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What can I do with a degree in project management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Many of these roles are predicted to be in software development and sub-sectors like app development, IT security and healthcare tech. That’s due to: an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills (i.e. That’s about 2.3 million new jobs a year.

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Six Sigma: A Simple Guide for Project Managers

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Since then, Lean Six Sigma has been used in a variety of economic sectors, such as healthcare, finance and supply chain. As Agile methods continue to grow from the software development egg in which they were hatched, the style has found itself saddling up with Six Sigma. Six Sigma and Agile.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. We did have a team of developers who built some in-house apps, and web front ends to databases, but we were not, at heart, a company that built software.

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

” Firstly, I should say that I don’t think you require a degree in a particular subject in order to become a project manager – both my degrees are in English Literature and I work as an IT project manager in the healthcare sector. That’s due to: an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills (i.e.

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Common Myths About Scrum

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Here are a few examples: Scrum is only for software development: While Scrum was initially developed for software development, it is now used in various industries, including finance, healthcare, marketing, and education. There are many common myths about Scrum.

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Using Scrum for Improving Operations

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Healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals treat patients. Agile approaches make sense in many contexts and most companies would indeed benefit from applying them beyond software development/technology/IT. Accounting professionals focused on Revenue Accounting. Marketers of many kinds.

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What Is a Service-Level Agreement? (Example & Templates Included)

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But you’ll also find SLAs in customer service, healthcare, logistics and education. The IT industry uses service-level agreements most for everything from cloud computing to network management and database management services.