Do you have a successful experience in working as a Project Manager remotely?
Jennifer LapinPMO| Regent LLCFort Lauderdale, FL, United States
It's becoming so popular to work remotely, especially for IT. Do you have this kind of experience in Project management? Does an employer support this opportunity? Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Evgeniya
I have no experience working (only remotely) as a project manager.
In projects that I have the opportunity to participate as a project manager I have frequent contacts with the people who are part of my teams.
Is it possible to achieve the objectives of a project only through contacts via the internet?
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1 reply by shoba L
Sep 29, 2019 9:55 AM
shoba L
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Hi ,
I have a question reg 99.99 % availability on a project.. can you pl help me getting an answer for the below question..
You are operating a mission-critical system on behalf of one of your customers. You are contractually committed to high-availability of over 99.999% of the time. What methods and procedures will you install to ensure the needed system availability? How will you act when you find out the system is down unexpectedly?
There are definitely virtual PM roles available out there. Covance is an example of an organization in the pharma space that offers such roles for folks who have sufficient domain expertise to be effective operating in this manner.
Much earlier in my career, I managed a IT project where there were key stakeholders and team members in a half dozen sites around the world. While this made things challenging, strong sponsorship and time spent aligning those stakeholders to a common goal went a long way towards helping the project succeed.
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George FreemanThought Leader | Author | Architect| Florida, United States
Evgeniya,
I did remote project management for about five years, managing a team six hours away. The arrangement worked out as I did most of the traveling (which was international). When home, I would visit the office one day every couple of weeks on average to keep connected with my formal reporting lines.
Our project war room had video conferencing along with my home office and other locations. So, between that and collaboration tools the arrangement worked out very well. My experience in general though is that there needs to be a compelling reason for a PM to work from home in a traditional enterprise (e.g. international stakeholders as Kiron stated) otherwise it is frowned upon due to the degree of engagement a PM has with stakeholders and team members in a local environment.
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2 replies by Jennifer Lapin and shoba L
Sep 29, 2019 9:47 AM
shoba L
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Hi George,
I have a question on 10X quality and productivity. Can you pl help me in getting an answer..?
We are executing a unique approach for productizing professional services to achieve 10x quality and productivity results. The example given here https://drive.google.com/open?id=1W0vR0twT...67XZEteH2fZkbWv illustrates a transformation we have implemented for a specific service that involves fetching data updates from numerous web-sources and applying them to a set of unique reference data schemes as used by our product.
a) Please explain what in your view are the key factors in the suggested change that can bring 10x quality and\or productivity, and what are the risks when implementing such a change.
b) Please also share further improvements that can be applied to achieve even better quality/productivity results.
Thanks in advance.
Shoba
Sep 29, 2019 3:30 PM
Jennifer Lapin
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George, great job!
I agree that not a lot of big companies are ready to hire PM for remotely work, especially in Russia we don't have this practise for PM position.
But in the IT technologies century everything is possible and you're right, there are bunch of tools, which help to deal with communication gap in projects.
My employer's offices are all over the world, as are our suppliers, and our customers so on many of my projects, most of the people are remote to most others. It is an extremely large matrix organization so most people are working multiple projects, adding some significant challenges as a PM.
It is hard to schedule time with multiple people every time you have an issue. What I see some PMs doing is calling many 30 minute meetings to try to both raise and address an issue in the course of the meeting. Most come into the meeting blind to the subject, and it's a discussion that deserves more thought. I do not find that effective.
What I am doing more and more is having individual conversations with each of the critical stakeholders prior to when many need to meet, figure out how to focus the discussion, and how long a discussion should realistically take. It involves more time on my end for the pre-coordination and planning, but there are less large meetings and I find them far more productive.
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1 reply by Jennifer Lapin
Sep 29, 2019 3:41 PM
Jennifer Lapin
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Hi Keith,
That's a good approach! I've also faced with unproductive meetings a lot of times and I totally understand you.
To be prepared for a meeting is important not only for a speaker but for every and each participant)
I always use a very clear goal and agenda for any meetings and control time and issues discussed.)
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
From 25 year ago I am working in this type of environments. In fact, I firmly believe is the way of work for the next years due to organizations can take advantage of lot of things related to project mangement from costs to work time.
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2 replies by Jennifer Lapin and shoba L
Sep 29, 2019 9:50 AM
shoba L
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Hi Luis ,
I have a question reg 99.99 % availability on a project.. can you pl help me getting an answer for the below question..
