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It seems yesterday when I joined this community. I started asking some questions as Anonym, maybe I was shy or maybe I was overwhelming to see the quantity of great contributors and people with impressive resumes and career paths belongs to this community.
When started to prepare PMP certification, I found very useful the PM Challenge, and I used it to test my knowledge in different knowledge areas.
After get my PMP certification, I started to participate, more actively, on a daily basis, discussions, polls, comments in articles or blogs.
Articles or Blog? I never had a blog before. But I love to write and share my experiences.
I asked the community, why they recommended - participate in this community with a blog or maybe an article.
Then as we said in catalan “dit i fet” (said and done), I started the blog.
I thought about the benefits
- Challenge myself and improve my English skills.
I’ve read that writing serves to memorize and create a foundation for the newly learned knowledge. Well, maybe writing on the computer is not the same as writing by hand. Whatever, in my case, write in English something different a technical documents or meeting notes and serves to continue learning.
- Improve my network.
Although blogs are not the only or best way to meet new people, they are a means to start a relationship that can end in a new friend, contact or client. Being new in the United States, I know that I have to work and increase my network.
- Share my knowledge.
The advantage of a blog is that it allows me to demonstrate my skills and knowledge, which may surprise more than one executive or hiring manager.
From my point of view, a blog demonstrates an entrepreneurial capacity that many hiring managers may be looking for.
- Giving back to the community
As far as I remember, we can ask for PDU’s for this blog, in the category of giving back. Today, I don’t request for those. But maybe my experience or my entries will entertain or help other members of this community.
Then I used my PM knowledge to start.
Initiating Process Group
Identify stakeholders
Project Management community, avoid writing about vacations or your how kind is your neighbor and his automatically snow removal…try to don’t talk only about IT.
Planning Process Group
Plan scope management - Content variable, from lessons learned to how frustrated I felt. (example previous entry VP of Buzzwords)
Define activities & Estimate activity duration
2 hour to write the post + grammar check.
30 min formatting and uploading in the site.
It means at least 5 hour month.
Plan schedule and develop – 2 Post per month on Friday.
Plan Quality management – Check and ask for feedback
Plan Communication management – Review one a week the comments in your post.
Plan risk management & identify the risks
- No ideas
- No time
- No engage
Risk responses
No ideas – read a book and comment here, review the last IT news, check the discussions, check other social media.
No time – Review the agenda, update the frequency of publications.
No engage – Read about how to create an amazing post or blog
Executing + Monitoring and Controlling
Now I’m in this step, I’ve realized that when I started the blog the frequency of posting was easy to keep.
During January I’ve only posted one entry, I’ve checked the plan, the content and now I’m checking my agenda (Control Schedule), and daily schedule to continue on plan. Was a little deviation of January + February, but with the risk analysis responses planned, I should keep going (Control Risks)
Regarding the interacting with the stakeholders (Control stakeholder engagement), not all post are having the same rating or number of comments. I’ve realized that I should work on the title and the summary in order to engage more people to read it.
I’m answering and all the comments in my posts and give more information or feedback to those that participate (Control communication)
At this point from my point of view, I’m trying to do my best. And I should keep going.
Do you have a blog? Did you plan it before start? What are your risks?
Posted on: March 10, 2017 11:38 AM |
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