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7 Steps To A Project Management Capability Assessment

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As a program manager, PMO or project team leader, you probably think about how to plan upcoming work. It’s easy to think that certification is the answer to developing capability in your project managers, but it’s better to take a step back from that. Survey your stakeholders Who benefits from the skills of the project delivery team?

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Project Management Training to Help You Achieve Certification This Year

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Project Management Training to Help You Achieve Certification This Year , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Are you looking to do a project management training course or take a certificate course this year? Certification: CAPM®, PMP®. Certification: PMP®, CAPM®, PMI-ACP®.

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But you will benefit from a project management certification such as PMP® , CAPM® or PRINCE2® in order to get a job as a project manager. There are lots of online courses that make it easy to take a short certification program. Oh, that’s what I actually did do! In my experience, job titles vary hugely between employers.

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The 2021 Project Management Report

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We surveyed 220 project managers to better understand what it’s like to work in project delivery. This probably speaks to the self-selecting nature of the survey respondents in both cases. The top career goal is certification. The top career goal for project managers is gaining a certification.

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What can I do with a degree in project management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Trust me, if you are good at what you do, can demonstrate project management best practices and have the certifications to back you up, you’ll get a job. It’s worth checking if your degree will give you credit towards the Project Management Professional ( PMP )® certification. In my experience, job titles vary hugely between employers.

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15 Easy-to-Do Types of Professional Development

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Whether you want to achieve a certification , gain more confidence, build your technical skills or something else — it isn’t going to happen unless you make it happen. There are even free project management certificates you can do, completely online. You’ll never know unless you sign up for one and go along.

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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the APM Salary and Market Trends survey 2021 , 61% of respondents reported that working from home options were an important criterion for choosing a new role, up from 52% in 2020. I’ve written in the past about the results of my survey into why people are leaving project management. Think about how your PMO teams are rewarded.

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