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I'm currently pursuing an Econ(Hons) degree and have nearly completed a Data Analytics and Business Intelligence certification. I'm now looking to add Project Management to my skillset and would really appreciate your advice.

I'm considering a few certifications: CAPM, CSM, or possibly the Google Project Management cert. I'm also a bit unclear on Agile/Scrum – could anyone explain what that entails and how it fits in?

Beyond Project Management, I'm also interested in:

Supply Chain (CSCP certification)

Lean Six Sigma (Green/Yellow Belt – not sure what this is, or if it's relevant)

Financial Modeling and Analysis (further down the line)

I have complementary skills from using power automate/query and college skill courses in leadership, coms, digital marketing and financial literacy.

I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the options.

Any advice you can offer would be incredibly helpful.

Thanks!

P.S. For context, I'm based in India and studying at Ramanujan College, Delhi University.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Agile is a critical one. I'm a data analyst and a data engineer (I do a bit of both) but most of my work is in the Microsoft stack. There are loads of certificates to get from Microsoft, like the AZ-900, DP-900, DP-600 if you're interested in Fabric.

But for the Agile thing, consider traditional project development as a straight line. There is a start and an end. Agile projects look like an input line into loads of loops. These loops are called 'sprints'. In a sprint, every developer takes ownership of work items and by the end of the sprint, they are finished. If not, they need to be refined or they are taken into the next sprint. There's will be someone who guards the process, there is someone who knows what they want but there isn't really a project leader.

If you're interested in doing agile projects at large companies, you'll likely go from developing to implementing straight into maintaining the environment. Look into DevOps. It's the future of project development, especially in IT.