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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > The Project Management Thread: it cost more than I thought it would.
 
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Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

 I have 4 years experience doing extremely variable part-time unpaid project management (events). Is there any point in getting a CAPM? How do I know if I qualify for the PMP?

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Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

 I know the requirements they call for to take the PMP exam (36 months), I'm just not sure if what I did fully counts towards it. My schedule is *extremely* erratic and I have no way to count the number of hours I've put in over the years.

I have no problem trudging along in some paid job until I'm confident I qualify for the PMP exam if that's what it takes, but I'm dubious that taking the CAPM is worth anything.

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Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

 My position is a "[subset of department] specialist" and it's absolutely a PM role. Look for positions that need the skills you already have but also require coordinating large groups of people or activities from beginning to end.

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Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

 Are you looking for yourself or for company-wide use?

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Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

I know, but I'm not entirely convinced engineers can't either learn to do project management or learn to hire people who can. The reason I haven't quit my position as the load bearing SME is because the entire industry is pretty dire in this respect.

I don't think my demands are even that unreasonable: I just want my projects to have work breakdown structures, schedules and a task list so that we can hand out tasks and follow progress without multiple weekly 2-hour all hands meetings.

I took Google's project management course, which is geared towards software engineers for the obvious reason. It's pretty fast to breeze through if you have any experience in watching projects come together. Without an understanding of why a process should be followed, any attempt at enforcing new software is doomed to fail.

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Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

Sounds good, I'll have to look into it. The jump from software to civil engineering might be a bit challenging though.

My background is in events, so if it was accessible to me it should work just fine for civil engineers. There were some fluff pieces ("This is how project management improved my career!") but most of it was very concrete and broken into logical steps.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > The Project Management Thread: it cost more than I thought it would.