2008 Krezner Award for Project Managers

This is the 'International Project Manager of the Year' Award which is organized by International Institute of Learning Inc. (http://www.iil.com/)

Established in 2006 by International Institute of Learning Inc. (IIL), this award is named in honor of Dr. Harold Kerzner, Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin-Wallace College. Dr. Kerzner is the leading globally recognized expert on project management, total quality management, and strategic planning as well as the author of best-selling books about project management

Currently the nomination is going on for this award. The nomination deadline is September 12, 2008. For the complete rules and detailed information, go to www.iil.com.

Nominate any project manager with a current PMP® credential by answering a series of questions that will clearly explain how the nominee has successfully achieved project objectives through specific contributions, innovation and the use of defined project management practices

The winner will receive:

• Recognition at IIL’s International Project Management Day Awards Ceremony and Reception in New York City
• All expenses paid trip to New York City
• Opportunity to present their PowerPoint presentation during IIL’s Global Webcast on International Project Management Day™ to several thousand participants around the world. This includes an invitation to present the PowerPoint presentation at PMI North America in 2009 at the IIL booth.
• Lunch with IIL’s senior management and guest speakers for the Webcast
• Press coverage on the IIL websites and allpm.com and other project management publications. This includes a full page in PMNET of Dr. Kerzner presenting the award.
• Course voucher for any $5,000 IIL training course
• Commemorative plaque
• Cash donation to the winner’s PMI Chapter (if applicable) in the amount of $3000

Agnoff Technique

This is the technique PMP uses it for evaluating the marks. In PMP you would get 200 questions with 4 hours time limit. So roughly 1.2 minutes per question.

In the exam you would need to attend all questions. Now comes the fun part. They randomly pull out some 25 questions of it and then calculate the marks (only with 175 questions).

There could be possibility that all 25 questions could be right and it could have been pulled out.

This is what they call i Agnoff technique by which they made the exam process tougher. Earlier it used to be from 200 questions you should be scoring some 60% which was easier. Now with this process one needs to put more effort. This came in-hand with the latest release (PMBOK 3rd edition)