I wanted to contribute my lessons learned to the site, as reading through some of the lessons learned here helped me to prepare for the PMP exam.

Work Background:

I have about 3 years of managing IT projects, but this is spread out over 6 years.  While the projects were all successful, I did not use (or even aware) of the best practices that are described in the PMBOK.

For the past 1.5 years I have been a dedicated project manager and have been much more involved in the management of the 9 PM knowledge areas.