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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. However… it’s really important to choose a good course. You’re in the right place.

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Is the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate worth it?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I have pre-registered to take the course, so I’ll update this article later with my experiences. 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.

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done. First, learn the basics.

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Learning Scrum using Minecraft Education

Scrum.org

It is a special version of Minecraft used by thousands of teachers and trainers to convey their course content. And then the experiment began with a nice and tidy little community of practice composed of “fresh out of school software engineers”. Exploring technical debt. Attention to technical excellence.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson

Scrum.org

On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”.

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Navigating your Career: The Importance of Career Mapping

Wrike

You will also benefit from continuous learning and development, as you proactively seek out opportunities to acquire new knowledge and grow professionally via courses, conferences, or more challenging projects at work. Consider enrolling in relevant courses, attending workshops or conferences, or seeking mentorship from industry experts.

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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?

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