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Top Project Management Conferences of 2020

ProjectManager.com

It’s a great time to further your education, keep up on your certification and get a chance to rub shoulders with others in your field from all over the world. Attendees can earn up to 12 PDUs towards their PMP certification. For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013.

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Why PMPs Should Actually Read the PMBOK 6th Edition

Project Risk Coach

I’m glad I got my certification behind me.” PMI conducts Role Delineation Studies for each certification every five to seven years. Things have changed significantly since PMI published the PMBOK Guide 5 th Edition in 2013. The Sixth Edition includes current content on agile and other iterative and adaptive practices.

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What is Agile Project Management?

MPUG

According to the 15 th State of Agile Report, 94% of companies are practicing Agile. This statistic is somewhat misleading as it does not mean that all of these companies are receiving benefits or even successful with their Agile approach. That said, many companies are trying to find ways to incorporate Agile methods.

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Is Your Agile Project Healthy?

Velociteach

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble.

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Why PMPs Should Actually Read the PMBOK 6th Edition

Project Risk Coach

I’m glad I got my certification behind me.” PMI conducts Role Delineation Studies for each certification every five to seven years. Things have changed significantly since PMI published the PMBOK Guide 5 th Edition in 2013. The Sixth Edition includes current content on agile and other iterative and adaptive practices.

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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

We have three kids (2001, 2003, 2013) of which the two oldest (sons) have a disability ( Duchenne and Down Syndrome ). It wasn’t when I abandoned a position of Principal Consultant and a future higher-up the ladder function at a large international consulting company (2013). Let there be no misunderstanding: money is important.

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5 Whys to Explore Scrum with an independent Scrum Caretaker

Gunther Verheyen

I embarked on my Agile journey in 2003 when we wrapped eXtreme Programming in Scrum. From 2013-2016 I maintained the official “Professional Scrum” series of Scrum.org meanwhile training candidate-PSTs and shepherding the global community of Professional Scrum Trainers and coaches. It’s fine to not just take my word for it.

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