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

Scrum.org

Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. Daniel Russo to write an academic paper that has been submitted to the academic journal “T ransactions of Software Engineering ”. The case studies also provided insights into potential patterns.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

We will share results from scientific studies that we located through Google Scholar. In a scientific study , we identified five core processes — or factors— that happen in and around Agile teams at varying levels of quality: Teams work to be as responsive as possible through automation, refinement, and a high(er) release frequency.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

One consistent pattern in studies about Product Owners is that there is a gap between the theory of the Scrum framework and how it is practiced. . Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”.

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

Scrum.org

It is not only because the book is good, but I felt connected with one of the case studies. Adopting Extreme Programming Practices, separating release from deployment, and embracing modern software engineering practices will speed up team performance. What will be an effective measure to have such a comparison?