This gig is up at the end of next month and I want to go into a junior-ish PMO/BA type role next.
Only experience is current gig at top tier IB where I originally came in as a project bod and have gradually been doing more and more reporting and calls with the stakeholders. Now one of the junior permy PMs is leaving and for the rest of the gig I've been asked to completely assume her role as a junior PM. It will only be for a month but along with other reporting/customer conf calls I've been doing for months now I think I can safely say I've got some experience. Add to that the senior PMs here say they will have no problems giving me 'PM' references if I need them as I seem to have taken to it naturally.
I'm sure there is a whole host of the role I haven't touched on but what I've basically been doing here is as follows:
The project is an application migration of 3000 apps from the XP platform to the Win7 build. We are in to discover, document (install guides/test plans/PRFs etc), package (MSI), test then deploy.
The business units submit their apps and we take it form there until it's time for them to UAT them. Things have not gone smoothly at all mostly due to them giving us incomplete info which we've chased them for, they've ignored and then had a hissy fit that nothing's happening with their apps and they are going to miss their deployment deadline.
So my task (aside from discovery, integration testing, documentation which is what I was originally here to do) has been to get in contact with said BU stakeholder, get their list of apps, schedule daily conf calls and chase the statuses of all the apps on their list throughout the cycle and move them along while reporting progress each day.
I've done this with 4 different BUs now and they (end clientco) are now requesting me to do this on a regular basis. We start out with a nasty finger pointing atmosphere and end up working together like a well oiled machine and (almost) all their apps across the finish line in time for their deadline.
So - that being recent experience and the final month of full PMO duties - what should I be doing to position myself for a nice entry level PMO/BA type gig in the new year. I've got 2 months left here and will probably take December off and get Prince 2.
I have an MS partner software pack with copies of MS project/sharepoint/Visio I can practice on as well
Any other ideas?
Only experience is current gig at top tier IB where I originally came in as a project bod and have gradually been doing more and more reporting and calls with the stakeholders. Now one of the junior permy PMs is leaving and for the rest of the gig I've been asked to completely assume her role as a junior PM. It will only be for a month but along with other reporting/customer conf calls I've been doing for months now I think I can safely say I've got some experience. Add to that the senior PMs here say they will have no problems giving me 'PM' references if I need them as I seem to have taken to it naturally.
I'm sure there is a whole host of the role I haven't touched on but what I've basically been doing here is as follows:
The project is an application migration of 3000 apps from the XP platform to the Win7 build. We are in to discover, document (install guides/test plans/PRFs etc), package (MSI), test then deploy.
The business units submit their apps and we take it form there until it's time for them to UAT them. Things have not gone smoothly at all mostly due to them giving us incomplete info which we've chased them for, they've ignored and then had a hissy fit that nothing's happening with their apps and they are going to miss their deployment deadline.
So my task (aside from discovery, integration testing, documentation which is what I was originally here to do) has been to get in contact with said BU stakeholder, get their list of apps, schedule daily conf calls and chase the statuses of all the apps on their list throughout the cycle and move them along while reporting progress each day.
I've done this with 4 different BUs now and they (end clientco) are now requesting me to do this on a regular basis. We start out with a nasty finger pointing atmosphere and end up working together like a well oiled machine and (almost) all their apps across the finish line in time for their deadline.
So - that being recent experience and the final month of full PMO duties - what should I be doing to position myself for a nice entry level PMO/BA type gig in the new year. I've got 2 months left here and will probably take December off and get Prince 2.
I have an MS partner software pack with copies of MS project/sharepoint/Visio I can practice on as well
Any other ideas?
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