Hum, Tum Connected with "Connected Hum-Tum"

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 : Hum, Tum aur "Connected Hum-Tum" all came together to decipher the code behind the latter one. All the leading ladies of the series were revealed in-front of more than 100 IndiBloggers by the none other than the Director Paromita Vohra herself.

A Fun filled evening with few witty ice-breakers from IndiBloggers team and Zee Team were just perfact to ensure the involvement of all the IndiBloggers.

Six Participants of the Connected Hum-Tum with names Preeti Kochar, Pallavi Barman, Mahima Chaudhary, Sonal Giani, Madhavi Mauskar, and last but not the least Mumbai's very own Malishka Mendonca opened themselves in front of the bloggers.

A special preview of the series for us was a really good gesture from the Zee. I personally found many of us, regardless of sex or age, would be able to connect to all or at least some stories of the participants life. For ex. one line from the preview really explains the pain of a lady, portrayed by Preeti, when her husband goes for the work on Sunday, kid falls asleep and she remains on herself to ponder upon how her life is going. Similarly, the pain of a girl, portrayed by Sonal, when she says that she still hopes that the family of her boy-friend will accept her one day.

Although I had thought that this would be just another reality show shot with moving cameras, I found the stories in it more real (even though I accept that there would be few manipulations here & there after all it is for entertainment of the audience).

Let's see if audience at large gives it a "aaj kuch tufaani karte hein" :-)

More details @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected_HumTum
http://www.indiblogger.in/bloggermeet.php?id=206

PMP Preparation Guidelines

Many people have been requesting for the guidelines for PMP preparation. So posting this on the Knome to enable everybody's access to this. This was from my own and one of my PMP Circle Mates (Tanveer Shaikh's) preparation for PMP one year back.

During first 3 months of my preparations, my focus was more on learning concepts of various project management methodolologies, in last 15 days I gave many full length tests that helped me in gauging my preparation level over time.

Books Recommended : 

- PMBOK Official guide

- PMP Exam Prep - Rita Mulchy

Total Preparation Duration : 

3-4 months

You may use following few points as a guideline to prepare yourself.

1) If you start with PMBOK but you'll find it boring and difficult to understand.

2) If possible create a study circle of fellow PMP aspirants

3) Read PMP Rita Mulcahy.

4) Get a copy of RITA Process game (from the Rita Mulchy book) and practice with it every alternate day. It will ensure that you imbibed the PMBOK processes logically in yourself

5) Register for PMI Membership - it enables you to seek discount on PMP exam

6) Read PMBOK. Now, this book would not be that boring and would make much more sense

7) Register for PMP Exam - it takes couple of hours in gathering all the material that is required to fill the application form

8) Once Application form is approved, you may go and seek the exam appointment

9) Practice with following free online tests

- http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=350915&rl=1 (70 que) - Tough Nut ; Lengthy Questions

- http://www.preparepm.com/mock2.html (28 Qns)

- http://www.pmstudy.com/enroll.asp - (15 qns)

- http://www.techfaq360.com/pmp_4thedition.jsp (200 Qns) - Easy; Wrong Scoring; NOT SUGGESTED

- http://www.passpm.com (50 qns) - NOT SUGGESTED

- http://www.pmsuccess.biz/Free_Simulated_Test.asp (100 qns)    -    Seems precise to PMP

- http://www.pmzilla.com/pmzilla-free-pmp-tests - (25 qns)

- http://certchamp.com/pmp-sample-questions.jsp (200 Qns) - In the spreadsheet - Repeat of many questions done already - NOT SUGGESTED

- http://www.preparepm.com/mock1.html (70 Qns) - few good questions

- http://www.oliverlehmann.com/pmp-self-test/75-free-questions.htm - Few very detailed numericals

- http://edwelprograms.com/  - Few very tricky questions, few answers are wrong

- PMP Prep - PMP Exam   -Many questions were already done as part of RITA

- PMP Prep - SuperPMP Exam- questions were lengthy, scenario based. Few questions were repeat from other RITA tests

- http://www.ajithn.com/login.php (200 Qns) - Many wrong answers given on test.  - NOT SUGGESTED

- http://www.pmstudy.com/practicetestsindex.asp (200 qsn) - Seems Very close to PMP, found few answers arguably incorrect.

10) Revised through Rita Mulchy. - 3-4 days before actual exam

11) Revised through PMBOK - 2nd time. - 2 days before actual exam

Note : 

Currently PMP is based on PMBOK 4th edition. PMI is going to change the base of PMP exam to PMBOK 5th Edition from Aug 1, 2013. So ensure that you are following correct course material as per your target exam date.

Hope this information helps. Should any of you need more information, I am just a click away.