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What's the most successful personal project that you ever managed?

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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Your home renovation? Your child's school assignment. Your wedding day?

Did you really manage it as a project?
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
My 5-year plan when reinventing my career. Did I have a project plan? No. But I certainly had a plan, with steps/checkpoints to get to my goal. There, of course, was all kinds of other chaos happening along the way, but I adapted as necessary, finding my way to the end of the rainbow.

I suppose life is a program with a series of projects along the way. This was one of them. I've since moved on, though revel in my success/journey daily.

**my wife handled the wedding day stuff. I set up the secret surprise honeymoon :)
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Apr 21, 2018 7:10 PM
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Andrew I like that what you said even with no written plan we still do have a steps / checkpoints and conditions benchmark / threshold set in our mind when it comes to chose and decide.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
It was actually a program - within 3 months, almost a quarter century ago, I changed cities, changed jobs and got married :-)

Kiron
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Apr 21, 2018 7:13 PM
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Kiron good program with three projects what was the name of your program where you grouped all three projects.
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Anish Abraham Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington Auburn, Wa, United States
There were several projects, getting married, moving to US, buying a new house etc.
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Apr 21, 2018 7:14 PM
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Anish look like you are running a portfolio :)
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Interesting responses Andrew, Kiron and Anish. Good to see a project mentality assisted in those successful personal milestones.
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Apr 21, 2018 12:49 PM
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My 5-year plan when reinventing my career. Did I have a project plan? No. But I certainly had a plan, with steps/checkpoints to get to my goal. There, of course, was all kinds of other chaos happening along the way, but I adapted as necessary, finding my way to the end of the rainbow.

I suppose life is a program with a series of projects along the way. This was one of them. I've since moved on, though revel in my success/journey daily.

**my wife handled the wedding day stuff. I set up the secret surprise honeymoon :)
Andrew I like that what you said even with no written plan we still do have a steps / checkpoints and conditions benchmark / threshold set in our mind when it comes to chose and decide.
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Apr 21, 2018 2:26 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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It was actually a program - within 3 months, almost a quarter century ago, I changed cities, changed jobs and got married :-)

Kiron
Kiron good program with three projects what was the name of your program where you grouped all three projects.
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1 reply by Kiron Bondale
Apr 22, 2018 10:32 AM
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Thanks Riyadh - at the time, I didn't come up with this name for it, but a good program name would be "Kiron 2.0" :-)

Kiron
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Apr 21, 2018 5:06 PM
Replying to Anish Abraham
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There were several projects, getting married, moving to US, buying a new house etc.
Anish look like you are running a portfolio :)
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Apr 23, 2018 10:50 AM
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You are right, Riyadh :)
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Sante this is a good touchy question there were so many projects in life with different priorities however no matter if small or big project all have played a part to shape what I am right now
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Apr 21, 2018 7:42 PM
Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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A personal projects certainly do shape who we are today.
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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Sante said "successful"
My successful project
Convienced my wife to ride bicycle with us as a whole family.
It is turning now into operation phase...
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Apr 21, 2018 7:41 PM
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Yeah I didn't want people to have to talk about failed personal projects ;-)
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Apr 21, 2018 7:35 PM
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Sante said "successful"
My successful project
Convienced my wife to ride bicycle with us as a whole family.
It is turning now into operation phase...
Yeah I didn't want people to have to talk about failed personal projects ;-)
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