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Portfolio Management: The Career Move You’ve Been Looking For?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Career paths tend to lean towards larger, more complex and more strategically important projects, or program management. Choosing the standards , approaches, methods and tools for projects or the division including taking the decision about what certifications your project managers and team members should have.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a not-for-profit membership association, project management certification and standards organization. Try ProjectManager for free!

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Top Global Lean/ Agile Thought Leaders and Influencers 2025

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They drive meaningful change through their books, talks, social platforms, and real-world implementations. Author of influential books like Succeeding with Agile and User Stories Applied, Mike is a sought-after speaker and trainer, with over 7,000 licenses sold for his video courses on Agile topics.

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Alternatively, choose books that fill in your gaps.

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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. Lean’s primary focus is delivering value quickly and eliminating waste. Toyota was a Lean pioneer. Lean is a set of principles. The “House of Lean” is often used as a metaphor. Value Value is the roof of our House of Lean.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here. It can serve as a baseline, but most project managers ought to layer some sort of agile certification on top of it.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) An entry-level certification offered by the Project Management Institute. It is commonly employed in Agile and Lean projects, often in response to end-user feedback in product development cycles. Jason Westland writes that network diagrams can be an alternative to Gantt charts.