasan: Okay

Srinivasan: Thanks

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Srinivasan: Yes

Jagadish: yeah

Sampath: yes

Abid: yes

Attendee10: yups

Arun Nampoothiri: yes

Chakrapani: yes

Attendee16: can you show the spreadsheet again?

Attendee16: pls explain activity 9s columns

Attendee16: thank u

Attendee16: what is 2ss nd 3ss?

Attendee16: okok

Attendee16: one sec

Sougat Mitra: No sound

Attendee16: how come 9 depends on 8?

Attendee10: got that

Attendee16: ok

Srinivasan: Yes

Chakrapani: what is the time each resource is spending on the activity

Attendee16: go ahead

Jagadish: yeah please proceed

Sampath: yes

Sathya: yes

Attendee10: yes

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Chakrapani: not that… some of the resources are required only say for and hr a day

Chakrapani: in that case thre is always change to the schedule

Chakrapani: ok

Attendee10: ceate an activity and assign 1 hr per day

Attendee10: and we want to track efforts spent in those meetings

Attendee10: k

Ajay Khullar: good job

Ajay Khullar: yups

Attendee16: clear now

Ajay Khullar: clear now

Arun Nampoothiri: any provision for cost

Ajay Khullar: can you please explain it again?

Srinivasan: In the resource sheet, you can provide the cost.

Srinivasan: There is a standard rate and overtime rate.

Chakrapani: now on the screen you have baseline start and start

Chakrapani: what does this start indicate

Chakrapani: ok

Chakrapani: is this start the actual start

Srinivasan: You were planning to explain the Lag time

Chakrapani: so basically there are 3 start dates

Srinivasan: Yes.

Chakrapani: baseline, start and actual

Ajay Khullar: yes

Jagadish: hey krish, this is really a wonderful session.Please excuse me I go to leave for a meeting

Chakrapani: now my dates are not matching with yours

Chakrapani: i am on ms proj

Jagadish: thanks krish

Arun Nampoothiri: is there any limit for no. of activities?

Chakrapani: sure

Sampath: thx krish . u guys doing a good job

Srinivasan: Thanks Krish.

Arun Nampoothiri: ok

Chakrapani: sure thanks

Senthil: Thanks a lot

Attendee16: thank you very much

Arun Nampoothiri: thanks

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Chakrapani: krish this was a wonderful session

Sathya: thanks a lot Krish, awesome session

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Srinivasan: Thanks Krish.

Attendee16: i sec

Srinivasan: Nice session..

Chakrapani: thanks a lot

Arun Nampoothiri: really useful

Abid: thank you for this session

Yoav Reshef: Thank you

Yoav Reshef: Thank you

Chakrapani: will message you on the discussion forum for any doubts

Attendee16: thank you

Arun Nampoothiri: nice one

Chakrapani: thanks once again

Chakrapani: have a nice day ahead

Attendee16: see u all in next session

Attendee16: thanks again, bye

Chakrapani: sure

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What our learners say about our Free Online PMP Preparation Course

Within a short span of its launching, Simplilearn’s online training course on PMP certification exam has been acknowledged positively  and our learners are liking the course. We present here, starting today, a series of post highlighting what our learners have to say about our free PMP certification course.

“Overall the course is excellent and there is no doubt about it. You have made PMP exam very simple; the way each process is explained is really too good and the examples given for them is relevant. Keep up the good work; expect more sample questions for each process/groups”.

Anukul Chandran, Principal Planning Engineer, at Wood Group Engineering Ltd, UK

“The course deployment methodology is excellent and the course flow speed is great. The quality and the UI of the course are also exceptional; I like to be able to print the course material.”

Naser Ayyub,Corporate Information Technology at Quebecor World, Inc, USA

“Logical and right dosed information in the learning modules, sequence of materials, and short conclusion at the end of lesson make your methodology effective for learning. The speed and quality are good enough.
I did not notice interface during my training. I think this is a sign that interface user friendly and intuitional. It design does not dominate over material you offer.”

