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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I do think that having a degree (of any kind, in any subject) is beneficial for securing a job, especially as project managers are expected to influence and lead, and many employers want to see evidence of the ability to operate at that level and use a degree as a benchmark for it. In my experience, job titles vary hugely between employers.

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Digital Project Management Skills You Need Today

Project Pulse Journal

Applications of Digital Project Management Skills IT and Software Development - Managing software projects, including updates and releases, requires acute data analysis and effective coordination of development teams.

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Win at Digital Transformation By Connecting Portfolio Management and Value Stream Management 

Planview

By combining these approaches, organizations can improve the performance of every stage of the software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery to outcomes. The PMO determines how strategy gets put into action and turned into execution and delivery.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Project Management Office (PMO) An organization’s centralized office or department that oversees and supports all organizational project management efforts. Product Backlog A prioritized list of features, enhancements, and fixes for a product that needs to be accomplished and is often used in Agile product development.

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What does a project manager do?

Planio

During this phase, there’s a lot of box-ticking and governance to ensure everyone understands their ongoing requirements. Then, he works with technical software development experts to estimate the duration of each task and plots it onto a Gantt chart. Focus Projects may impact/influence multiple parts of the business.

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Project Charters: Guide to Writing (With Template)

Wrike

Establish project governance: Project charter templates help to identify key stakeholders and team members involved in the project, e.g., project sponsors, project manager, and team lead, indicating who is responsible for specific tasks and who has the authority to make decisions.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.