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Do you calculate satistical percentiles to see where you stand as PM?

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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Compared to the rest of the herd?
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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
In one way or other I do, Maybe I should chart that at home in my shed and call it The Standard Deviation mancave.

I think I/we should develop one excel sheet and PM can use it for self-evaluation. What do you think guru AbuAlroudh?
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Kevin, what a great idea to standardize the evaluation method, it could be hard to reach for one type where all PMs agree to use it, we still find variance on how to evaluate yourself or your success.
I like the idea of SD mancave my only worries if ever we could achieve
6 sigma on your cave:)
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1 reply by Kevin Drake
Apr 28, 2018 2:32 AM
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Mou3elm, give me few weeks and we can do it together, I am juggling many balls now. We will give it a crack.

I think it is a nice project and all the community can benefit from it.
We will use the virtual cave.
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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Apr 28, 2018 2:20 AM
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Kevin, what a great idea to standardize the evaluation method, it could be hard to reach for one type where all PMs agree to use it, we still find variance on how to evaluate yourself or your success.
I like the idea of SD mancave my only worries if ever we could achieve
6 sigma on your cave:)
Mou3elm, give me few weeks and we can do it together, I am juggling many balls now. We will give it a crack.

I think it is a nice project and all the community can benefit from it.
We will use the virtual cave.
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Apr 28, 2018 3:06 AM
Riyadh Salih
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Kevin, great achievements starts with a simple idea, this would be our volunteer side project --- using excel sheet would be affordable to more people than using IBM Maximo KPI dashboard
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Apr 28, 2018 2:32 AM
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Mou3elm, give me few weeks and we can do it together, I am juggling many balls now. We will give it a crack.

I think it is a nice project and all the community can benefit from it.
We will use the virtual cave.
Kevin, great achievements starts with a simple idea, this would be our volunteer side project --- using excel sheet would be affordable to more people than using IBM Maximo KPI dashboard
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Amany Nuseibeh Speaker, Global Leader | Optimal Consulting Sydney, Nsw, Australia
This discussion is quite interesting. It made me wonder whether one would be better off comparing themselves to their plans - ie as PMs, we have our own personal and professional plans that would enable us to evaluate our progress and achievements in relation to what we set ourselves to achieve!
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Apr 28, 2018 3:07 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Amany it is always good to measure
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
We await the virtualcave experiment.
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Apr 28, 2018 3:07 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Sante, I am glad that you're in too
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
I compare with my own efforts. Each project is unique, each project manager [person] has their own uniqueness, thus, I don't see any value in comparing with others. Additionally, like when we're growing up, we are taught to focus on our own actions and strive to be the best we can be.
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Apr 28, 2018 3:09 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Andrew in some field it is a good idea to compare I understand your point of been unique.
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Mahabubur Rahman Project Manager Structures-Bridges| Department of Infrastructure, Government of Nothwest Territories Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
Just sharing ideas, there should be tools or website where a PM can measure his status by input of some typical data and learn which areas need to be developed as an output. The development could be training, self study or any other means. Then sometime go back to the tool and see where you currently stand now and the next areas if any to put attention to. Like progressive elaboration process in developing personal standard.
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2 replies by Mahabubur Rahman and Riyadh Salih
Apr 28, 2018 3:10 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Mahabubur, we are in the inception phase of that tool see the level of efforts of our Guru Kevin
Apr 28, 2018 5:56 PM
Mahabubur Rahman
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Oops! that's exciting-Riyadh. Congrats to Kevin for such a good initiative.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Riyadh -

I always equate project management to my two favorite sports - golf & weight-lifting. In non-professional scenarios for these sports, we don't compare ourselves to others, but to our baseline and we seek to constantly improve ourselves. As such, I like to know where I am right now, and strive for a personal best as I know there will always be those who are better golfers and weight-lifters than me.

Kiron

Kiron
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Apr 28, 2018 3:12 PM
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Kiron, thanks for your commit however as we do have benchmarking one of the tools used so why not applied to self measurement as well, of course in some aspects not everything
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Apr 28, 2018 4:36 AM
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This discussion is quite interesting. It made me wonder whether one would be better off comparing themselves to their plans - ie as PMs, we have our own personal and professional plans that would enable us to evaluate our progress and achievements in relation to what we set ourselves to achieve!
Amany it is always good to measure
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