How I shift my carrier from ERP implementation to project management

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Mostafa Mahmoud Abbas Oracle ASCP Application Manager| Al Jomaih Holding Company Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Hello All,
Currently I'm implementation and support engineer. I have participated in several project for implementing ERP. My role was pure technical one. I want now to shift to PM carrier. How can I make this shift? Does PMP certification is enough beside my 12 years experience in this field?

Posted: Jan 20, 2016 1:05 PM

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Mostafa Mahmoud Abbas Oracle ASCP Application Manager| Al Jomaih Holding Company Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Jan 20, 2016 4:40 PM

Replying to Suhail Iqbal

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I suppose someone working on ERP projects for over 12 years, cannot be devoid of project management knowledge altogether, no matter even if it was mostly technical. You must have worked in any capacity in several ERP projects, sometimes helping the project manager in establishing his business case, preparing charter, plans and even execution, monitoring and control. I cannot believe you never learnt anything about project management from your experience. If you ponder minutely, I am sure you will be able to extract several hours of project management experience from whatever you have gained in last 12 years. In case you lack in certain areas, identify those, work and gain experience in those specific areas, when you feel you have requisite experience in hand, you can go for PMP. Moreover, it is not at all change of career or profession. You can still keep working on ERP projects and still be a project manager.

Hello Suhail,
I agree with you i was not far away from PM. But also I can't say i was with the required degree of proffision for PM. When i read PMBOK i found gaps in the way what i am doing. My concern is how easy it will be start making my work in a higher degree of proffision. I can consider my self as SME. But in the same time I cannot say I'm experienced PM. How to grap that experiance?

Posted: Jan 24, 2016 4:43 PM

Saurabh Mathur Project Manager, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, ITIL®,SSGB| Publicis Sapient Ghaziabad, Uttar Pardesh (U.P.), India

Hi Mostafa,
Your question can be answered in two parts.

Firstly,you can definitely move toward project management and having PMP is sure going to help you.As an technical person you must have followed some project methodology under the guidance of your project managers and if you were an active member of the team you must be aware of many technical thing realted with project management.you just need to identify the things which comes under project management ( methodology ,scheduling,risk management ,team management etc) in the tasks you had handled.Identifying and enhancing those known skills will give you good Project management knowledge.

Secondly,Project Management is an different role in itself,so if you think that your technical experience can be counted as PM role than you need to think again.You need to acquire different skill-sets for being a Project manager.Till now you must have had handled a few module as an technical person but as a PM you need to see things on bigger scale as any mistake can have cascading effects on the project.

So in my opinion do give some time to yourself analyze what you exactly want.If you want to move eventually toward project management do study and try to implement those learning's in your projects and try to get some extra responsibilities which are in boundaries of project management.Do remember practical experience is must in any field.

Posted: Jan 25, 2016 3:51 AM

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