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3 Take Aways from PMI’s Pulse of the Profession Requirements Management
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3 Take Aways from PMI’s Pulse of the Profession: Requirements Management

A planned requirements approach is essential to a successful and smooth-running project.  Just like the project itself needs a project plan, the requirements process needs a requirements plan.  This necessity has been recognized most recently in PMI’s 2014 Pulse of the Profession: Requirements Management – A Core Competency for Project and Program Success. According to …

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My PMI-ACP Journey
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My PMI-ACP Journey

This week I added PMI-ACP® to my signature after passing my PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) certification exam. According to PMI, there were 5,999 active PMI-ACP credential holders worldwide as of June 30, 2014, and the certification is becoming increasingly popular as agile skills remain in high demand in the project management industry. Applying for …

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Agile Retrospectives in 5 Steps
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Agile Retrospectives in 5 Steps

“No matter how good a…team is doing, there is always opportunity to improve.” Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software There are a lot of Agile practices that I really like. Those things that can easily transfer to other projects, regardless of approach, are easily my favorites. In this article, I will discuss Agile retrospectives, both as …

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Top 6 Business Intelligence Skills
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Top 6 Business Intelligence Skills

Are Big Data, Business Intelligence, and Data Analytics buzzwords in your workplace? Or are you already working on a BI project and need to ramp up your skills? If so, you’re not alone. Business Intelligence skills have become increasingly valuable in recent years, as businesses in every industry have shifted from static reporting to interactive, predictive …

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Project Management Job Candidate Trends
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Project Management Job Candidate Trends

Considering getting your PMP?  Software Advice recently published a report on project management job candidate trends that will make you feel pretty good about that idea. Conducted by the Project Management Institute, the results of this research may not be terribly surprising, but it is interesting to note the relative experience, degrees, and certifications required across the fields …

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PMI-ACP Training for Project Professionals
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PMI-ACP Training for Project Professionals

Why PMI-ACP Training? Today’s businesses are as diverse as the people running them, but they all operate in today’s business environment which is always changing, fast-paced, and customer-driven. In that environment, traditional project management approaches are often too cumbersome to adapt fast-enough to evolving customer needs. For many organizations and project teams, agile offers a …

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Agile Project Management Standup and Be Trusted
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Agile Project Management: Standup and Be Trusted

Agile Daily Standup In my many years of project management training, I often joke that our discussion about project tracking and reporting isn’t going to take long because I don’t like it. Even so, I have always advocated for regular, daily tracking to meet the reporting needs of stakeholders. Students are often put off by …

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Business Analysis & Project Management in Collaboration in Slovenia
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Business Analysis & Project Management in Collaboration in Slovenia

IIBA Slovenia Business Analysis Conference – June 2014 Elizabeth and I were fortunate to be in Slovenia on vacation this summer when the IIBA Slovenia chapter was holding a business analysis conference on Synergies – The Future of Business. We previously met and became friends with the IIBA Slovenia chapter president, Aleš Štempihar, at the 2013 BBC conference in …

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Scrum Aids Project Planning
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Scrum Aids Project Planning

Key Components of Scrum What do product backlog, story points, and velocity have in common? They are all components of Scrum, an Agile framework, that allow us to estimate how much can be delivered in any given time frame. First, I will outline some basic definitions, and then I will share a real-life practical example …

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Project R.E.A.L. Project Management and Business Analysis Training
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Project R.E.A.L. Project Management and Business Analysis Training

Watermark Learning is proud to be a pioneer of live simulation in project management and business analysis training.  We have been offering our Project R.E.A.L Live Simulation and helping students apply their skills and build confidence since 2011. In fact, our Project R.E.A.L. course won the PMI Continuing Education Product of the Year award that year. Find out …

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