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Online Training: RapidStart PMO Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

RapidStart PMO: Online Project Management Training Review. The paid course covers everything you’d need to get a PMO up and running in a few months. There are two workstreams within the RapidStart methodology: Workstream 1: Designing, launching and aligning the PMO. Then it talks about aligning the PMO.

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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. You might have landed here for the same reason: studying for the PMP exam and wondering how to make sense of this nothing-y term. Don’t get me started on Enterprise Environmental Factors either.) What is not an OPA?

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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Or what you can do with a project management degree for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? Personally, I think employers value work experience over a degree, so a degree in project management, while it will show that you have the technical and soft skills, will not ensure you a job. This article is for you!

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What can I do with a degree in project management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Or what you can do for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? 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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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. We did have a team of developers who built some in-house apps, and web front ends to databases, but we were not, at heart, a company that built software. Communication.

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15 Easy-to-Do Types of Professional Development

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Whether you want to achieve a certification , gain more confidence, build your technical skills or something else — it isn’t going to happen unless you make it happen. This is an easy one to decide to do, less so to follow it through as you actually have to study and then take an exam. But it’s worth it.

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How To Ask To Work Remotely

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management, PMO work, in fact most management and office-based jobs are perfectly suited to remote work. If this isn’t the right time to be asking, give it 6 months and review the situation again. There have been enough studies about it. Be honest with yourself: what did your last performance appraisal say?