Someone gave really valuable advice cautioning against getting a PMP cert, but I can’t find the post. Repost pls?

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Is it more about the fact that then you’ll be stuck doing project management all the time?

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If you like it, it’s all yours!!

SC1 hits it on the head. I got it and it didn’t help me get a raise or help my promotion accelerate. The only time it came up was if the client wanted a heavy duty project manager I would always end up getting proposed.

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Agree. There are consultants who end up getting stuck doing project management/delivery management.

And some firms pay ~5 percent premium on the base pay for someone with PMP.

It all depends on what you wish to do. Project management for your career (with a bit of extra money on the side) or something else?

It’s really only useful if you’re in government contracting. Certs are essential in winning and staffing government engagements

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Valuable advice cautioning against PMP certification? That doesn’t track

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Isn’t that the same thing ? 🤣

If you like plans, status reports, and following up then sure

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If your firm is paying for it, just go ahead and do it. Especially if you’re in government contracting. Personally, I’ve observed an uptick in clients (public and private) looking for SAFe Agilist certs, and highly recommend that cert over PMP if you have to pick. It’s actually useful and applicable to large projects, whereas PMP is based on some fantasy world where contracts are perfectly written and clients are rational.

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My fear is once a cert is on my resume, that’s what I’ll be doing. The implementer and follow up roles. Managers shouldn’t be trying to do those things as much as growing in management and sales skills. I can’t tell if what I said still applies for spinning out into tech industry.

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