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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can earn PDUs (professional development units) for ongoing certification renewal, such as for the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, from reading. I’ve read, I’m guessing, over 150 management books in my career, and you can read my book reviews if you want to trawl through the archives. How many PDUs can you get for reading?

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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

At regular intervals, teams review their performance and identify ways to improve. Read the article: [link] If you are interested in learning more about applying Agile to non-technology domains, check out my new course. He also holds multiple Agile certifications from Disciplined Agile, Scrum Alliance, and Scaled Agile.

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The 2021 Project Management Report

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The top career goal is certification. The top career goal for project managers is gaining a certification. Perhaps that’s why so many people want to take their development into their own hands, earn a certification and get a new job. As we’ve seen, the top goal for project managers is certification.

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What Makes Agile Transformations Successful? Results From A Scientific Study

Scrum.org

And what about the socio-technical skills of Developers? In this post, I summarize the findings from an academic peer-reviewed publication by Daniel Russo (2021), a professor at the University of Aalborg. management support, technical skills) while everything else is kept equal. Good research always builds on earlier research.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

A recent article in Harvard Business Review described “How AI Will Transform Project Management”. AI and related technologies offer the opportunity to shape-shift the profession. However, the project manager, resource managers, and team members would still be required to review and validate the plan. I say, “Bring it on!”

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Everyday Agile Practices

The IIL Blog

This includes all the customer-facing features and technical updates required to enhance or maintain the product. First, the team and the product owner review the items on the product backlog. During the iteration, the team builds and tests small increments of work, and the product owner reviews and approves it.

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How a growth mindset has helped in my journey to become a PST

Scrum.org

To be honest, I was against certifications, but in my classes and sometime in my teams I had people with certifications challenging my knowledge and the content I was teaching without arguments, just because they had the certification and I didn’t. I will explain the peer review at the end of this article.

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