Greg Golushko,Project Manager / Coordinator at National Process Equipment, Edmonton, Canada

“So far everything is great. I have only looked at the first four chapters of the PMI course and need to do the rest. I am using this to study for the PMI certification.  I have already taken a live class so this I am using this system to reinforce what I have learned.”

Beverly Wilson,Federal Account Manager, Oracle, USA

“The course seems excellent, but I am only on Lesson 2.I love the slow methodical presentation and the speed to deploy new screens is excellent. Compared to the books and other courses on line or CD this course is the best so far. The UI is also great.Thanks for the use of the coursework.”

Michael Argust,MedSeries4 Consultant at Argust Consulting LLC, USA

“Enjoying the course thoroughly! Will recommend to anyone interested. Thank you! I believe the deployment and methodology is fine. Keep in mind I haven’t taken the test, so I can’t say how closely the materials deal with the actual test which would be extremely important.

I would say flow is generally good. I would delay pulling the end of each slide a bit longer before starting the next one to give people a chance to take notes, etc. I would also give more time on each test question before closing it.
Quality is great. User interfaces are more than adequate for my use.”

Michael Bartels,President at Basys Consulting Inc., USA

“I really enjoy your course, and find it helpful. The technology, visualization and graphics are all perfectly fine.The pace of the vocal speech is a little bit too slow.  I think that you should elaborate the content somehow, and add more examples and so I want to point out an error that I think fell into your site. In lecture 5, slide “Product scope and project scope”, you wrote the definition of the two scopes. The definition for project is written on product, and vice versa. Please check.”

Yoav Reshef, Independent Consultant, Israel

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Chat Transcript of the Simplilearn Virtual Class II on PMP Exam

Here is the chat transcript of the second session on PMP Certification.

Krishna was the instructor for the session.

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me: Hi, This is your Instructor Krishna

Beverly Wilson: Hi

me: Hi Veberly the class would start from 30 minutes from now

me: sorry, Beverly

Beverly Wilson: I know. I signed in early to make sure I could get in.

Beverly Wilson: Do you want me to log out and come back or can I hang out until class starts?

me: Hi Beverly, You can be loggedin

me: Now, its another 15 Minutes, let the other participants also join

Beverly Wilson: ok

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GLENDA: WHEN DOES THIS START?

Beverly Wilson: 9:00 EST

GLENDA: should i stay or come back then?

me: u can stay back

GLENDA: hm

GLENDA: so, how was dinner?

me: I am loggedin from India and its 7.30 AM Saturday!

Beverly Wilson: dinner was good. Where are you located Glenda? I am in Falls Church, VA

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Beverly Wilson: It is 9:00 PM and it is Friday.

GLENDA: I am in Cary, NC and same time. I love NOVA.

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Felicia: hello everyone

Beverly Wilson: Hello

GLENDA: hi Felicia

GLENDA: will this be recorded to access later?

Felicia: Good question, Krishna could you answer that please

Felicia: … or someone who is hosting this session

Felicia: yes

GLENDA: yes

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Felicia: yes

Felicia: I went through 4 chapters

karen bauer: is anyone talking

Felicia: and anticipate to take the exam Janauary

Beverly Wilson: I have gone through 7 chapters

GLENDA: I took the boot camp on 19 Oct for upcoming Exam in two weeks

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GLENDA: Karen can you hear the audio?

GLENDA: I’m using Foxfire and it is working perfectly

me: if any one has Problem listening the audio, logout and login again

me: Use IE

me: I think Google Chrome has some issues

Steve Gileno: Sorry I am a little late. This is Steve Gileno. I am hearing the audio fine and seeing the PowerPoint fine as well.

Beverly Wilson: I told her what to do.

GLENDA: ok

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Beverly Wilson: Karen is going to log in again.

Beverly Wilson: How long will this class be and are we meeting on Fridays from now on?

