Good day,
I am sure that the above question resonates in each of you, who has been PMP certified for sometimes. You have done great job with project deliveries, successfully delivered multiple projects at different scale, holding PMP certification for years, and... what's next?
In term of study, I found a number of certifications in the market that can well complement your PMP degree. As for me, PMP was my first professional certification I obtained in 2010. Soon after that I had CISA certification by ISACA, followed by ITIL v.3, Agile Scrum Master and Six Sigma Green Belt.
With today's trend in project delivery, whereby a significant number of projects are delivered in agile manner, I would personally recommend that Agile scrum master can fit nicely to your project management portfolio. While PMP is heavily focusing on waterfall, a scrum master certification can give you a different paradigm towards project delivery with agile methodology.
The two certifications together will increase your credibility in project delivery. There are a number of training providers providing Agile training and certification including PMI itself. Regardless which provider you choose, the one that matters the most is the skill for you to see and experience the difference between Agile and waterfall. See my earlier post on the two methodologies to start learning on the difference between the two.
Another path in project management you might be interested to pursue is to becoming a program manager or portfolio manager. In brief, as a certified project manager you are acknowledged on your skill to lead one project into completion. It takes a totally different skill if you want to lead the delivery of multiple projects at one time. Going this path will take you into a managerial position where you are expected to oversee the delivery of multiple projects each has its own project manager.
Again, for this certification, PMI offers a good set of skill development courses, i.e. PgMP and PfMP. This skill is still considerably rare in Indonesia, which creates a good distinctive opportunity for you.
Well, hope that gives you a bit of light that there are still a wide opportunity for skill progression and self development in project manager once you are PMP certified.
-Edwin-
I am sure that the above question resonates in each of you, who has been PMP certified for sometimes. You have done great job with project deliveries, successfully delivered multiple projects at different scale, holding PMP certification for years, and... what's next?
In term of study, I found a number of certifications in the market that can well complement your PMP degree. As for me, PMP was my first professional certification I obtained in 2010. Soon after that I had CISA certification by ISACA, followed by ITIL v.3, Agile Scrum Master and Six Sigma Green Belt.
With today's trend in project delivery, whereby a significant number of projects are delivered in agile manner, I would personally recommend that Agile scrum master can fit nicely to your project management portfolio. While PMP is heavily focusing on waterfall, a scrum master certification can give you a different paradigm towards project delivery with agile methodology.
The two certifications together will increase your credibility in project delivery. There are a number of training providers providing Agile training and certification including PMI itself. Regardless which provider you choose, the one that matters the most is the skill for you to see and experience the difference between Agile and waterfall. See my earlier post on the two methodologies to start learning on the difference between the two.
Another path in project management you might be interested to pursue is to becoming a program manager or portfolio manager. In brief, as a certified project manager you are acknowledged on your skill to lead one project into completion. It takes a totally different skill if you want to lead the delivery of multiple projects at one time. Going this path will take you into a managerial position where you are expected to oversee the delivery of multiple projects each has its own project manager.
Again, for this certification, PMI offers a good set of skill development courses, i.e. PgMP and PfMP. This skill is still considerably rare in Indonesia, which creates a good distinctive opportunity for you.
Well, hope that gives you a bit of light that there are still a wide opportunity for skill progression and self development in project manager once you are PMP certified.
-Edwin-
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