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cPrime Ranks among the Top 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies on Inc. 500.

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cPrime, a project management consulting, staffing and training firm continues to gain market share at an impressive rate, reporting a 693% growth over the last three years. cPrime provides specialized IT project management solutions for individual and enterprise companies across the Fortune 500. This accomplishment marks the second year in a row that cPrime has earned this honor.

Foster City, CA. August 25rd 2010 – cPrime, a project management consulting, staffing and training firm was recognized today on Inc. 500’s list of fastest growing private companies in the United States for 2010. This year, cPrime ranked #433 across the Inc 5000 annual ranking list, ranking 35th for the IT project management industry as a whole. Last year, cPrime was also recognized by Inc. 500, recording a growth of 1,054% over ther prior 3 year period. They continue to push through the constraints of a challenging economy and deliver portfolio, program and project management governance solutions, CIO Services, methodology implementations and thought leadership success across the IT Project Management space. cPrime shares this prestigious award with such notable alumni as Intuit, Zappos, Microsoft, Visa, Oracle and other many other inspirational companies.

For 2010, cPrime has a growth rate of 693% over the last 3 years, growing from three full-time employees in 2003 to forty eight employees in 2009, with total revenue exceeding $4.7 million. The growth is due to the rapid expansion of their project management practice supported by their prestigious training curriculum consisting of project management classes in Agile, PMP®, PgMP®, ITIL and CBAP®. They continue to serve as the single resource for all consulting, staffing and training engagements. cPrime services numerous fortune 500 companies across a wide variety of industries from retail and ecommerce to technology and government.

The recent growth has facilitated the opening of a Los Angeles Office and a national presence giving them the ability to bring their solutions to a substantially greater audience.

CEO, Zubin Irani explains, “To win this prestigious award is one that only a select few companies ever win, and for us to accomplish this great feat for the second year in a row speaks to the incredible commitment, passion and talent of everyone at cPrime”. He continues, “I’m proud of what we have accomplished as a team, and even more excited about all the great things I know we will accomplish together in the future”.

cPrime continues to specialize in IT project and program management services, giving them an edge over traditional companies who spread across numerous fields with a volume based solutions approach. They have recently become a major contributor of Scrum and Agile Development, assisting companies looking to make the transition into Agile and Scrum from traditional project management methodologies. The interest in Scrum and Agile methodologies is widespread among companies looking to adapt to today’s real-time demands. cPrime has established a national presence in the Agile space, and hopes to continue their run as the benchmark for success across the Agile project management lifecycle.

cPrime’s Project Management Training Center has quickly made its way to becoming the Premier Training Center for IT Professionals and the leader in Agile and Scrum training with more students certified in Scrum than any other company in California. They provide popular project management certification training courses for public and private sector to include the Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Preparation (PMP) course and the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course. cPrime is one of the few training providers in the country that is a Registered Education Provider for both the Scrum Alliance and Project Management Institute. Professionals looking to certify their project management experience and knowledge take these courses to stay at the forefront of project management and stand out by delivering excellence in project management.

cPrime’s consulting engagements consist of portfolio, program and project management solutions for fortune 500 companies. Their consultants have an average of 15 years of industry experience and have successfully delivered complex projects from Fortune 500 Companies to start-ups and small businesses. By leveraging their consultants, a well stocked bench of readily available candidates and hand picked partners, cPrime consulting is able to provide turn-key CIO Services. From one consultant to an entire development team, cPrime’s personnel solutions are geared for total project success.

Agile | Waterfall & Uncertainty in Project Management | Dr. Kevin Thompson – cPrime

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In these series of videos, Dr. Kevin Thompson compares and contrasts Agile projects with Waterfall projects and shows the affects of each when facing uncertainty. Kevin conducts a methodology experiment and shows why Agile projects succeed when others fail.

How Uncertainty Works

All estimates are subject to uncertainty, and project schedules are no exception. A schedule consists of a set of tasks, which are executed at times dictated by dependencies and resources. The simplest schedule, consists of a set of tasks that are executed one after the other.

The schedule for a project contains uncertainty because the estimated effort or duration of each task has some uncertainty associated with it. We would really like to know exactly how long a task will take. If we can’t know that, we would at least like to know how much uncertainty is associated with the task. Unfortunately, we will never know the first, and usually will never know the second, either. (The exception to the latter rule is for tasks that are repeated, identically, enough times for us to collect meaningful statistics about them.) Read the full article about Estimation and Uncertainty.

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cPrime Launches New Agile Development & Scrum Project Management Courses

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cPrime Inc., a leader in Project Management and IT Certification training courses continues to develop and provide new courses in Scrum and Agile Methodologies.

Foster City, CA, (PRWEB) May 11, 2010 — cPrime declares the expansion of its project management curriculum by introducing two new courses, the Certified Product Owner Training Course (CSPO) and the Certified Scrum Developer Training Course (CSD) targeting Project Managers, Program Developers, and Certified Scrum Masters who are looking to continue to build their knowledge and ability in agile project management and scrum methodologies. These courses provide PM professionals with novel and modern methodologies of Agile and Scrum project development along with earning Professional Development Units (PDUs).

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Development Teams, Product Managers, Project Managers as well as well as customers and vendors will benefit from professionals using Agile development and the Scrum framework. Some of the many benefits include; reducing non-productive work, high project visibility, and making the alignment between development work and customer needs an easy goal by providing frequent opportunities to re-prioritize work.

cPrime is proud to comprise only the most outstanding professors with the most sought after talent teaching it’s Project Management courses.

The Certified Product Owner training course offers an interactive curriculum from cPrime’s Certified Agile Coach, Roger Brown, who provides training, consulting and coaching services in Agile software development areas including Scrum project management, and enterprise agile adoption. Brown is one of four people in the world to hold all certificates granted by the Scrum Alliance including Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified Scrum Coach.

The Scrum Developer Certification Course provides technical practices for extreme programming. Scrum’s Incremental-iterative approach to software development requires development teams to find, learn, and implement solid technical practices. In recognition of this, the Scrum Alliance has created the Certified Scrum Developer program. cPrime’s CSD course is the first to meet the Scrum Alliance requirements for training in support of the CSD rating. cPrime’s CSD course is taught by Ron Jefferies, one of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto and has been involved with Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Agile for over ten years.

Zubin Irani, CEO of cPrime explains, “cPrime is proud to comprise only the most outstanding professors with the most sought after talent teaching it’s Project Management courses. This way, cPrime ensures every professional taking our courses are learning only the best practices for their Project management needs”.
A list of courses, detailed course descriptions, and registration information is available at www.cprime.com/training

About cPrime:
cPrime is a project management consulting, staffing and training services company on the front lines of technology and methodology. Our consulting engagements help clients transform the way they deliver projects giving them the critical ability to meet the pace and quality required in today’s market. Our comprehensive life cycle services provide end-to-end processes that increase your project success rate while establishing project governance across the enterprise. From audits and assessments to advanced methodology implementations, our leadership teams mentor organizations through Agile Development and methodology shifts. Our customized training solutions are structured to provide the understanding, preparation, and real world experience to help organizations and individuals achieve industry recognized certifications, earn professional development units (PDUs) and advance their career.

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