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PMP requirements in 2026: education, experience and 35 hours of training
Education, experience from the last 10 years and 35 hours of training: PMI's eligibility table and what changes for live courses.
How much does the PMP exam cost in 2026
PMP exam fee for PMI members: $405 standard, $284 for candidates in Ukraine. Membership, the full budget and the All inclusive package.
Don't Cry for Me, Velocity
Frameworks buy a project eleven points of success, yet my least orthodox client still hits its numbers. What PMI's new Agile Practice Guide says about velocity, retrospectives and what a project manager is actually for.
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What measurably changed
Microsoft Planner adoption for project teams: training, guides, mentoring
Industry: Project-based organisation · Service: PMO as a service. Planning tool adoption. Under the PMO's umbrella, INSTAR moved the organisation's project managers and coordinators to shared planning in Planner: online training for 50+ people, a detailed guide, video lessons in the corporate LMS, templates and mentoring. About 100 users; roughly a third work in the tool daily, another half use it to control delivery. This became the base for automated management reporting.
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Project management maturity diagnostics across 11 organisations and the development programme built on the results
Industry: Civil society, donor-funded programmes · Service: Project management maturity diagnostics. Within three months, using INSTAR's proprietary methodology, 11 of a donor's partner organisations received a maturity assessment across 11 domains based on a questionnaire and 100+ documents. A development programme was built on that data: a tailored online course, training, practice exchange, mentoring, PMP preparation. A repeat measurement is planned.
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A custom programme and portfolio management application on Microsoft Power Platform
Industry: Digitalisation services, nationwide · Service: Corporate project management system implementation. Automation. In half a year the organisation moved from narrative reports with financial figures to data-driven management: programmes, roadmaps, scope and risks in one system, automatic alerts, dashboards for the portfolio committee, the supervisory board and clients.
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