This past year at work has been pretty crazy. I started this job in January and fell straight into a dual role of site and software project management along with online broadcast production (oh, and account management too) - with the two biggest clients at our company, and by all accounts the most difficult clients. I have been through the grinder with these clients. I am too sensitive at times, and let them in under my skin. Well, I have learned a lot about online media, and of course given that this is primarily a broadcasting company - I have learned a lot about operating under strict timelines. This has been good - all my other jobs have involved projects that existed on floating timelines, geared more to political or organizational weather systems. Here things need to be done to the minute because many of the projects involve live broadcasts.
Well, as the year passed I began to spend more and more of my energies on writing requirements and business analysis documents to support projects and initiatives and then recently I focused on writing technical business proposals. We ended up winning a big contract due in large part to one of my documents. As a result I am getting the opportunity to submit a business case to my boss to change my role around here to become a custom development business analyst/project manager - now that the company is growing and maturing, and standardizing our processes, we are going to need a specialist who can document requirements and solutions and control project scope and definition. And that'll be me (hopefully)!
Let's see how the new year goes, but I'd like to hit my birthday (in June) with my PMP designation. This is the Project Management Professional designation that is will mark me as someone who has both substantial experience in all phases of projects, and who has taken courses and also one who has written a horrible exam to get the designation. I will need to take a series of top-up courses for as long as I am a PMP, so I have to factor this in to my desires - they cost serious money.
Well. Back to projects. Enough chatter. Have a great Christmas holiday all - and enjoy your New Year!
Cheers from Mungo.
