Linda CarvelliPM Specialist| Self-employedWarren, Ri, United States
I've worked in IT for over 30 years, been a PM for almost 20 of those years, and held a PMP for 7. I'm well versed and experienced in Lean Six Sigma and PMBOK and have a general understanding of Agile. I've taken some "scratch the surface" webinars and not sure best course of action to start more formal education --- enough to land a position as Agile PM and start accumulating some Agile hours leading up to certification. I'd love to hear opinions/experiences from fellow PMs about how to enhance my career with Agile knowledge.
As a freelance contractor, I worked in Agile Enviroments projects, in other organizations we worked with Waterfall methodologies, team members that shared their Scrum knowledge.
At this point of my professional career, I have a basic understanding of all this, but at this moment I'm not pursuing a certification, why?
Easy, it seems that during last few years, a huge percentage of companies were looking for a Scrum Master as a "perfect" team leader. Now is like "Agile" is their top priority...what will be the trend during the nexts year?
From my point of view, a great project manager can easy adapt to any organization environment, methodology.
Maybe is for my "radical" opinion that I'm struggling to find a job, but anyway, experience vs certifications are always a dilema for the hiring managers. Saving Changes...
