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IBM Project Manager Certificate: My Student Review

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This is where you read a case study, complete a document template, upload it, and one of the other students assesses it. I don’t think they truly meant to be that specific, especially as there is nowhere in the case study where you get given the exact name in the marking scheme, so how would you even know it?

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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

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Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. Daniel Russo to write an academic paper that has been submitted to the academic journal “T ransactions of Software Engineering ”. The case studies also provided insights into potential patterns.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. Judy & Krumin-Beens (2008) offer an interesting perspective on this in a case study. Kristinsdottir, S., Springer, Cham.

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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

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It is not only because the book is good, but I felt connected with one of the case studies. Adopting Extreme Programming Practices, separating release from deployment, and embracing modern software engineering practices will speed up team performance. What will be an effective measure to have such a comparison?

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Is the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate worth it?

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You work through examples, demos and case studies in the course, including in the Capstone, so you get to put your skills into practice (helpful for when they ask you at interview if you have ever done a particular thing). You don’t need any prior experience.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

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It doesn’t matter whether you look at the available research on the progress of DX (⁶), case studies, the job market, the number of certification holders, public training or conferences; the evidence tells the same story. In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. In 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) (pp. A survey study of critical success factors in agile software projects. Journal of systems and software , 81 (6), 961–971.

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