Project Management Recruitment Agencies?

[LOSTINPRADISE]

Hi Malvolio

I seem to have managed to upset you somehow. This was not my intention.

Six sigma was used within the company i worked for, company wide and adapted for New Technology Introduction within the IT department and all IT projects had to pass through this process. This was a media company owned by corporate America, therefore Six Sigma is not solely a manufacturing tool and is used for eliminating defects in any process from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service. There were elements of Prince2 in this process which i now recognise but Prince2 was not a formal method of project management used by them. I dont remember saying that one was a substitute for the other!!

I agree i obviously am doing something wrong or id be employed right now and thats why im on here to find out more.

As i mentioned in an earlier response i have read back on the threads and found some great advice, so thanks to all contributors.

Take a chill pill and dont take life so seriously. Im sure i would have loved ITIL in another life but for this life even at introductory level i found it rather dull!!!

But each to their own.

[malvolio]

Hey, don't worry about it. I'm like that with everyone. However, it's partly a test to see how you react to the sort of direct critiques you get as a freelance - you can only sell professional knowledge, all the soft stuff that impresses the permie HR people doesn't count any more. You have passed, BTW.

You might also not know that my role is usually a bit higher than PM, so I have a rather more pragmatic view than most about what is required.

Don't knock ITIL - that and Sarbanes Oxley are the drivers behind any organisation that has a trading function (even the energy one I work for at the mo). You need some form of PM methodology to build the solution, you will need ITIL and/or SOX understanding to deliver it into live usage. I'm also pretty clued up on 6Sigma (around brown belt standard, I guess, were I bothered to be measured) but remain unconvinced it is used properly or effectively in a modern RAD-based development shop - it's primarlily about building widgets to a consistent or improving standard and does not fit very well into an agile develeopement methodology, despite the Americans best efforts to make it do so.

Going back to your original question though, you don't get freelance PM work unless your CV demonstrates serious delivery to time and budget of at least one significant piece of work that you have led from end-to-end. If you can't show that, you need to aim a little lower initially - but keep trying because there's plenty of work out there. Also, you've got financial knowledge, but the PM history is the more important right now - so look around.