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Will a Project Management Certification Help Your Career?

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The Certification Option. There are also courses run by training companies that will give you a certificate, or you could go the whole way and sign up for a Masters in Project Management at one of the top business schools. But what if you’re switching from a purely technical role to one that involves managing projects?

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How I passed the Google Project Management Certificate in a Week

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you looking for tips on how to pass the Google Project Management Certificate ? In this article, I’ll share my top tips for working out the answers to the graded quizzes, how to plan your time and how to get the certificate for the lowest possible cost (not free, but very cheap). However, you can audit these courses for free.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

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Having PMP certification is an industry standard to show that you’ve learned the basics and know the various project management methodologies. Project budgets are estimated by project managers and then approved by the project client or stakeholders. This is done through a resource management plan.

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How to Start a Project Management Career

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Even without a degree there are certification programs, such as the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP) and many entry-level positions where interested candidates can learn as they earn. PMI offers PMP certification, but also PRINCE2 Practitioner, though this methodology is mostly found in the UK.

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Mastering Project Estimation: Simplified Techniques for Reliable Scheduling

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The solution, of course, is estimating. There is a whole science to estimation, and it would be possible to go very deeply into this. But before we start, let’s tackle the Estimation Elephant in the Room…. The estimation techniques they use are a deliberate trade-off between speed and accuracy.

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What Should You Include in Your Preconstruction Meeting Agenda?

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To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting. In a preconstruction meeting, project exceptions are defined, roles are clarified and risk mitigation strategies are discussed. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting?