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IBM Project Manager Certificate: My Student Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I spent a lot of hours reviewing the materials and studying the individual courses, and I hope that time helps you make a choice about whether the course is a good fit for your career needs. You don’t need any prior knowledge or pre-requisite study, or any particular education requirements in order to take the certificate.

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Webinar Recap: Want To Be A PMI-ACP? The Primary Steps to Take

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Satya Narayan Dash’s session, Want To Be A PMI-ACP? If you want to be a PMI-ACP, here are the primary steps to take. Today’s session is eligible for one PMI-PDU and the technical category. The MPUG activity code for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now.

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How to Start a Career in Project Management: Answers to FAQ

Epicflow Blog

And the advantage is not the diploma itself but the time and effort people spend on studying. PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) (costs from $405 for members and $555 for non-members); . PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) (costs from $435 for members and $495 for non-members); .

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How to manage projects properly

Binfire

Like most other disciplines, you become proficient as a project manager by practice and not just studying. It is nice to get a certificate from PMI or a degree from an Ivy school , but it is not enough. . If you are working on a software project, you better have a firm grip on software engineering discipline.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Project Management Institute (PMI) [8] presents similar results about uncertainty, except that their results introduce an asymmetric cone where initial estimates vary between +75% and –25%, budgetary estimate between +25% and -10%, and the final estimate between +10% and -5%. 37–48, 2007. Quantifying IT Forecast Quality,” J. Eveleens and C.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.