Should You Get a PM Certification? How to Build a Business Case for Professional Certification
In many articles, podcasts, interviews, and videos, I’ve given the same answer to the question ‘Should I get this or that Project Management certification?’ My answer is always ‘it depends’. You need to treat it like any other project and create a business case.
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🎒 A while back, I asked Project Managers in a couple of forums what material things you need to have, to do your job as a Project Manager. They responded magnificently. I compiled their answers into a Kit list.
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This is relevant for PM qualifications and certifications like:
CAPM, PMP
PMI-ACP, PMI-RMP
PRINCE2
APM
Scrum - CSM, PSM etc
any Project Management (or even any professional) certification
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⏱ Chapter Markers...
00:00 - How to Build a Business Case for Professional Certifications
00:35 - How to create a Business Case
01:00 - Three important things… #1
02:04 - Three important things… #2
02:36 - Three important things… #3
03:17 - PMI Analysis (not 'The' PMI)
03:55 - Options
04:14 - Creating your PMI analysis
04:56 - The ‘Plus’ column
05:29 - The ‘Minus’ column
05:57 - The ‘Interesting’ column
06:17 - Investment Appraisal
06:28 - One-off costs
07:14 - Ongoing costs
07:31 - One-off financial benefits
08:07 - Ongoing financial benefits
08:26 - Over what term to analyze costs and benefits
09:47 - Combine costs and benefits
10:57 - Now you should know…
11:29 - Four important things…
11:39 - #1
11:58 - #2
12:42 - #3
13:02 - #4
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