Rajeev SharmaPrincipal Consultant | Strategy, EA CoE | Digital Transformation, AI and Gen-AI| Tech MahindraGurgaon, Haryana, India
My family also associates project management with running ICT and research projects. Sometimes they feel it is entering in our day to day life as well.
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Feb 22, 2018 5:06 AM
Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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I hear you Rajeev. It isn't the first time I've been told by someone "I'm not a project."
Sante, you raised good point. My family don't think of any IT related to project management at all because they have seen me since beginning I do erection, mounting, installation & commissioning of electrical equipment for power generation or substation or erection of industrial mills from flat ground to production and then I also do O&M. till next project as you know my background is Electrical engineering and I also look into Mechanical and Civil Construction of the project as a whole. Saving Changes...
They feel proud and dignity as big Engineer handling these big projects, honestly Sante I my self can't see or don't understand that many project manager with IT background I see the IT guy in our mill just doing computer connections setting email or watching cyber security or providing muse / keyboard to staff when needed so he has no project to carry out even if there is migration in SAP enterprise software it would be done through head office, I don't consider if he upgrade few printers as a project.
But I am not saying there isn't more than that, there might be more than that as big & significant IT projects in some other business like you are working for Cisco networking technology or Oracle databases and applications. Saving Changes...
My family also associates project management with running ICT and research projects. Sometimes they feel it is entering in our day to day life as well.
I hear you Rajeev. It isn't the first time I've been told by someone "I'm not a project." Saving Changes...
I'm sure your family is proud of you Riyadh, that's great :-)
Actually there are some pretty huge projects in my domain like enterprise mobility. Sometimes it's hard to see but it happens all around us in organizations. Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
My wife used to be a project manager, so she knows. My kids think I sit at a computer all day. Which isn't all that inaccurate I suppose.
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Feb 22, 2018 7:32 AM
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Andrew, if it runs in the family, it must make life a little easier.
I regularly have family members telling me "Don't project manage me!". However, I do more subtly use some of our common tools in day-to-day life to get things done...
Kiron
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Feb 22, 2018 7:33 AM
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Kiron, so we both have had that said to us. Amazing!
I regularly have family members telling me "Don't project manage me!". However, I do more subtly use some of our common tools in day-to-day life to get things done...
Kiron
Kiron, so we both have had that said to us. Amazing! Saving Changes...
Janice GrierSenior Technical Vendor Manager| ATTShelby Township, Mi, United States
My husband and I work at the same company so he understands what I do so no biggie. However, my daughter just thinks I sit at a computer telling people what to do. Saving Changes...
