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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. That’s due to: an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills (i.e. Is this true?

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Key Technology Trends in the Construction Industry in 2024

Epicflow Blog

Technology Trends in Construction: 2024 Outlook Like any other industry, the construction domain has been increasingly digitalized in recent years – companies are leveraging software, sensors, drones, and other technologies that revolutionize the construction processes and are sure to transform the future of construction.

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5 Notorious Failed Projects & What We Can Learn from Them

ProjectManager.com

Developed by Sony, Betamax was introduced in the mid-1970s but was unable to get traction in the market, where JVC’s VHS technology was king. Long before it discontinued the technology, Betamax was already irrelevant. This was a creative project, which might not have met its paper objective, but created a slew of useful technologies.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Since almost all of the projects were technical in nature, two criteria were established for someone to be appointed as a project manager (PM). This appeased DoD.

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Can you be agile if you release only once a year?

Scrum.org

By doing so, these teams gain the ability to test their assumptions early and often about the solutions they are building from both a technical and business perspective. The technical perspective includes validating what happens when the product is fully integrated and deployed in production.

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10 Best Procore Alternatives of 2024 (Free + Paid)

ProjectManager.com

Add to this, risk management features that help identify, manage and track issues and ProjectManager deserves our top ranking for Procore alternatives. 5 Capterra review: 4.1/5 Capterra review: 4.7 Capterra review: 4.3 Capterra review: 4.6 Capterra review: 4.4 Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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5 Considerations for Managing a Project Portfolio

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A typical project portfolio in pharmaceuticals is made up typically of internal projects, presided by R&D, closely followed by IT and business development, while an engineering firm may have programs of external projects classified by the nature of the result delivered. Consideration #2: Managing complex risk is all about balance.