Do your IT development managers know what they are doing?

Answer #1: Certainly
If you answered this way, you should be working at a fast food place. You want fries with that?

Answer #2: You've got to be kidding. (Right answer)

(PMP: Project Management Professional)

How many IT managers have you known who don't have a clue about managing a project? PMP certification teaches them how to track project effort and dollar$, maximize billable hours, and minimize costs (your salary). Those are very important items for management training, but they're not all there is to managing a project.

Our tongue-in-cheek iPhone app supplements PMP training with a light-hearted look at project management. It teaches you methods that we have observed on many projects ‐ methods that can cripple a project, demoralize the staff, and leave the project late and overbudget.

If you just strive to do the opposite of what the app teaches you, you'll be a reasonably good project manager. You'll be appreciated by your team, but your managers may not appreciate you saving the client so much money. After all, the PM’s job is to spend the budget.

This version also includes a handy Earned Value (EV) calculator. If you need a more sophisticated EV calculator, you probably already have someone on your project responsible for maintaining earned value data.