The Project Manager Who Could

1. evaluate the success of your internship. Overall I think my internship was a success.  It took a bit of a turn with the fact that I left my position and started the next journey of my career in the middle of it.  However, overall while I was working on my projects that I was reporting in my weekly updates I was working at a high level.  I closed out 2 of the 3 projects that I originally reported on.  2. reflect on what was most effective and what was most challenging. The most challenging part of my internship was changing jobs.  Handing off projects is something that I don't enjoy as you are trying to explain 6 months of work and understanding in about 30 minutes and no matter how well you think you did something always gets missed.

What is the one thing you would strive to improve upon? Being a project manager one of the most important things you can do is learn the art of not only doing the things that take less than 2 minutes immediately so they don't get lost but prioritizing what work needs to be done first, and the ability to constantly re-evaluate on the spot to ensure nothing is getting lost. There are days that I am great at doing the things that take less than 2 minutes immediately but I am not constant with it.  I want to challenge my self to be on the higher level of this one because where I find myself dropping balls all the time is for those items that I could have just taken care of but I didn't.   Also, prioritizing is huge with project management so you don't get behind on projects.  Learning the business needs and why some actions are more important than others is something that I am always working on.   

Write a journal entry that addresses these points: two weeks ago, your journal prompt laid out a professional networking strategy with some immediate tasks; discuss what progress have you made on them. Over the past few weeks I have actually worked hard to expand my professional networking.  I think that I have done a pretty good job at it considering through my networking I was able to meet with an IT corporate  recruiter and within a week I was offered the position with a new company that I am moving in to starting next week. It wasn't easy. I put myself out there on LinkedIn stating that I was looking for a new opportunity and was open to conversations.  Sadly, when you are having moments like those you are going to have to be open, transparent and honest about yourself and your situation to get anyone invested in helping you reach the next level of your goals. But in the end, it was worth it.  I will continue to put myself out there ad have those c...

 This week was bitter sweet.  I only worked until Wednesday as it was my last day with my current company.  I will be starting with a new company as an IT Agile Project Manager on 05/31. I opted to begin looking for a new position as my current position allowed no room for growth, pay increase or much of a work life balance.  I was finding it hard to accomplish anything other than working.  I am very excited about the next steps for my future. I spend the time I was working this week setting my fellow project manager who will be taking over my position feel that they were in a place of success.  It's never easy to jump in to somonelses shoes and take of their project so I wanted to make sure there was little to no waves as I stepped out of my role and handed it over to them. My next post next week will be about the on-boarding process with my new company.

 I'm not 100% sure what to write about his week as there were no instructions...so I'll just add a picture of that!

 Hours Worked: 40 This week was an odd week.   Since I put my 2 weeks notice in to work I have been taking off all of my projects.  I am in the process of documenting all process that I am in charge off and at this point am only still here for answering questions if the PMs that I have handed my projects too if they have questions. My official last day is 05/25/2022. I start my new job on 05/31/2022.

What is your professional networking strategy? This is a hard topic to discuss as I have worked at home for over 10 years.  I think for me the best way that I am able to network is on LinkedIn.  I have grown a network over the past 10 years with the different positions that I have held and companies that I have worked for.   However, this has seemed to work really well for me over the years.  When I have found myself needing or wanting to look for a new job or career move I've been able to reach out to my network and find opportunities that might not have been available for me. Also, I have found that the network I built on LinkedIn is great to go to work career advise and etc. 

 Weekly Progress Report - Week 6 Worked 40 hours I focused this week on the Data Center Consolidation project.  We having been doing upgrades to our network in order for it to be ready for clients to connect too.  Honestly, my biggest part has been leading meetings in the middle of the night. There has been good progression on all activities, but nothing much for me to do other than listen and then update the project plan.

Document internship accomplishments and present the value of these activities and accomplishments. I have been sitting here for a few hours to figure out how to answer this or document this.  Problem is thus far in my internship I've had no significant accomplishments.  The projects that I am working on are not going great and we are having to work daily to keep the boat afloat.  In about three weeks this should be an easier post to write however, I just had to take a week of to recover from the term-oil of the turbulent projects that I've been working on.

I was on PTO this week. I took a much need 40 hours of brain downtime before all of our big activities for the ramp season kick off.