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Iāve seen a number of developers transition to PM roles through receiving their Scrum Master Certifications (Agile) and through studying various development methodology and best practices. These skills translate extremely well into IT PM roles as they enable the PM to practice servant leadership (e.g. āwhat can I do to remove blockersā) which in turn helps make the dev teams successful.
Iād stay away from spending money on PMP or CAPM for IT Project Management as they are too structured for current development best practices and donāt have as much weight for interviews as they used to. However, reading through the PMBOK is never a bad thing.
I think any extra creds always help but a focus on more tech and dev related management especially with a dev background will help more in the short term than going through a more formal PM route. really depends on the timeline. In my experience PMP hasnāt done much to differentiate oneself in front of a client but thatās not the same as interviewing
Scrum Master Cert, PMP would help. In long term though, she has better growth trajectory as a developer rather than PM. Unless it's a niche technology.
Smart, ty
You can use CAPM / PMP to leverage a better salary - and honestly it's not expensive at all. It is only expensive if you take expensive classes. You can get an equally good Udemy course for twenty bucks...