Help me decide on my next Masters Program

[Kamikazee]

Ladies and Gents,

Having completed my Master of Science (CS), I'm trying to decide on which Masters program to complete next. I've got positions in the following:
Master of Project Management
Master of Sustainable Development
Master of International Journalism

I am highly interested in all three, the costs vary (SD being engineering is 15k more than the other two), but I can afford it. Just not sure which one to start with ... I may consider doing two at once ....

If you had to choose between these three, what would you pick?

(The poll allows two options)

[kplxz]

Out of those 3, imo PM is the only one to do. The other two are way off base these days.

[SCUMBAG]

sifz has a master in baiting !

i agree project management would be my go

[Saratoga]

Congrats MCS Kami.
Being a greenie, ide have to say SD ... and PM if your a real study slut.

[booGz]

keep away from the project managment stuff.... its not relevant these days... there are _much_ better ways to manage projects...

[kplxz]

[kplxz]

[booGz]

Yes the world is built using the waterfall systems for managing projects, but lets not propigate this
broken system!

In nearly 15 years of I.T work I never once found a waterfall system actually work. There are lots
of reasons for this, one that sticks out is the fact that in these types of projects 60% of requrements
will change for whatever reason. This means that you can't plot the path for the project up front. It
is a complete fallacy that you can completely mitigate all the risks in the project up front, simply
because things change.

There is a better way, in the last 3 years I discovered the Agile Manifesto and it really stuck a chord
with me, you can run projects that deliver value to a business and it does'nt have to take a blank
cheque or take a long time to realise value. I've been using Scrum and Kanban for delivering software
products at a high quality (I write medical software that is used in the USA, and there is a _ton_ of
regulations imposed by the FDA... you dont even want to know... trust me).

If you're interested I'll go in dept in this subject, as project management, or rather product delivery,
is a passion of mine.

I will however accept that traditional project management has its place, in history. It's broken and it
sucks. If you use PMI, PMP, Havard, whatever, you are stealing from your clients. Shame on you.

[kplxz]

I agree with you boogz

I'm 15+ years in IT and some other industries, and I see exactly the same thing.

I definately would like you to go into depth there as I'm also interested in this and haven't heard of those things you're mentioning there