hi guys in today's video we are gonna look at how to become project manager.
You could be either in college could be tech lead or developer right and you want to
get into project management and the third is you are currently non-technical People Manager
just go ahead and comment in the section whether you are one two or three right
so now let's get into project management right, how to become a PM. Before we do
that we need to understand what is project management right.
Project management is actually managing project activities. A project has a start and an end
date right so between this time you have to manage your Scope, cost you have to manage
your schedule you had manage resources it could be
hardware software people right yeah so you have to manage that and if and it
depends on what kind of project you are managing. There are two type of
project management methodology today waterfall and agile. So if you are in
waterfall project and if you're not a PM and if you fall into one of these categories
then for waterfall I would strongly recommend taking a PMP certification and
for agile in CSM certification to become a PM your path right your path is
education
so education is actually taking your certification that way if you are in
college with no experience or if you are it tech lead and you don't know how to
effectively manage project by taking this certification it will help you to
understand what you need to be doing as a project manager and for non-technical
manager by studying for this examination you will understand more about what the
project management is and it will help you also to filter your resume out right
so when you apply for those jobs having this certification will help you
tremendously because it will help to filter out or to have your resumes stand
out from the rest because you have certification which proves that you have
the knowledge and the skill set required for the job right so one is education
second is experience so even if you are in college or if you
are not a project manager but doing some kind of development or if you are in a
technical lead you have some level of experience that when you attempt the
interviews you have to ensure that you correlate that experience in answering
your questions right so when you respond to the project management questions
which I have a separate video on my channel on their basic questions that
you need to get prepared when attending project manager job interviews right you
want to check that out a path to become a PM is first education you need to have
your certification that will help you in two ways one to understand the concept
and two you can stand out from the rest of the crowd because let me tell you not
not all the project managers out there who has experience have certifications
and these days most of the job posts that I have seen require one of these
certification because for PMP you need to be spending at least in a one to six
months depending on how much you are spending time studying for CSM you can
go to a two or three day class and then on the third day you can actually get
certified so if you are if you don't have enough time you want to quickly get
into project management this is one option to get your CSM and get into the
job that you are applying for that way so I hope that helped somewhat to get an
idea what you have to do to get into project management world if you like
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