I've decided to have a crack at this blogging lark. It's been a long time coming, I've been pondering it for years, but finally I (hopefully temporarily) have some time to devote to it.
So, about me. I'm female, mid thirties, Project Manager with over 10 years experience delivering a variety of projects. infrastructure, software development, business change, marketing, rollouts, large, medium, small, tiny, easy (okay so not many), complex and so on. A jack of all trades, if you like.
I've been a Prince 2 Practitioner since 2006, although I have never actually practised Prince 2 and I don't know a project manager who officially has. It's a great foundation, but in general project managers are required to adhere to company in-house methodologies (usually some variation of Prince2). Some companies don't have a methodology at all and look to Prince as a guide book to help them deliver projects successfully.
As a fairly experienced Project Manager, I continually have my eye out looking for new and improved approaches to managing projects, along with trying out new methods of my own.
The project implementation is only a small part of the customer journey. Should project managers be fully engaged at the presales stage and follow through as account managers once the project is implemented? And then implement any future projects for their client? Should be be training up Project Managers on selling skills and cross training our sales and account managers in Project Management skills?
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