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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You’ll find job titles such as Engineering Project Manager, Marketing Project Manager, Publishing Project Manager, Healthcare Project Manager (like me) and more. He learned a lot about project management in the process and eventually went on to become a PMO Manager. This role tends to require a legal background and training.

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PMO co-pilot

Musings on Project Management

It seems that every PM framework and tool set now has a co-pilot app fired up by a generative AI engine of some kind. And, it's not just our domain: MS Windows, various cloud services, and others all now have the requisite co-pilot.In

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Ultimate Guide To Setting Up a PMO In Your Business

WorkOtter

Setbacks in productivity can damage the success and growth of your business, which is why setting up a Project Management Office (PMO) to help handle and oversee various projects at once is a great way to avoid these issues. What Exactly is a PMO? Setting up a PMO can help with many different components of a business.

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Project Management Apprenticeships: A UK Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a good one if you want to work in energy, utilities, construction and engineering as those industries tend to have more need for people with project controls job titles than, say, marketing. At the end, you get a Level 3 Diploma in Project Control Practice and you can apply for membership of the Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE).

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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. I thought I’d repeat here what I said to her, in case anyone else finds it useful. Is this true?

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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You’ll find job titles such as Engineering Project Manager, Marketing Project Manager, Publishing Project Manager and more. Project Controller: If you want an entry level job in heavy industry like engineering, construction, then look for this job title. Instead, people with PMO job titles are in a crucial support function.

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The Lazy Project Manager

These individuals are promoting courses, presentations, qualifications in some cases, or are making some bold declaration about the past, present and future of PMOs but (and here is the really scary part) if you take a closer look at their career (as declared on their LinkedIn profile) they don’t seem to have ever actually run a PMO.

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