All Episodes
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Episode 1 — PMI-RMP: Role, Value, and Career Paths
The PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) credential validates applied competence in identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk across delivery approa...
Episode 2 — Who Should Pursue PMI-RMP (and Why)
This episode helps you decide if PMI-RMP aligns with your background and goals by mapping common starting points—project managers, schedulers, business analysts, PMO s...
Episode 3 — Eligibility, Application, and Audit Steps
Here we clarify PMI-RMP eligibility pathways so you can plan without guesswork. We translate the formal requirements into practical checklists: education, months of pr...
Episode 4 — Exam Format, Domains, and Weightings
This episode removes uncertainty about the exam experience by detailing structure, timing, question counts, and navigation features you can expect at the test center o...
Episode 5 — Question Styles, Difficulty, and Timing
Understanding question construction is a competitive advantage, so we unpack common styles: single-best-answer, multi-step scenario, choose-the-first/next action, and ...
Episode 6 — Study Roadmap and Weekly Cadence
This episode converts the exam blueprint into a practical study plan you can actually follow. We begin by aligning domain weightings to weekly sprints so heavier areas...
Episode 7 — Ethics, Professional Conduct, and Policies
Ethics questions test judgment under pressure, so this episode clarifies professional responsibility as a risk function, not just a compliance checkbox. We frame integ...
Episode 8 — Delivery Approaches: Predictive, Agile, Hybrid
Risk practice changes with cadence, so we compare predictive, Agile, and hybrid approaches through the lens of artifacts, timing, and decision rights. In predictive en...
Episode 9 — Domain I Overview: Risk Strategy & Planning
Domain I sets the foundation for everything that follows, so we unpack its building blocks: risk strategy, governance choices, roles and responsibilities, cadence, and...
Episode 10 — Preliminary Document Analysis: What to Extract
Before workshops begin, high-value insights already sit in existing documents. This episode teaches you what to extract from charters, statements of work, contracts, b...
Episode 11 — Mining Charters, SOWs, and Contracts
This episode continues the document review process by explaining how to interpret charters, statements of work (SOWs), and contracts as sources of early risk data. Eac...
Episode 12 — Environmental Assessment: Internal and External
Every project operates within two environments: the internal organizational setting and the external context that shapes risk dynamics. This episode teaches you to sca...
Episode 13 — Culture and Risk Maturity Explained
Risk culture defines how openly teams discuss uncertainty, and risk maturity measures how consistently they act on it. This episode clarifies both ideas, since many PM...
Episode 14 — Appetite, Tolerance, and Thresholds
The trio of appetite, tolerance, and thresholds lies at the heart of risk strategy, so this episode explains them in precise, exam-ready language. Appetite expresses h...
Episode 15 — Eliciting Appetite from Executives
When executives cannot articulate appetite clearly, risk professionals must facilitate productive discussion to define it. This episode teaches structured elicitation ...
Episode 16 — Crafting the Risk Strategy: Big Decisions
This episode turns appetite, tolerance, and thresholds into an actionable risk strategy that guides choices before pressure mounts. We define the big decisions you mus...
Episode 17 — Governance, Roles, and Cadence
Governance turns strategy into disciplined behavior, so this episode clarifies decision rights, responsibilities, and meeting rhythms that keep risk work timely. We ma...
Episode 18 — Writing the Risk Management Plan
The risk management plan is the blueprint for how your project treats uncertainty, and the exam expects you to know what belongs in it and why. We outline the essentia...
Episode 19 — Escalation Paths and Triggers
Escalation design determines whether risks are addressed while they are still cheap to handle, so this episode teaches you to connect specific triggers to clear paths ...
Episode 20 — Leading Stakeholder Risk Activities
Risk leadership is a facilitation craft, and this episode centers on how to engage sponsors, teams, vendors, and regulators productively. We cover framing discussions ...