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Re: What's the benefit in getting a PMP certification in project management?
Subject:Re: What's the benefit in getting a PMP certification in project management? From:Milan DavidoviÄ <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"O Neill, Jennifer BIS" <Jennifer -dot- ONeill -at- fs -dot- utc -dot- com> Date:Fri, 29 May 2015 10:20:46 -0400
It seems like there are two questions -- what's the benefit to the
organization of having people (1) trained in project management, and
(2) certified as such? The former is intuitively clear to me, though
at a previous employer the latter was a sort of "street cred",
industry-wise.
--Milan DavidoviÄ
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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:29 AM, O Neill, Jennifer BIS
<Jennifer -dot- ONeill -at- fs -dot- utc -dot- com> wrote:
> A large part of the work I do is project management, particularly localization projects. I'm thinking that I'd like to get more formal training in project management to help my work. So I'm wondering how useful is getting the PMP certificate by PMI for the tech comm domain.
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