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GLENDA: 70?

GLENDA: 70 minutes?

GLENDA: ok

Felicia: Question: how different is the PMBOK version 4 from version 3

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Felicia: ok, thanks

Glenda Jaswal: will you be covering any formulas?

Glenda Jaswal: im ready

Felicia: me too

Beverly Wilson: Go ahead I will call Karen.

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me: karen, can u hear me?

me: ok

karen bauer: yes

Attendee8: sequence

Steve Gileno: Activities are sequenced

Beverly Wilson: the dates that they will occur

Attendee8: coordination

Steve Gileno: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Felicia: y

Michael Bartels: yes

Attendee8: yes

karen bauer: yes

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Beverly Wilson: wash the walls before you can paint

karen bauer: rake ground before planting

Felicia: both activites can start at the same time

Attendee10: Parallel tasks.

Attendee10: time savings?

Attendee8: they are time dependent

Attendee10: If you schedule resources, will this be taken into account or will it create a conflict?

Attendee10: thanks.

Steve Gileno: The PMBOK processes,”Develop Project Management Plan” and “Collect Requirements” have a start to start relationship.

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Felicia: sorry cant think of any

Steve Gileno: Clear

Felicia: yes

Attendee10: eg, contracts and info transfer

Attendee8: to minimize the time

Attendee8: no

Felicia: yes, one more example please

Steve Gileno: No

Attendee10: okay.

Beverly Wilson: no

Glenda Jaswal: no because i wanted to use that example you just confirmed my thoughts

Glenda Jaswal: your example is a thought I had..

Glenda Jaswal: yes it is

Felicia: so basically it’s 2 activities finishing at the same time?

Glenda Jaswal: completion of requirements and then sign off. Exactly!

Felicia: ok

Glenda Jaswal: still designated as finish to finish, correct?

Attendee10: to clarify theother comments, there is a dependency upon the order of the finshing.

karen bauer: thanksgiving dinner all done at same time

Felicia: clear, go ahead

Attendee8: yes

Attendee8: making some one busy

Attendee8: to justify to cost

Attendee8: you may call it is not a dependency

Attendee10: What about airport ops- flight safety check and flight deck pulling away?

Attendee10: Safety check starts and doesn’t finish until after plane has lifted off … okay … ops v. project – agree.

Felicia: yes

Attendee8: When is in the next class

Felicia: yes

Felicia: i can see

Michael Bartels: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Steve Gileno: I can hear

Michael Bartels: yes

Beverly Wilson: yes

Steve Gileno: ok

Attendee9: clear – thx

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Attendee10: Clear.

Attendee8: Can you please summarize the 5 steps….

Felicia: 1.Breakdown the project into activities 2. Identify the effort/how many hours required 3. Identify resources, the people, 4. Sequence the activity, what are the different dependencies 5. Identify the start date

Attendee8: breakdown the activities, identify the activites, time required for each activity, resources/efforts required, sequencing the activites, input the start date…

Beverly Wilson: Can you have back up resources if someone gets sick and use those back up resources when necessary?

Felicia: Is there ano ther program to create the project schedule other than MS Project? Can this be done in excel and create a gantt chart with the info provided?

Attendee10: agreeed re excel …

Attendee10: mS Project is uniformly avaiolable.

Beverly Wilson: A good book is Microsoft Project Step by Step. It is really good to learn how to use it.

Felicia: yeah, but my company does not want to invest in it

Attendee8: I didn’t received the link, as promised. Please make sure I get the email with the link for the next class. sghasnain@yahoo.com
Felicia: ok, thanks – that’s great cause i

Felicia: work for a non profit

Attendee8: Thanks for the great class

Attendee10: Yes, good class – thank you.

Michael Bartels: thank you very much

Felicia: Yes, thanks for doing this. I appreciate it and highly recommend!!!!!

Attendee10: excellent!

Beverly Wilson: Great, thank you!

Attendee9: thanks for the class, and for offering to share the templates.

