Good morning! I have been a PMP for almost twenty years working with Waterfall and am taking the CAPM exam (hopefully). What strategy may you suggest for applying to Agile PM positions since the best experience I have is 'Agilebut' experience?
Justus NScrum Master| BCBSTXArlington, Tx, United States
Also confused, but, based on "What strategy may you suggest for applying to Agile PM positions since the best experience I have is 'Agilebut' experience?"...........the PMI-ACP comes to mind not CAPM. Just a guess though Saving Changes...
Most of the people I've spoken with about using agile work at companies that use some form of Agilebut. Tailor your resume so that your experience reflects what their job description says about how they go about it. Talk to PMs at companies you are applying to - maybe through the local PMI chapter - to get more insight into their processes. Use that input to further refine your resume. Saving Changes...
My next steps are Certified Scrum Master and AWS certifications. Though I am not a programmer, I did lose out on a job because I did not have the AWS certification.
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1 reply by Rami Kaibni
Mar 28, 2020 2:28 PM
Rami Kaibni
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This is also a good idea. I have the scrum certifications as well although I am not a software engineer and I want to do one in Cyber Security as well.
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Mar 28, 2020 12:31 PM
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My next steps are Certified Scrum Master and AWS certifications. Though I am not a programmer, I did lose out on a job because I did not have the AWS certification.
This is also a good idea. I have the scrum certifications as well although I am not a software engineer and I want to do one in Cyber Security as well. Saving Changes...
Shannon MollenhauerSenior Project Manager Instructor| PM-ProLearnIl, United States
CSM is an easy certification to obtain because it requires no previous experience and the test is ridiculously easy compared to PMI cert exams. The CSM is table stakes and if anyone who is serious about hiring someone who can jump into an agile environment and serve as scrum master, product owner, or "project manager" should know that cert is pretty watered down. It means you have experienced some scrum training and can speak the language, much like CAPM. PMI-ACP is a little more broad in content since it addresses more than scrum, but also requires some documented agile experience. If you're in an IT environment, I would think about whether you want to be in an agile team member role with technical responsibilities or more of a scrum coach, product owner, "project manager/program manager" role, if the organization is enlightened enough to know the distinctions and have a PMO structure. Saving Changes...
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