Yes these will provide basic understandingInstead of learning soft-skills stuff like Agile or Scrum, it is much better that you spend that 1k on hard skills like programming and data science. Even if you may not pursue a career in this aspect, at least you understand the language of IT professionals.
And this is important because the world is becoming more and more IT & Data-centric, and being able to put yourself in the mind of these people can only be beneficial to your career.
It helps if the entire life is in processes or transformation and what have youYea courses on scrum or agile is really a huge waste of money. I could easily point your way to a dozen free online courses that does a good job on this compared to the paid ones.
I think it is much better to invest your money in courses that teach actual hard skills - preferably IT skills!
Just curious, do we need some background in IT to do data programming and data science at a beginner level?Instead of learning soft-skills stuff like Agile or Scrum, it is much better that you spend that 1k on hard skills like programming and data science. Even if you may not pursue a career in this aspect, at least you understand the language of IT professionals.
And this is important because the world is becoming more and more IT & Data-centric, and being able to put yourself in the mind of these people can only be beneficial to your career.
Just curious, do we need some background in IT to do data programming and data science at a beginner level?
I did a whole bunch of PM courses and really interested to undertake IT technical courses but the available time outside of classes to study is a huge problem for me.
Did you attend the course yourself? Do you need to be good in math? I am a math idiot.No you don't need programming background at all! The school that I have been recommending to people, Heicoders Academy, designed their courses such that people with zero programming background can eventually become skilled data analyst. Their courses are only 3 hours a week, so if you can spare just 3 hours a week their courses might work for you!
Did you attend the course yourself? Do you need to be good in math? I am a math idiot.
learn six sigma is a new concept to me though. I am more inclined towards scrum more than agile as scrum do not have a fixed timeline to complete a task.Scrum/Agile/LSS courses are useful in project management knowledge context, but don't bothering clocking those accredition just to add a whole list of alphabets behind your LinkedIn name.
Recruiters will not even give a hoot about those 2-3 days courses accredition unless you're trying out for a project management role, which non of the above will beat PMP/MBA.
Take modular courses offered by Universities that are stackable or $1000 can cover one whole specialist diploma by local polytechnic, depending on what's your goal.
https://heicodersacademy.com/WAD100
The curriculum for heicoders seems decent, but I don't feel the need to have a live instructor. just a Udemy course will do for me.
Six sigma is more like a project management philosophy than a project management framework (such as scrum and agile). The idea of lean six sigma is to reduce faults/bugs/ with good metrics monitoring, and acting on the said metrics.learn six sigma is a new concept to me though. I am more inclined towards scrum more than agile as scrum do not have a fixed timeline to complete a task.
I feel that a lot of self studies are still required prior to live instructor learning. Cause for example I am very new into machine learning, and the live instructor teaches the basics of machine learning, a lot of knowledge will be one ear in one ear out. For online pre recorded lectures, at least you can repeat over and over again.Haha yea people who are resourceful (i.e can find their own answers on stackoverflow) or already had some form of background tend to be alright with the self-learning format. But live instructor is beneficial for those who don't know what they don't know, or just need someone to answer their queries. This is especially for something as conceptually abstract as machine learning (not talking about python programming but machine learning).
Explain why this course is world class?I took Heicoder's AI200 at the advice of DataScience Guy. And while they don't have skillsfuture, the course is already very cheap on its own ($600). And if you have NTUC union membership, you can claim an additional $250.
Honestly this course is really really world class. Even if you are not interested in going in data analytics, it will help you gain a worldview and understand the language which data professionals speak. And that is going to be useful especially if you aspire to be a manager in future, cause the whole world will be powered by data science in future (I believe)