Attendee8: Can we have your name…?

Steve Gileno: Thanks

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Beverly Wilson: Thank you!

Attendee10: You as well, Krishna.

Felicia: Goodnight, keep me posted on the next class!!!!!!!!!!!

Attendee8: Krishna – great job

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me: Bye All and see you in the next class

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Attendee8: Please don’t forget to email me for the next class….Thanks

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Chat Transcript of the Simplilearn Virtual class I on PMP Exam

As per the requests sent by many of the registrants,who missed out the class, we have posted here the whole transcript of the entire session. You shall go through them and post your any queries regarding them.

Here is the transcript:

Krishna was the instructor for the session.

Ajay: Hi Everyone, this is Ajay from Delhi. Looking forward to this session.

Krishna: Hi Ajay

Krishna: Hello Chakrapani, can you hear me

Ajay: Krishna, I can hear you

Chakrapani: Krishan, I am unable to establish the voice contact. I think I will only have to read the screen and sadly will not be able to hear you…. which would have been more powerful

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Yoav Reshef: I can hear you. I have no mouth peace.

Rajendra Gupta: I heard earlier but can not hear now. Please say hello testing or something.

Ajay: can we begin, its already 4:00 PM.

Srinivasan: I cannot hear you.

Ajay: or we will start at 4:00 pm IST (India stretchable time).

Srinivasan: Now I am able to hear you.

Ajay: Perfect.

Srinivasan: Thanks.

Chakrapani: Ajay most of us are facing problem hearing Krishna.. You would have to bear for couple of minutes.

Ajay: Friends, not a problem.

Krishna: try IE.

Krishna: i think there is problem with google chrome

Chakrapani: krishan.. the connection is established… I can see you too.. can you say something please?

Chakrapani: yep very clear

Chakrapani: thanks

Chakrapani: sure

Chakrapani: thanks for organising this session.

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Ajay: GOT THAT.

Rajendra Gupta: me too

Chakrapani: fine.

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Chakrapani: Krishna, here resources includes man,material, money etc..right?

Chakrapani: sure.

Raju: yes.

Srinivasan: Yes.

Rajendra Gupta: yes it is clear.

Ajay: you are right, most of us dont think about them.

Rajendra Gupta: yes.

Rajendra Gupta: it is clear.

Raju: yes.

Ajay: yups.

Rajendra Gupta: yes

Ajay: thinking.

Rajendra Gupta: building construction can start only after design has happened.

Ajay: like we can designing and documentation in parallel.

Srinivasan: While the construction is on, we can start creating doors, windows etc.

Srinivasan: This is to shrink the duration of project.

Rajendra Gupta: there is no start to start in these.

Ajay: srinivasn has given the answer.

Rajendra Gupta: I mean it is not needed.

Ajay: project has some specific result and time frame.

Srinivasan: Time and resource optimization can be achieved.

Srinivasan: Its clear.

Ajay: its clear.

Rajendra Gupta: voice is clear.

Raju: its clear.

Rajendra Gupta: Documentation and coding can have finish to finish.

Ajay: until mockup is frozen, we cannot go for htmlisation.

Ajay: yes.

Ajay: finish to start.

Rajendra Gupta: test case specs prep and program specs can also have FF.

Ajay: Got that.

Chakrapani: like you rightly said only fs or ss is most commonly used even in ms project.

Chakrapani: ok.

Ajay: yes.

Mukund Pande: yes.

Chakrapani: yes.

Chakrapani: yes.

Rajendra Gupta: yes we can see and hear properly.

Chakrapani: why not fixed duration.

Mukund Pande: excuse me, how to maximize and see the chat screen also.

Mukund Pande: ok.

Chakrapani: right.

Ajay: work means efforts for the task.

Ajay: activities.

Ajay: Got that.

Chakrapani: generally in construction projects we prefer fixed duration.

Chakrapani: can you repeat.

Chakrapani: your voice broke.