You are operating a mission-critical system on behalf of one of your customers. You are contractually committed to high-availability of over 99.999% of the time. What methods and procedures will you install to ensure the needed system availability? How will you act when you find out the system is down unexpectedly?
Thanks in advance.
Shoba.
Sep 29, 2019 3:44 PM
Jennifer Lapin
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Sergio, thanks,
I also believe this approach works and yes, the cost can be reduced.
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Mikel SteadmanPMO Leader| Development Dimensions InternationalTroy, Nh, United States
Evgeniya
I have experience doing both and have worked with both in-office and remote scrum masters, product managers, project managers, and IT.
My take is that remote is OK as long as the workforce are proven contributors with a high degree of discipline both in communication and the work.
My preference is in-office for the bigger, more costly, more complex projects.
Mikel
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1 reply by Jennifer Lapin
Sep 29, 2019 3:58 PM
Jennifer Lapin
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Hi Mikel,
I mostly have experience in big companies working on-site and it's so comfortable to have your team near you. And sure you can control everybody and especially for Russia, the control part is crucially important in projects. If you don't control you won't get the result, unfortunately. Some people are more conscious, but generally, the majority waits when you remind them about the task.
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Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Remote working can work, but certainly, not a replacement for co-location, and should be left to more senior-level folks. If remote working is the way the organization decides to go, there will need to be an infrastructure set in place to support it - video, collab, chat, etc. Additionally, there should be a regular cadence of travel to get the team together (within reason, many factors to consider of course)
Personally, I do not like remote working. I like having the option, but prefer an on-site setting so able to interact with others. I firmly believe there is a gap that just cannot be filled when remote. JMO.
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1 reply by Jennifer Lapin
Oct 02, 2019 9:19 AM
Jennifer Lapin
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Agree with infrustructure requirements, it's really important.
I did remote project management for about five years, managing a team six hours away. The arrangement worked out as I did most of the traveling (which was international). When home, I would visit the office one day every couple of weeks on average to keep connected with my formal reporting lines.
Our project war room had video conferencing along with my home office and other locations. So, between that and collaboration tools the arrangement worked out very well. My experience in general though is that there needs to be a compelling reason for a PM to work from home in a traditional enterprise (e.g. international stakeholders as Kiron stated) otherwise it is frowned upon due to the degree of engagement a PM has with stakeholders and team members in a local environment.
Hi George,
I have a question on 10X quality and productivity. Can you pl help me in getting an answer..?
We are executing a unique approach for productizing professional services to achieve 10x quality and productivity results. The example given here https://drive.google.com/open?id=1W0vR0twT...67XZEteH2fZkbWv illustrates a transformation we have implemented for a specific service that involves fetching data updates from numerous web-sources and applying them to a set of unique reference data schemes as used by our product.
a) Please explain what in your view are the key factors in the suggested change that can bring 10x quality and\or productivity, and what are the risks when implementing such a change.
b) Please also share further improvements that can be applied to achieve even better quality/productivity results.
From 25 year ago I am working in this type of environments. In fact, I firmly believe is the way of work for the next years due to organizations can take advantage of lot of things related to project mangement from costs to work time.
Hi Luis ,
I have a question reg 99.99 % availability on a project.. can you pl help me getting an answer for the below question..
You are operating a mission-critical system on behalf of one of your customers. You are contractually committed to high-availability of over 99.999% of the time. What methods and procedures will you install to ensure the needed system availability? How will you act when you find out the system is down unexpectedly?
Thanks in advance.
Shoba.
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1 reply by Sergio Luis Conte
Sep 30, 2019 10:11 AM
Sergio Luis Conte
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If I am a project manager then I am not operating anything. Perhaps I did not undertand your question.
I have no experience working (only remotely) as a project manager.
In projects that I have the opportunity to participate as a project manager I have frequent contacts with the people who are part of my teams.
Is it possible to achieve the objectives of a project only through contacts via the internet?
Hi ,
I have a question reg 99.99 % availability on a project.. can you pl help me getting an answer for the below question..
You are operating a mission-critical system on behalf of one of your customers. You are contractually committed to high-availability of over 99.999% of the time. What methods and procedures will you install to ensure the needed system availability? How will you act when you find out the system is down unexpectedly?
