article thumbnail

IBM Project Manager Certificate: My Student Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Summary review The IBM Project Manager Professional Certificate is a good CAPM® alternative or course to use towards your CAPM prep. If you are planning on a career in tech, do the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate instead. If you are planning on a career in tech, do the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate instead.

article thumbnail

Is the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate worth it?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’ve done a lot of project management training in my 20+ years as a project manager, and those courses helped me understand the skills, tools and techniques required to succeed leading projects. Luckily for me, many of the training programs I’ve done have been paid for by my company.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

They got training on Scrum, understood concepts, and formed teams, but struggle to commit. They got the idea of increasing the complexity of dependency management and longer lead time due to the handoffs having individual accountability. Bad technical practices. We wanted people to reach faster by driving faster.

article thumbnail

5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Transitioning from manufacturing to software engineering and development and various other industries, the Kanban Board has become a fundamental tool for visual management in project and workflow management, credited to the Agile movement. Columns might include "Ideation," "Design," "Approval," "Execution," and "Review."

article thumbnail

Learning Scrum using Minecraft Education

Scrum.org

While classes are re-scheduled in the Fall, some of us Scrum trainers are refocusing our energy to help the household while others are investigating how to conduct interactive online training. And then the experiment began with a nice and tidy little community of practice composed of “fresh out of school software engineers”.

SCRUM 188
article thumbnail

How to List Projects on Your Resume: A No Stress Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you are a software engineer, show me your software projects. Luckily, this is relatively easy as most job descriptions will include a list of technical and soft skills and competencies they expect candidates to have. What types of projects should you include on your application for a new role? You get the picture.

article thumbnail

What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

Scrum.org

This post is a non-technical version of an academic paper about Scrum teams that I wrote with Daniel Russo. Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. Please note that our paper is currently reviewed by academic peers. . What about Sprint Goals?

SCRUM 241