Chakrapani: generally because the duration of a particular activity is know.

Srinivasan: His quesiton is “Why would be prefer fixed duration”?

Chakrapani: no.

Chakrapani: i do not have a mike here.

Rajendra Gupta: maybe you can write.

Chakrapani: say for concreting.

Chakrapani: we know that particular cum will take fixed duration.

Chakrapani: so you can have a combi of fixed duration and fixed effort.

Srinivasan: But for all the activities we must know the duration even before we go in for preparing the schedule.

Rajendra Gupta: You mean the fixed just cannot change.

Srinivasan: But unless we know the duration we cannot define the project end date !!

Chakrapani: even if you select fixed work… you still need to define the duration.

Chakrapani: Krishna correct me in case of fixed work MSP takes the resources into consideration.

Srinivasan: Effort / Resources will give you the duration.

Chakrapani: right.

Chakrapani: yes.

Chakrapani: yes.

Chakrapani: krishan what is work hours that you have defined in the calender.

Srinivasan: Could you please change one of the type to Fixed duration and show the difference between Fixed Unit and Fixed Work.

Srinivasan: Could you please show the difference between Fixed Work and Fixed Duration in our example.

Srinivasan: Thanks.

Chakrapani: ok.

Chakrapani: i asked because it matters during the calculation of duration.

Chakrapani: yes.

Srinivasan: Even the holidays do impact the schedule.

Chakrapani: right.

Raju: can we add the public holidays?.

Srinivasan: That would be excellent. Thanks.

Chakrapani: raju.. you will have to add all the holidays before you start the scheduling.

Raju: ok.

Raju: it will be more clear.

Chakrapani: yes.. that will be really helpful.

Chakrapani: ok.

Ajay: that really makes sense.

Rajendra Gupta: How many sessions are planned for the training and what is the schedule.

Chakrapani: yes… i think we must continue with time management.

Rajendra Gupta: It is very good. Thanks.

Rajendra Gupta: publishing will be great.

Rajendra Gupta: the schedule.

Ajay: perfect

Rajendra Gupta: how many students have logged in right now

Chakrapani: that sounds good.

Ajay: that sounds like a plan.

Rajendra Gupta: that is nice.

Rajendra Gupta: 15 is good.

Chakrapani: thats great.

Rajendra Gupta: I have a question.

Rajendra Gupta: After registering for the test, within how much time do we have to attend the online test. Is there min or max.

Rajendra Gupta: yes on pmi.

Ajay: 6 months.

Chakrapani: generally you get 1 year time.

Rajendra Gupta: is there any min time.

Rajendra Gupta: i mean is there gap after registering.

Rajendra Gupta: ok.

Rajendra Gupta: So no log.

Chakrapani: once your get confirmation on your registration with.

Rajendra Gupta: lag

Ajay: your application should be approved.

Chakrapani: pmi for the exam they give you 1 year to take the exam.

Rajendra Gupta: Do they take recommendations?.

Chakrapani: i.e. 1 year from the date you get confirmation to pay the fees.

Rajendra Gupta: ok.

Chakrapani: i am taking the exam on 23rd dec 09.

Chakrapani: 10% of the application gets audited.

Srinivasan: All the best Chakrapani.

Rajendra Gupta: where on 23rd.

Chakrapani: yes.

Chakrapani: actually running short of time.

Chakrapani: thanks a lot.

Chakrapani: bangalore.

Rajendra Gupta: looking forward to see the schedule and attend the next online session.

Raju: how many sessions you are scheduling for this?

Chakrapani: ok

Rajendra Gupta: Congrats and thanks.

Srinivasan: Yes. I think I read somewhere that you will be able to clear the exam if you spend 2 hours every day, you will be able to complete the PMP.
Chakrapani: is there any?

Chakrapani: krishna i could not get you?

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Chakrapani: yes.

Srinivasan: Study groups is the best way.

Rajendra Gupta: yes.

