How to Manage a Camel – Project Management Blog: Just before Christmas I was invited along to a PMI event in Manchester. It was called “Shaping Project Management Education” and it was hosted by the PMI UK Chapter.
It was an event that brought together those currently working in the academic world of project management – specifically universities that offer project management degrees. People working for organisations that hire graduates in project management were also in attendance.
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Having a close personal friend that just recently acquired a job in project management in the tech world, I can definitely understand where this article is coming from. He has a degree in biology, and works amongst many others who don't even have a degree in the first place. Yet, all of the employees hired at this particular tech company make a minimum of 50k per year, regardless of not having a degree. The company uses a very in-depth interview system, and also includes about 4 months of initial training before assigning a PM to a client in the first place. While this would definitely be an effective way of dealing with the "there are no degrees in project management issue", it certainly brings a big burden upon the company. In my opinion, however, I think that might be the most effective way to handle it. I think the skills required to be a project manager are almost too vague and derive from a sense of self and personal experiences that just cant be acquired in a formal degree program.
I found this article to be a very interesting read, as it gave some insight to my career counterpart in the outside (non-theartical) world. I forget that nearly every industry in the world needs project managers, and that project management skills are transferable to other aspects of life. I didn’t know universities even offered degrees in project management, although it shouldn’t be surprising since even here at CMU you can major in bagpiping. Although I’m not sure getting a degree in general project management is particularly useful. I think a lot of the ability to project manage comes from an intricate knowledge of the system you’re managing. So while classes in more general project management skills are useful, they don’t mean anything without industry related education as well. I hope universities are realizing this and are able to provide their project managers with the necessary background to work in their industry of choice.
Also as a new topic, can you please discuss about the difficulties in maintaining the schedule approved at the beginning of a project. online invoicing software
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