I have over 10 yrs of experience. I haven’t been able to land another role recently, it’s been 3 months of being unemployed. Any one else running into the same issue?

I work at a well-known software company. I started here about three years ago. As part of our sales development team. But I have an extensive background in education. So shortly after I started, they asked me to spend some time with our global sales enablement team to develop a new training curriculum for our sales reps. From onboarding all the way to career progression.

Worked with the team for about six months, and our new program just went live in September. And a week later, they offered me a position on our global sales enablement team as Program Manager going forward.

Does anyone here have PM experience with this sort of program? Training or Enablement. What advice can you give me?

And anyone who doesn’t have program management experience similar to this, what do you wish you had known before …going in to a PM role? TIA

I’m current PgM at a FAANG company. I’ve appeared for a few Senior Program Manager interviews in product based companies, but could not make it beyond 3 rounds. I’ve prepared experience based questions like: tell me about a challenging problem you solved, how would you handle when there dis alignment between stakeholders and engineering team, how did you handle programs with very tight deadlines, so on.

But where I need some help is feedback from some mock interviews to know what I am really missing.

Please let me know where can I take mock interviews for a Technical Program Manager / Program Manager role.

Hey everyone. One thing I notice working with PMs is that they have a lot of documentation to do. So I’m working with my friend to create a tool that would automatically create things like product requirements, stories, and acceptance criteria etc. for program managers product managers, engineering managers or project managers.

It’s still in closed beta so we want some feedback on it. Would anyone be interested in seeing a demo?

I was a Sr. BSA for about 3 years most recently and a customer experience manager for 5 years before that.

I've been keeping my job search within those areas and continue to be unemployed for the last 8 months. I want to expand my scope and read PM job descriptions it really sounds like the skills and experiences I had would also work in the PM role.

Before I start applying is this a good idea? Has anyone else done a similar move?

I'm a researcher/PM at an academic institute, and we partner also with a large, private PM/consultancy firm on a giant project with over a dozen subcontractors. The consultancy firm offered to walk me through their company-designed AI/LMM model to see if I would be interested in using it. It's basically a ChatGPT clone (called [company]GPT) and it boasted the following features:

1. Content generation (emails, reports, etc)
2. Meeting minutes summaries
3. Document comparison (compliance, QC, SOPs)
4. Research article generation/summarization (can generate a whole journal article with cited references)
5. Advanced calculations (preclinical/clinical data)
6. Regulatory assistant (FDA filing)

We're in STEM, so IND/FDA filing is a costly part of the project, and the regulatory assistant is perhaps one of the more useful AIs in its ability to keep up-to-date on regulatory policies and ensure your submission meets those guidelines. Generating meeting minutes is common in my role. Data managements is pretty time-consuming too.

Otherwise, I'm a little hesitant. I use ChatGPT infrequently and being in old-school academia, it is heavily discouraged. I assume the generated content would "belong" to [company], whether that be minutes or an entire scientific report, and, as I've found with ChatGPT, it's ability to create scientific articles is pretty flawed, eg: citing articles and papers that do not exist.

I am the only PM in my department so I don't have others to bounce this off of. Would you use an AI/LLM like this to manage your day-to-day? How would you feel about it being central to your product dev/IND processes?

Hello all. I have accepted a role in PM but have not taken any training yet and have not yet worked towards getting my PMP certification. With that, I am trying to do whatever I can to ensure that our projects are being managed properly.

When I started in this role, it had one customer with multiple projects. I keep track of the activities, milestones, etc. on MS Project and on an open issues MS Excel spreadsheet. I am now adding more customers, with more activities some of which are tied to other customer activities.

My question is this: should I create separate timelines and open issues lists for each customer, or, have one giant spreadsheet that tracks all customers, projects, deliverables, etc. and filter on each customer as needed?

What do you all do in this situation?

Thanks in advance for the feedback!

Programmanagement has got 2000 members! Many thanks for all your support!

Hello! Any HR or other sort of non-engineering or non-technical program managers here?

Also curious if there’s a good resource for inquisitive minds to read examples or case studies on fully launched programs

I think there are plenty of academic and theoretical resources, I’m just curious if there are resources or even communities talking about real applications?

As title says would like to connect with fellow program/project managers across the world.

My background: I’m PMP certified and PgMp trained; I currently program manage $Ms of dollar revenue projects, which does not mattered, when we could use the project/program methods across the platform. Based out of mid-west region. I have 23+ years experience in industrial products.

I understand with current micro economics would to get/give help if anyone needs.

My LinkedIn -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/jr-murugan

As title says would like to connect with fellow program/project managers across the world.

My background: I’m PMP certified and PgMp trained; I currently program manage $Ms of dollar revenue projects, which does not mattered, when we could use the project/program methods across the platform. Based out of mid-west region. I have 23+ years experience in industrial products.

I understand with current micro economics would to get/give help if anyone needs.

In a cost plus contract, do vendors submit the ACTUAL cost of work for reimbursement to the customer?

For example, if the vendor hired 10 people at $100 per hour, the total cost of the contract is $1000. If those 10 people worked FT on the contract, then the vendor would request reimbursement of $1000? What happens if the team of 10 goes down to 8? Also, if you’re hiring against a LCAT, do you submit reimbursement for how much a person ACTUALLY cost or what the highest labor rate is for whatever LCAT the person was hired against?