Srinivasan: Even recommended by Rita.

Chakrapani: i have a study group in person.

Raju: ok.

Ajay: when are you holding next class.

Srinivasan: Krishna, I think you are doing a great job. Thanks a lot on behalf of all.

Chakrapani: will try and do that.

Chakrapani: but what i find is that you should meet only once or twice a month for the study group.

Rajendra Gupta: My suggestion is to move the class to 6 PM IST from 4 PM.
Raju: yes this is good idea.

Mukund Pande: how to reach the portal.

Raju: thank you.

Mukund Pande: ok.

Krishna: www.simplilearn.com.

Chakrapani: for the rest of the time individual effort is the best.

Srinivasan: Please have it as 4PM.

Chakrapani: thanks krishna.

Mukund Pande: thks a lot..

Srinivasan: Most of us are having calls at 6 PM.

Rajendra Gupta: by that time we would have finished the PMP exam
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Ajay: we will be covering same topic during that time.

Rajendra Gupta: sure.

Ajay: ?

Chakrapani: krishan you are based out of US?

Rajendra Gupta: Once again, it works. Congrats and thanks.

Ajay: thanks a lot its a great start.

Srinivasan: Thanks a lot.

Raju: thanks a lot.

Mukund Pande: thks.

Srinivasan: Have a great weekend

Chakrapani: thanks.

Chat Transcript of Simplilearn Virtual class I on Project Risk Management

Thanks to all the participants for your interests and also for making the class a successful one. Below is the chat transcript of the class that our learners can go through to have a glimpse of the class.

Mr. Krishna,PMP was the instructor of the session.

Welcome to your Web Meeting.

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Srini: Hi Good Evening

Manish Manekar: Greetings!

Sougat Mitra: Good Evening Everybody.

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Srini: Hi Krishna, are we waiting for more participants to join?

Srini: Thanks.

Ajay Khullar: yes

Sougat Mitra: yes

Rakesh Kumar: yes

Rakesh Kumar: which positively or, negatively influence the delivery

Rakesh Kumar: yes

Srini: Technology could turn out to be positive when we work on a new technology. In reality it could be easily adoptable by our developers and team members.

Rakesh Kumar: like the emil functionality proposed were too complex and the other solution might be good to implement

Rakesh Kumar: right

Sougat Mitra: no sound

Srini: you are audible to us.

Manish Manekar: I can hear.

Mayank: its fine

Sougat Mitra: r u still in the Slide#1

Angelo Muscaridola: I can hear too

Srini: He is in slide no 3 displayed at the bottom .

Manish Manekar: it shows slide 3 of 20

Rakesh Kumar: Is it not the same as Risk Tolerance?

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Srini: Threshold has a limit.

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Rakesh Kumar: got it

Srini: Yes

Srini: Thanks Krishna.

Rakesh Kumar: is there a way to calculate the exact probability? or, it is your expectations.

Srini: Your experience..

Rakesh Kumar: right

Ajay Khullar: yes, thats only way

Srini: Lessons learnt and historical data

Ajay Khullar: I agree with Srini.

Rakesh Kumar: right

Yoav Reshef: clear

Ajay Khullar: yes

Rakesh Kumar: yep

Angelo Muscaridola: yes

Srini: Any tax applied on the imports would increase the cost of a machinery that is to be imported.

Angelo Muscaridola: possibly weather conditions?

Srini: Nope.. Guess..

Sougat: Any Environmental Constraint.

Srini: Absolutely..

Rakesh Kumar: right, scope creep

Rakesh Kumar: one more internal risk……..other project running in the organization.

Rakesh Kumar: that might impact your project in either way

Rakesh Kumar: dependecy on resources

Rakesh Kumar: right

Ajay Khullar: if resources are working on cross projects

Manish Manekar: reorganization

Ajay Khullar: right

Ajay Khullar: exactly

Rakesh Kumar: I didn’t get your question…

Rakesh Kumar: right

Srini: Backuplocation..

