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In the competitive job market, a little edge you retain can be counted for you. As an Agile professional who is willing to move toward project management, one such edge is the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner certification (PMI-ACP®).

What is the PMI-ACP®?

PMI-ACP®, a globally recognized and respected certification in the field of Agile project management. The certification is offered by the Project Management Institute, which is recognized as the world’s leading professional association for the program, project and portfolio management. Recruiters and employers value the PMI-ACP® certification as it validates the individual’s knowledge and experience in Agile project management.

Reasons to take the PMI-ACP

The PMI-ACP® certification is not designed for Agile beginners. In order to take the certification, one must have extensive knowledge and training in Agile project management. Therefore, the candidate who fulfills the criteria will familiar with the use of Agile methodology to manage projects, or will be a part of Agile projects previously. Though the work experience on Agile project is must, you do not require to hold the job title of project manager.

That being said, if at least one of the following three reasons is applicable to you, the PMI-ACP® may be the ultimate career choice you can make right now:

Credibility: For any professional with the knowledge and experience in Agile, the PMI-ACP® certification provides the confirmation of a neutral third party, adding credibility to the claims you make on a job application or a resume.

Expanded knowledge: For professional who is seeking career advancement in the field of Agile, the training and experience is necessary to pass the PMI-ACP® certification exam can do wonders for developing understanding and knowledge of how Agile is applied and practiced.

Practical Demonstration: In a circumstance where you find yourself ready to take more challenges in your current firm, but higher management is slow to make a decision, getting PMI-ACP® certified could be just what is needed to present your level of knowledge and experience, and therefore your eligibility for that new position.

The best way to prep and pass the certification exam is to take a prep bootcamp. At MSys Training, we offer three different options to prepare for the PMI-ACP exam:

Online Self-learning

Instructor-led Online Classroom

Instructor-led Classroom

Select the most suitable option that fits your professional routine!

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While adopting ITSM, you may come across several difficult challenges, few of them are well documented, whereas others are linked to the specific firms. While working on process and technology projects, the major challenge that stood out is Focus. What is focus in the project? Focus can be referred as the detailed knowledge of your business stakeholders’ requirements. The configuration Management process with a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is the most suitable example here. Complexity aside, the implementation of a CMDB can be highly expensive and the chances of gaining some or no value from this implementation is high. Therefore, in-depth knowledge of the information required to be stored in the database is the key to success of the project.

One of the biggest challenges in ITSM implementation processes is resistance to change. ITSM and ITIL experts identify common challenges related to ITSM that can be summarized in the ITSM core concept of Technology, People and Process as follows:

Challenges with Technology

Poor systems interoperability

Challenges in integrating systems

Reduction in IT efficiency caused by lack of automation

Lack of efficient ITSM reporting

Lack of a guidance for adaptation

A full blown ITIL implementation is too costly

Challenges with People

Lack of customer feedback to employees working on a project

Minimum channel for employees to give suggestions or feedback

Inter-departmental barriers delaying communication at work

Perception about ITIL that it is too generic and theoretical

Resistance to accept new procedures and policies

Challenges with Process

Incomplete implementation of process or No RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Contribution, Informed)

No standardized processes and fragile enforcement of policies

No follow-up monitoring, for instance, after Changes and Projects continue using same old habits

Lack of documented procedures to manage Service Improvement

Undefined Key Process Metrics

Lack of Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators

ITIL certification helps to overcome all the challenges. The certification is divided into 5 level as ITIL Foundation, ITIL Practitioner, ITIL Intermediate, ITIL Expert and ITIL Master. Learn more at https://www.msystraining.com/it-service-and-architecture

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Lean Six Sigma Experts Are Highly Paid Quality Professionals

Process improvement and quality management aren’t just helping organizations gain better outcomes, but they also help professionals specialize in those areas to achieve more lucrative careers. This is the finding of the latest salary survey conducted for quality process professionals.

