Hi, I am looking to advance in the PM field, after gaining close to 3 years in software development and testing, accompanied with an IT college degree. I am very new to the PM field, and the CAPM sounds like a good introduction for someone with no real experience in PM activities.
However, it seems that the PM field isn't friendly to people with no real world experience (as paper qualifications is only experience on paper). Thus, is the CAPM beneficial to a young IT developer, or should she continue to specialise in the software development field first (like MCSE, etc)?
See if you can get yourself first promoted into a project lead position where the job is 10% project management and 90% technical. You still have a lot to learn in terms of dealing with upper management and so on. With just 3 years experience, you're not even considered senior level as a developer, you need to do a very critical self assessment, see where the gaps are, then generate a plan to get you where you want to be. Remember, you have no PM track record! Saving Changes...
