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I am looking to leave where I am now and I am having a hard time because I am either way over or under qualified for things. Most of what I have done has been small-medium sized projects in the medical communications field dealing with MLR (2 years ending in 2017) and now for software/custom websites (2 years) and I bounced around in media before that doing some PM stuff, writing, and sales. Both PM jobs were waterfall so I didn't have to worry much about calculating critical paths or drafting up some crazy schedules. Neither place used any software for resource allocation, scheduling, etc. I have gotten little meaningful SDLC experience... I have done a little documentation for the small sites we do but it's some awful hybrid of requirements and specs that doesn't make sense for either party and would be fairly useless at a better organized company. Any new software build is an absolute joke as far as how it's managed. This place wasn't even doing user acceptance until 3 years ago and the PMO is about as old. That being said, poo poo gets out on time, I tend to schedule and balance work pretty well despite garbage timelines and hilariously off estimates, I'm good at managing stakeholders, and I have a third eye for people who started working on something they shouldn't and are gonna blow up a timeline. Basically, I feel like I would potentially have problems in a more structured environment or running a large, complex project. Or at least a pretty significant learning curve. Am I just letting imposter syndrome get me or is that a legit concern?
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savesthedayrocks posted:Sweet, a PM thread. could be worse, I am currently being forced to use trello, even though 100% redundant (and out of sync) data from a system we already have. And we are being forced to use it for weekly task tracking. Mind you my dept closed some 400+ projects this past year... image a weekly pseudo sprint board with backlog, active, and blocked columns, but none of those individual cards have enough info or correlation with anything to be useful to any PM, stakeholder, person doing the work, etc. There are literally 80 cards on this dumb thing now and it's my slowest week of the year, and I need to care about all of them. We also don't track progress on any of those, and it's 100% waterfall, so as a PM I gain gently caress all from it.
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Jan 14, 2020 04:08
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Higgy posted:Planner fails at trying to be Jira and doesn't come close to being good for project management. I've found really only useful for managing small tasks across a small team. I'm sorry you have to use it. Yeah planner is a worse trello. The only thing it has going for it is all the built in tie ins to 365 for your own task management. Thank god I was able to talk my company out of not using it as a PM solution.
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Jan 15, 2020 13:42
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As far as the PMP cert is concerned, what is the definition of leading a project At my current place, myself and the other PM are also the spec writers. He tends to be the primary on that (like a 75-25 split) where as I run our day to day task management, scheduling, resource management, aligning dependencies, clearing blockers, stakeholder management, etc for all the projects, even ones that I did not write requirements for. For things I did not write specs for, my name isn't going to appear on any documentation, quality documents, etc. Our PM hours are not logged anywhere at all for any of those tasks.
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Jan 16, 2020 13:03
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spwrozek posted:They will not care, they just want you to take their class and pay for the exam. yeah, I figured. I don't even know if I particularly feel like going through the headache, but it seems like at least half the places I am looking at prefer it or outright require it thanks guys
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Jan 17, 2020 02:19
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LawfulWaffle posted:This is a bit of a rant, but I want to compare experiences for a second. I just joined my agency’s PMO in May and I really enjoy the work for the most part. I can see myself making Project Management my career, but not here. Brief backstory: I rose through the ranks starting as a temp in the call center through network technician and landed as a Management Analyst in the PMO, which is under IT. Too common. Right now I am some weird combo of PM and some BA stuff (specs, etc), with some dashes of department manager, release manager, light product management, and whatever the hell else someone is doing very poorly at the moment. It is going about as well as you'd think. Our owner doesn't believe in titles, and thinks any kind of people management is not a full time job. We do not have functional department managers, and my boss is a director with about 30-40 direct reports who he can't manage Most of the other places I am interviewing for give me similar understaffed vibes, but they're larger and pay a lot more.
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Feb 11, 2020 01:35
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Dik Hz posted:This has been my experience. same as well
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Aug 8, 2020 14:13
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Pryce posted:Just make sure that you get a good sense in your interviews of what the companies themselves believe their project managers are supposed to be. Best possible situation is always gonna be to find a company that agrees with your definition, regardless of what you feel that definition is. I think this is an important distinction to make. My last 2 places I were closer to this/what Xenoborg described.
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