Rakesh Kumar: will Accept the risk

Rakesh Kumar: Risk Acceptance

Srini: From where we should continue our operation.

Ajay Khullar: one way is to have backup location

Manish Manekar: Disaster Recovery Plan

Sougat: Establishing Disaster Recovery centre

Srini: Business Continutity Plan

Rakesh Kumar: but, we should be preventive….as someone has written backup.

Rakesh Kumar: right

Yoav Reshef: Even small company should put a contingency plan in place ? even for external risk ?

Rakesh Kumar: hmmmmm right

Srini: Krishna is right. Its not possible for all the companies.

Srini: True.

Srini: Gap in the requirements understanding.

Ajay Khullar: Krishna, are you going to send us the slides?

Yoav Reshef: So, you actualy saying that the “plan” is, if the risk happens , we stop the project ?

Ajay Khullar: k

Yoav Reshef: OK.

Srini: We cannot do away with these kind of risks, we can only minimize the impact.

Rakesh Kumar: Yoav, there are risks where you have no option rather than accepting it, example can earth quake or anything.

Rakesh Kumar: It is a concept in risk Management, where you accept the risk

Manish Manekar: Yes, clear.

Yoav Reshef: clear

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Srini: Hope you dont own a new car showroom

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Srini: Can we call it as a Logical grouping

Rakesh Kumar: yes

Srini: Yes

Ajay Khullar: yes

Angelo Muscaridola: yes

Yoav Reshef: clear

Bipul Sahay: krishna once more on control acct

Srini: For example, your project might need multiple software to procure. Instead of mentioning at each software, you can group it as a software expense. This is more for the management to monitor.

Ajay Khullar: yes

Bipul Sahay: thsnks

Yoav Reshef: Can one say that padding is contingency reserve when you cannot esstimate impact and probanility ? Where is the risk cost when you can calculate risk * prob.

Rakesh Kumar: Yoav, you put padding once you identified and quantified the risks

Srini: Based on their experience management would add some reserve.

Yoav Reshef: We found 2 risks, and clculated the value of the risk. Do we add that to project cost ? Where in the tree ? Is that the contingency reserve ?

Rakesh Kumar: yes

Ajay Khullar: yes, we will add this cost in contingency reserve

Yoav Reshef: OK

Rakesh Kumar: Krishna, it is right that management reserve is based on management experiences…

Rakesh Kumar: but it would not add etra cost if the PM has done good analysis on risks

Srini: But in practical, we come to know most of the risks only when we receive the clear requirements where as we present the cost of the project at the time of proposal.

Rakesh Kumar: hmmm

Srini: Yes, Infact based on the project manager also the management would decide to add the reserve based on their experience with the PM.

Sougat: How Control Accotnt cost is 900$

Srini: 3 * 300

Sougat: ok

Srini: Planned cost = Project + Contingency Reserve

Srini: Identify the Probability

Srini: Identify the impact

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Rakesh Kumar: I think, we can also add “Risk Register” after point 2

Srini: Yes. Output of point 2 is Risk Register..

Rakesh Kumar: right

Rakesh Kumar: are we going to discuss it tomorrow?

Rakesh Kumar: ok

Rakesh Kumar: good

Sougat: Which one is the favourable scenario out of the 2 cases

Sougat: right

Bipul Sahay: AC=EV-PV

Srini: You mean cost to the customer?

Bipul Sahay: ok

Srini: Budgeted Cost + Profit Margin

Sougat: Work*Resource Cost

Yoav Reshef: You add all the money that was sepnd. On planned activity ar on solving problems arise from risks.

Ajay Khullar: so far

Srini: Thanks Krishna.

Yoav Reshef: Thank you.

Srini: Have a good evening everyone.

Attendee12: Hi all

Sougat: Thanks Krishna and Others.

Bipul Sahay: thanks

Sougat: K

Rakesh Kumar: thanks

Ajay Khullar: Thanks