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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia

The current trend , at-least for IT Project Management seems to be demanding more and more Agilists, Product Managers and Scrum Masters, rather than Prince2 or PMP Certified Project Managers. In fact , the jobs are demanding a combination of the two .

Just wondering which of the certifications have members of this site found useful in their work.

I know that we already use Agile practices like Kanban Boards, Daily Standups , Sprints/Iterations and Retrospectives , so I am actually asking if being certified has helped you more than merely using the practices.

I am contemplating doing one of the four that i have listed above because i do not have enough experience to qualify for PMI -ACP just yet.

So it will be good to have this jargon on my CV just for a rainy day.

Posted: Dec 12, 2017 9:30 PM

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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia

I got headhunted for a Payroll Processing Manager job the other day . The description read that they needed someone with experience in Payroll systems to lead the day to day operations and recommend upgrades and that I was the perfect fit in their mind

My resume cries out loud that my career focus and experience is IT Project Management . If something like that is not crystal clear , I feel sorry for employers who have hired this agency .

Posted: Dec 14, 2017 7:59 PM (Updated by author: Dec 14, 2017 7:59 PM)

Andrew Burns Agile Coach| Siemens PLM Software Edgewood, Ky, United States

Just went to Monster.com and searched on
PMI-ACP 357 Jobs
CSM 1000+ Jobs
PSM Agile 195 Jobs
SPC Agile 343 jobs

I have the PMI-ACP and SPC, SAFe and value these.

Posted: Dec 15, 2017 8:36 AM

Debashish Das Senior Manager | Video Game Producer | Project Manager| Independent consultant Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Dec 13, 2017 6:10 AM

Replying to Kiron Bondale

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Deepesh -

It's rare that a hiring manager or recruiter will go just by an agile credential. Companies which are serious about agile transformation will look for practitioners with the scars on their backs more than the letters after their names...

Kiron

Kiron, I just experienced a situation which is exactly opposite to this. The scenario you described is Ideal, but in reality companies do look for the letters after the names primarily than the scars on the back. Majority of the times especially the bigger companies don’t even bothered to look for scars.

I don’t want to name any company, but resently a hiring manager of one of top-50 companies posted a job listing which reads like,
* Experience needed 0-2years.
* PMP “degree” is required

These two lines certainly proves they don’t know anything about pmp except the three letters.

Posted: Dec 16, 2017 4:50 AM

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