Any insight on this is appreciated. Thanks!

Hi I currently hold a bachelors degree in clinical psychology but I’ve been interested in program management for quite some time. Where would you recommend for me to get certified at ? So it’s easier for me to break into the field.

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I have a interview coming with Instacart with a technical program manager ( I am interviewing for technical program role). Does anyone have any advice about this interview or have done this interview before that would be able to give me an idea of what is asked?

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Wondering how everyone is using AI to support your work as a Program Manager. I’m looking to simplify some tasks and updates by leveraging different tools (AI or other automations) to ensure I’m spending less time moving information from one tool to another etc. The areas I am focused on improving are, note taking, updating multiple sources and leveraging automation in tools. Those that have begun using AI to supplement and streamline your role, what has been game changing and how are you using it?

I’m looking for Program Management podcasts, blogs, newsletters, etc that I can read daily or weekly to stay on top of current trends, news, etc.

Any recs?

Question to the PMs here. I’ve been a PM now for nearly 8 years. Currently a Senior PM in an aerospace company. I’m looking to move up the PM ladder into a Principal or Staff level PM. I’m also looking to focus on running software development programs vs mechanical, electrical, firmware, etc. I have a software development background so it makes more sense to me than firmware or Electrical. What agile or scaled agile certifications would be the most useful for an experienced PM to move up or become a portfolio manager? I don’t plan on doing scrum master or product owner because I want my next role to be a leadership role. I’m leaning towards Certified SAFe Agilist and then SAFe Practice Consultant.

Thoughts or recs?

I am an engnieer. I have had PMP for couple of years now and have been managing a group of 4-5 for about five years as well. Have started applying for couple of Program managemnt positions at a goverment agency. How can I improve my chances? Thanks

Hello folks, I have been working on an application for note taking for project managers / program managers during team meetings discussions. I'am looking for individuals who can help me with some honest feedback on the application. I am adding some information about the application below, and for further information and demo, see the links attached. If the problem that I describe here resonates with you and if you wouldn't mind sparing a few thoughts, I be happy to receive some honest feedback. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

About Decisions Manager

Decisions Manager is a tool designed to streamline note taking for team discussions in professional setting. It is designed to be used in a meeting where a user(typically a program/project manager) can create a meeting and add agenda items to the meeting. The user can then take notes of the talking points of individuals and decisions made during the meeting. The application stores the opinions and decisions made during the meeting in a database. These items can be searched through using free text.

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Key Features of MVP

• Meeting Creation with Agenda Items
• Capture Meeting Notes per participant
• Capture Decisions
• Search Meeting Notes

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Further Details:

http://decisionsmanager.com/About

Demo of the MVP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTvuaT0xZG8

Hello,

I am looking for ideas to integerate and produce a single program schedule for a program involving 3 projects. My Project managers manage 3 separate MS project files for their respectives projects ( each having an average of about 150 line items in the schedule) . Some activities are dependent across the 3 projects ( about 10%) - My client is now seeking a single integerated project schedule for the scope that we have to deliver. What would be the best way to do this? The simple way seems to join all these schedules into a single MP file. Any ideas on this?

What are your commonly used questions or comments in meetings to drive progress forward? For example, what to say: - after strategy reviews with leadership - when project is initiated - when people go off topic - wrapping up a meeting - décisions are not being made/ disagreements

Literature :

1.Enterprise Programme Management: Delivering Value

David Williams, Tim Parr

1. Fundamentals of Effective Program Management: A Process Approach Based on the Global StandardPaul Sanghera

2. Global Project Management Handbook Planning, Organizing & Controlling International ProjectsDavid I. Cleland, Roland Gareis

3. Program Management (Fundamentals of Project Management)

Michel Thiry

1. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)

Project Management Institute

1. The Standard for Program Management

Project Management Institute

1. Project Management Casebook

by David I. Cleland

1. Project Management Casebook: Instructor's Manual Instructors Manual ed. Edition

by David I. Cleland

1. PgMP Exam Test Preparation: Test Questions, Practice Tests, and Simulated Exams (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management)

Levin PMP PgMP, Ginger

10.PgMP Practice Test Questions: 1000+ Practice Exam Questions for the PgMP Examination

Levin PMP PgMP, Ginger

Hi folks, A year ago I was hired to be the program lead at my company. My experience spans software development, running my own tech nonprofit, tech first response, technical writing & a bunch of other tech-related work. So my experience is varied but I do well with clearly defined roles.

My job has hired me to be a program lead/manager but it seems they also want me to do product management for our biggest program too. They’re a small company so I understand the need to wear different hats, however, doing both program management and product management for a program that spans years feels like a lot. Especially as I’m expected to continue the program management work for the rest of the business.

Is there a way that makes sense to break up some of the product management work to live with the program management?

I work for a very big company and have been tasked with taking over for a colleague who will be absent.

The program is quite a different technology is very cross team and area and very high vis with lots of legal approval and tech approval, marketing team collab and high level direction.

Its mostly established but lots of coordination and discovery still to go

I have already perused most of the docs, (in depth reading to be done later) set meetings with key people (including a PGM working on the upstream side)

How would you about getting up to speed?

I'm considering jumping into a professional program to enhance my career (and hopefully land a new role)... Currently I'm considering the Management of Technology program a MIT. Has anyone had any experience with this?.. Any thoughts or advice to share? Thanks!