Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 27, 2020

If you are like many Project Management Professional ( PMP )® certification holders, you might be finding it hard to source enough quality learning materials for your Leadership PDUs. What are Leadership PDUs? What are Leadership PDUs? Leadership PDUs form part of the Education requirement for recertification.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 28, 2022

Professional development should be a life (or at least career) long pursuit, and certifications provide tangible evidence of an individual investing in their development, so it would seem to be a reasonable question. ” or “Why are you seeking another certification?”

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2024

A simple tool we can use to understand our relationship to productivity and expand the possibilities is the creative versus reactive leadership lens. How frequently do you feel pressure to learn about the new trendy [fill in the blank] agile practice, read the books everyone is talking about, and keep getting more certifications?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

The Scrum.org Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I) assessment is a 60-minute timeboxed assessment. You need to score over 85% to pass and gain the PAL I certification. Take our Ultimate Agile Leadership Course to learn more about agile leadership. This book will really help if you haven’t attended a course.

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Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2022

Great, the PSPO I certification is valid for life, which means you don't have to renew it. When I did the certification, I already had several years of experience as a Product Owner. Nevertheless, the PSPO I certification is primarily a validation of knowledge. Please note that the book is based on the Scrum Guide 2017.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

Do you need to earn PDUs to maintain your PMI certification? If you hold a PMP ® , PgMP ® , PfMP ® or PMI-PBA ® certification, you need to earn 60 PDUs every three years. If you hold a PMI-ACP ® , PMI-RMP ® , PMI-SP ® certification, you need to earn 30 PDUs in a three-year cycle. You’re in the right place!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 10, 2022

If you are like many Project Management Professional ( PMP )® certification holders, you might be finding it hard to source enough quality learning materials for your Power Skills PDUs. Power Skills used to be known as Leadership Skills in the Talent Triangle but it was re-badged in 2022 to make it more relevant to the profession.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2024

If you are not leading the project or responsible for these things, or you DO have a change manager on the team, then the BEE Foundation certificate would give you a general, high-level overview of change management and you can do that instead. There are also plenty of good quality change management books if a training course is not for you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 20, 2023

Do you need PDUs for the Certified Associate in Project Management ( CAPM ) ® certificate? In this article I’ll explain what this means for CAPM certification holders and how you can maintain your credential without having to take the exam again. Yes, you do! What’s the story about PDUs for CAPM ? What’s the story about PDUs for CAPM

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This article, Bridging the PM Competency Gap [Book Review] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. There is no shortage of certification courses (and if you’re looking for support in that area here are some suggestions of reputable suppliers ). Do You Need This Book? Do your colleagues – especially the newer ones?

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Leadership isn’t just for the folks in the corner offices or those with years of experience under their belts. This blog is your roadmap to becoming not just a leader but a great leader through simple, effective leadership strategies. Identifying Leadership Potential We all have a spark of leadership in us.

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iZenBridge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Leadership PDUs are a valuable asset to embrace your leadership skills. Once you earn these leadership PDUs, you can apply them to PMP® certification or any other PMIs certification renewal. In this blog, I am sharing tips to earn PDUs for all PMIs certificates under the Leadership category.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

Is your re-certification cycle coming to an end for your PMI certificate? The PMI Continuing Certification Requirements guidelines are laid out in the CCR Handbook , which you can download from the PMI website. There are different requirements for each of the PMI certifications. You’re in the right place!

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

In my recent post, I discussed the value of Scrum certifications. In this post, I will focus on the value of the advanced Scrum certifications from Scrum.org. To date, less than 1500 people have passed these assessments and gained the associated certifications. This has always struck me as a low number.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Let’s get you started and on the way to certification with the PrepCast! The course meets the PMI requirements for formal project management education (35 contact hours) and provides you with a certificate for evidence in case your PMP application is audited. Studying for another PMI certification? Get this course instead.

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Velociteach

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Constance Dierickx lays out a new paradigm for leadership that offers a way to synthesize thinking, emotion, and behavior. Meta-leadership goes beyond conventional leadership attributes, emphasizing not only the possession of knowledge and skills but also a keen sense of observation and discernment. Who am I trying to please?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Or book a power hour with me and get started on your mentoring journey straight away! I’m thinking of taking a project management certification. Which certifications do you have and what was your experience of getting them? Do you have any book recommendations on X topic? Book a power hour with me. Need a mentor?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! There are 5 domains in the business resilience framework laid out in the book. Who is this book for?

