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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. Outside of the world of PMI, I’m not sure that the term is widely used at all, but let’s put that aside for a moment and consider what they are and how to use them. I’m kidding, EEFs aren’t that different.

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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. PMI reports an expected global need for 25 million new project professionals by 2030. Is this true? That’s about 2.3

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a not-for-profit membership association, project management certification and standards organization. It does require strict scrum roles however.

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What can I do with a degree in project management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PMI reports an expected global need for 25 million new project professionals by 2030. That’s due to: an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills (i.e. most knowledge work jobs as well as industries where PM has traditionally been important) higher demand due to economic growth retirement rates.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Construction of a Huawei research and development center Aircraft R&D facilities The continued development and expansion of Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory LEGOLAND® Park & Resort in Jinshan District at the cost of US$550m, due to open in 2024. There’s going to be a mix of retail, office and residential units along with a hotel.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. There are other differences: the PMBOK® Guide usefully covers procurement, whereas PRINCE2 assumes you are operating in an environment constrained by a contract, because of its roots in government IT projects. PMI regulates the PMP certification.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

When the Department of Defense (DoD) decided to expand the need for more technical projects following World War II, pressure was placed upon the aerospace and defense community to develop expertise in project management. First, the PM was expected to possess a command of technology rather than merely an understanding of technology.

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