PMP Vs PRINCE2

Hurdle Race for Project Management Certification

Nearly 50% of the people, who are opt out for professional certification, pondering on acquiring project management courses. Apart from the organizational benefits, certifications in the Project Management sector have been associated with improved employment opportunities and increased salaries. Latest Project Management Salary Survey from PMI giving us the feedback from more than 30,000 Project Management professionals on this fact.

Just because of the ‘the Global Economic crisis’ and ‘a diminishing job market’, with that in mind, there’s no surprise that Project Managers are increasingly turning to get certification in order to edge over their competitors for that promotions, or even just to clutch onto their current role. It is almost becoming like a hurdle race among the project leaders.

Since its common these days, a divergence and conflict thought on choosing the certification between PMP and PRINCE2. Pointless and needless to know whether to come across this dilemma or not!

Both these two certifications are globally recognized Project Management certifications:

1. The Project Management Professional (PMP) - is offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and it is based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) guide Fifth edition from May 2013. 
2. Projects in Controlled Environments (PRINCE2) - divide into Foundation and Practitioner certification is the leading offering from APMG. 

Pre-Requisites

Since this plays a role of big deciding factor on selecting either one of these course.

For PRINCE2 –There is no pre-requisites or experience required for this certification. This makes the choice of looking at this certification whereas in PMP, it requires 4 years of bachelor degree with 4,500 hours leading projects, and 35 Contact hours through PMP Prep course or High school graduation with 7,500 hours leading projects, and 35 Contact hours through PMP Prep course.

But more number of Project Managers holds PMP certifications than they do PRINCE2 Worldwide. Because the PMP appears to be a better paid certification compared to PRINCE2.

Conclusion:

Due to monetary constraints, PRINCE2 would be a better choice by the project managers and PMP comes out to be ‘the logical choice’. It really depends on the circumstances. But both the certifications would actually benefit by having knowledge of both methodologies since they offer value in different areas.

Wide Comparison of Agile Model with Waterfall Methodology

    

Agile Vs Waterfall Methodology

Do you know how effectively the adoption of Agile in projects is delivering products with early ROI? Certainly! Software professionals may have innumerable advantages when they adopt the Agile software development instead of considering other Waterfall model. According to my opinion, while comparing Agile with the Waterfall methodology, agile principles and practices would always produce an unusual product.

In recent days, Agile methodologies have greatly ploughed its ground in the software development projects because of its huge reputation among the project managers who are implementing Agile in their projects.

Agile Vs. Waterfall Methodology:

• Changes and alterations are adapted at the end of each stage in Agile methods and more importantly there is no necessity rewriting the entire program. Whereas, it is hard to change the software which is designed and implemented according to the user needs in the Waterfall method. It can be fixed by returning back to the source and need to design it by new system. Overall this method is inefficient and very costly.
• Since the changes can be made after the initial planning in Agile methodology, it will be easier to add the new features with up to date with the latest developments.
• Unlike the traditional waterfall approach, the agile development method is based on incremental and iterative development. The agile model does not build a complete system at once in software development, but rather it develops incrementally.
• Time consumption in upfront for documenting requirements, since the development is done incrementally.
• In the Agile model, customer feedback will occur simultaneously with software development at the end of each sprint in order to evaluate the project prioritization, whereas in the waterfall approach will perform all testing after the completion of the project.
• Since the testing is done at the end of each sprint, the bugs are rectified at the time of test in Agile model. Hence there won’t be any bugs at the end of the project. Whereas in Waterfall model, as the whole product is only tested at the end, the bugs will affect the whole product.
• Customer satisfaction will happen rapidly, continuous delivery of useful software in agile approach.

Concluding this dilemma by referring the project managers or the leaders of a team in SDLC can adopt agile approach to their project by means of project management course. Rebus Business solutions will guide on this to acquire the courses like CSM, PMI-ACP, PMI-PMP and more. They are reviewed and registered from the Project Management Institute as a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P).