Janet MillerIT Senior Project Manager| Kelly ServicesIrving, Tx, United States
I earned my PMP 5 years ago. I've been working as a contractor, and my current project is ending. I've never worked on an Agile project before, and so many of the job postings today require Agile experience. What suggestions do you have for me to get my foot in the door to gain Agile experience as a project manager? Saving Changes...
You can apply certain practices associated with agile delivery and an agile mindset to almost any type of project. However, to use an adaptive lifecycle, it needs to fit the context of the project and be accepted by the stakeholders for that project.
I'd suggest looking for volunteer PM roles with your local PMI chapter or a not-for-profit association as a means of gaining that experience until you land your next gig.
Once you land your next gig, even if it is a waterfall lifecycle project, find ways to be agile within that delivery approach.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
If you talk about Agile while you like to keep it inside the PMI´s framework then my recommendation is going to all related to Discipline Agile inside the PMI, no matter I think Agile is beyond that. In general, you have to understand that Agile is not software or a specific method/framework. Agile can be applied with waterfall life cycles. If you like to find a job as soon as possible then go to all related to Scrum because most of the people (companies) think that Scrum is synonym of Agile then they live in "the matrix". Inside that world the people more consistence is Scrum Alliance. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Janet
First, I suggest you read about Agile, Agile Manifesto, Principles and Values. A good starter book is Mike Griffith PMI_ACP exam prep book and even though you re not going to do the exam, yet, this book is an amazing book and will give you general knowledge about all aspects of Agile.
Second, a volunteer position like Kiron mentioned will help. However, when you dive more into agile, you might discover that you’ve already been doing so many tasks in an agile fashion. Agility starts with a mindset of being agile before doing agile.
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Arpit BhardwajAssistant Manager| Expo 2020Dubai, Du, United Arab Emirates
Janet,
I completely understand your question. As I have been personally experienced this. The best way through which I understood and applied Agile methodologies was through first shadowing on the projects within the firm. As this will enable you to be part of the agile project but not being responsible for it in the first place. Then you can gradully grow into the role and learn about different techniques of SCRUM, KANBAN.
Regards,
Arpit Saving Changes...
Yuen Ying LoProject Manager| Able Communication GroupHong Kong, Hong Kong
It's really a big difference between PMP & agile. More and more organizations adopt agile framework as it's more suitable for IT software development. You can start with studying the agile course and get scrum master certificates. The daily standup session and Kanban made a huge difference on the project progress Saving Changes...
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