We can witness the increase in the salaries for certified Lean and Six Sigma quality professionals in the past few years. Since 2005, the salaries for quality professionals have improved every year, only 2012 and 2014 are two exceptions. For 2017, salaries increased by 1.5% compared to 2016 that raise the average salary to $93,036 in the United States and in Canada, it raises to $87,569 (in Canadian dollars).

Top Salaries

The Quality Progress Salary Survey gathered information from over 5,800 quality management professionals who work across different industries. The survey states that the 95% of full-time employees gain experience hike in the salary, whereas part-time employees and self-employed consultants workers also witness the increase in the salary. Here are top three titles who commanded the highest salaries in 2017:

Executive or Vice President (Around $170,131)

Master Black Belt (Around $148,198)

Director (Around $132,780)

Along with experience, education and certifications were proven drivers for many quality management professionals. In the USA, professionals with over 20 years of working experience making $109,264, while professional with less than one year of experience made $63,752. On the other hand, in Canada, experienced workers earn average $106,370 and professionals with less than one year of experience earn $52,633.

The training and certification for quality improvement have various advantages to enter the quality management industry and to stick to that path.

Benefits of Lean and Six Sigma

The Quality Progress Salary survey also found a direct connection between attending Lean Six Sigma certification and salary increment. Master Black Belts is not only one of the highest paid quality professionals, but they also make a stunning $57,000 more compared to those without Master Black Belt certification,

However, this advantage extends to all levels of Lean Six Sigma training, education, certification and experience. The survey suggested the below numbers:

In the USA, professionals having minimum one level of Lean Six Sigma certification earn an average of $17,762 more compared to those without Lean Six Sigma training.

In Canada, the average salary of certified Lean Six Sigma professionals was $5,861 more compared to those without it.

Master Black Belts in Canada made an average of $44,636 more compared to professionals without a Master Black Belt certificate.

The survey gives a clear idea about the benefits of Lean Six Sigma with respect to process improvement. They benefit both, an individual and an organization.

Content Source:- https://msystrainingblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/lean-six-sigma-experts-are-highly-paid-quality-professionals/

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Big data is a big phenomenon — one that can overwhelm you in an unimaginably large scale. With the progress of technology firms through the Internet, it has become quite apparent that big data would have importance beyond all scales.The term big data is applied to unstructured, highly complex collection of data that warrants special processing technologies. It simply cannot be processed like regular data that you are familiar with.

Today’s organizations are increasingly looking for ways to uncover actionable insights, correlations, and hidden patterns from hoards of data lying around. Organizations such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have immense stores of big data and they use specific analytics tools to make sense of them.

Over the past few decades enterprises saw a gradual evolution of data management technologies from OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) to data warehousing and business intelligence. The latest trend in this data management technologies may be big data. Almost every large enterprise is using big data in its business advancement environments.

Business intelligence accelerates major business decisions made by IT organizations today. Enterprises today store transaction data on big data warehouses and make use of this data for various analysis purposes. Although the business intelligence tools have existed for quite a while in the enterprises, the tools and technologies for BI requires a revisit to accommodate one of the biggest changes that happened in the IT organizations today — advent of big data.

How does Big Data Benefit Business Intelligence?

Big data comes with some heavy advantages that can transform businesses completely. Some of them are:

Highly scalable: While the traditional DataStack platform is unable to scale to heavy workloads, big-data-based platform can scale almost infinitely.

Cost savings: Most of the big data platforms are coming with open-source licensing options. Cost of ownership, hence, is significantly less with big data BI architecture.

MapReduce: Programming interface MapReduce provides powerful custom data management and processing capabilities.

Unstructured data support: One major advantage of big data is that it supports structured, semi-structured, an unstructured data elements.

Enterprises should leverage big data for enterprise business intelligence by incorporating them in the existing BI architecture. The advantages of doing this has been discussed at length already. Also, the cost for doing this may be well justified when you reap the myriad business benefits.

Originally published at msystechnologies.com on August 10, 2017.