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Top 15 project management certifications

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Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Top project management certifications.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

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As project-based business practices give way to product-focused cross-functional teams, the product manager role is taking on prominence, increasingly attracting interest from job candidates who might otherwise go into IT. Do product managers make good money? As you grow in your career, so will your salary.

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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

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Candidates must have attended at least one SAFe certification training session, have a background in product or solution management, and have experience as a product manager, product marketer, product owner, business owner, or in bringing products to market.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

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The certification is also well-suited for software engineers, business analysts, and project managers. The PMI-ACP requires a secondary degree, 21 contract hours of training in agile practices, 12 months of general project experience within the past five years, and eight months of agile project experience within the past three years.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. 1. IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4%

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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

Product and delivery leaders: Agents of change While there are many ways to charter a program and define leadership responsibilities, I recommend leading transformation initiatives with these two key roles. Agile PMOs close the loop on digital transformation as a core competency through several activities.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

Product Owners were recruited from the ranks of the existing Business Analysts and Project Managers. Less senior BAs became Product Managers, while those Project Managers who did not become part of the Product organization were either staffed outside of IT or coached out of the accompany.