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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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Is the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate worth it?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You don’t need any prior knowledge or pre-requisite study, or any particular education requirements in order to take the certificate. It’s fully online so you can study around your day job or university requirements. The recommendation is 10 hours of study per week for 3 months. But it is up to you. What certificate do you get?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

It doesn’t matter whether you look at the available research on the progress of DX (⁶), case studies, the job market, the number of certification holders, public training or conferences; the evidence tells the same story. In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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7 Uncomfortable Truths for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

Famously, software engineer and author Tim Lister said that: “Risk management is how adults manage projects.” Plan our work to accommodate risks and contingencies. But in the even less-certain new world of large-scale software development, that was looking increasingly difficult. Employ the assets you deliver.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

Risks are identified and mitigated early during the project lifecycle, which allows teams to comply with stringent compliance regulations and organizational policies across the project lifecycle. The sequential process provides a linear and well-defined approach to realizing known task objectives.

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