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

In the foundation course and book, the entirety of the framework is explained to give content to the learner of what ITIL is, why it is important and how to apply its principles. The ITIL certification scheme provides a defined learning path benefiting the individual at each designation. Can it support career progression?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Do you need to earn PDUs to maintain your PMI certification? If you hold a PMP ® , PgMP ® , PfMP ® or PMI-PBA ® certification, you need to earn 60 PDUs every three years. If you hold a PMI-ACP ® , PMI-RMP ® , PMI-SP ® certification, you need to earn 30 PDUs in a three-year cycle. You’re in the right place! PDU categories.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Is your re-certification cycle coming to an end for your PMI certificate? The PMI Continuing Certification Requirements guidelines are laid out in the CCR Handbook, which you can download from the PMI website. There are different requirements for each of the PMI certifications. You’re in the right place! Watch webinars.

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2020 PMI Certification Software Review 451

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When I run project management rooms on Clubhouse or open my DMs for questions on Facebook or LinkedIn, one of the most common questions is: What certificate should I get? People who want to earn their certification without becoming a member. Yes, you can earn your PMP certification without being a member.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

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. For that, you need to turn to the good old fashioned book.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 20, 2023

The organization might want to resolve a specific question, there could be a leadership void, operations or performance are lacking and so on. It’s the old debate between book smarts and street smarts. Another thing to consider is if the project management consultants have certification.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Being asked to mentor someone means that your experience has been recognized as a project management professional (not necessarily a certificate holder, but someone who knows how to do the job well). One of the top recommended books on my course is The Mentoring Manual by Julie Starr, and it’s got hardly any specific theory in at all.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 19, 2022

A release train engineer certification is a great way to help your organization with the transformation. A release train engineer is efficient, has leadership quality, and has an ability to do teamwork. Closed book, time-bound, web-based. What Are the Benefits of a SAFe® RTE (Release Train Engineer) Certification.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In 2020, AXELOS, the awarding body for the PRINCE2 family of certifications, launched a version specifically aimed at the US market, with relevant vocabulary and case studies. You won’t find anything in PRINCE2 about people management or the soft skills of project management, although these are covered in other related books.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Leadership : ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We’ve rounded up all the deals that we think you might find useful, including the best discounts of the year on Project Management Professional ( PMP ) ® certification training or professional development options including some of the partners I work with regularly and am proud to be an affiliate for. Project Management Training.

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iZenBridge

DECEMBER 5, 2019

I often get several queries related to PDUs for PMP® certification, how do we earn sixty PMP® PDUs? If you are looking to know the ways of earning PDUs, you may refer to this blog – “ Ways to earn PDUs for PMIs certification ”. You need to map them in the “ Leadership ” category. I earned all my sixty PDUs by reading books.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s all the stuff you know to do anyway, because it’s part of what it means to operate in a leadership role in a modern organization, whether you are working on iterative, predictive or hybrid projects. These guidebooks give you a week-by-week study plan to follow to help you in your quest toward your PMP certification.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

PRINCE2 was the first project management certification that I got. Leadership skills and other power skills (AKA soft skills) are things you might already have or can pick up on the way. Perhaps this is going to be your first project management certification. How hard is the certification exam? On to the courses….

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Do you need PDUs for the Certified Associate in Project Management ( CAPM ) ® certificate? In this article I’ll explain what this means for CAPM certification holders and how you can maintain your credential without having to take the exam again. As of 1 October 2020, you do! What’s new about PDUs for CAPM ? How are PDUs calculated?

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Umlas August 2, 2023 I was chatting with Kelly Westin SHRM-CP after she attended the “Grateful Leadership for HR Professionals” session led by my “protégé” Chaplain (Colonel) Primitivo Davis at the SHRM 2023 Conference, when a “back attack” made me have to bow out. By Judith W.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Questions about agile certifications (especially those from Scrum.org) are an integral part of my routine. People always come to me saying that they are going to act as a Scrum Master / Product Owner / Developer on an agile project and they want to know what to study and what`s the best first certification.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 26, 2018

The Project Management Institute (PMI) ® Talent Triangle ® has addressed the need for project leadership competencies. 3) Leadership. Below is a contrast between project management vs. project leadership competencies. Leadership Technical Competency. Leadership. More on this topic of project leadership….

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

Entry level project management job titles If you don’t yet have the project management certification and experience to go into a project manager job, you’ll be looking for job titles for entry level positions. Here are some example entry level project management positions to watch out for.

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