Transition to a Project Manager

tcfreer · 9 Mar 2016 at 13:24

Ok, so i'm getting to the point were I want to make the final Career change for my self - and I want to settle in something that I'll be happy in and have constant 'challange' in.

From my exposure to it nothing seem's to hit the spot more then Project Management - now this is just my view and your mileage my differ.

So besides doing my Prince2 - what advice do you current PM's have in getting into this role?

I'm aware of Prince2, SixSigma Lean etc - though I don't have the offical bit of paper that say's you've passed them, but is there anything else?

And what's better - the relative saftey of being a Perm PM or the excitment of different companies and more exposure of being a Contract PM

tcfreer · 10 Mar 2016 at 09:33

Ok well my back ground is all MI, Reports and data - making sense of 'stuff' and providing s report that other people can use to make a decsion.

Project Exposure - well besides supplying data/ testing reports for projects, the only real exposure I have is a small ish project I did to move 300+ new users from one system to another. Few hurdles, such as getting a physical link in place to allow them to access the system, aswell as setting them up, putting people in place to train, provide the actual material to train them.

What draw's me to it - well in my current work place, we have 100's of PM's - and from my interaction's with them, none of them seem to have understand what they are working on. There very silo'd in there approach - it all about there project - full stop. It doesn't help us as a business, but when it's raised it's closed off as just 'thats the way we do this'
I don't think this should be the case at all, and I'd like to work my way up and prove that to be the case.

I'm not bothered about the increased pay, the extra responsabilties etc - they don't drive me. But knowing that I am trying to do the right thing and what seem's to be the right way does

tcfreer · 10 Mar 2016 at 10:38

Ok i'll mention that and add it to our PD document's see what that does - it might get the ball rolling at least

Is there any value in doing my Prince2 myself?

tcfreer · 14 Mar 2016 at 12:21

Cheers Guys - lots of realy valuable information there

Yeah I can see reading my post and yours @HangTime how it come across an your right indeed.

I've started looking out for PM Course's - I'm alos on Groupon so I'll pounce on it there.

I've a regular review with my manager tomorrow so I'll raise it there for certain.

Thanks everyone - i'll see were it leads