Esta tarde me examiné en el prometric center de la universidad europea de madrid para obtener mi certificación PMP Project Management Professional de Project Management Institute. Muchos nervios y mucha preparación sobre todo, casí un año y pico. Examen superado ya soy PMP. Qué voy a hacer ahora?!

Not all companies are prepared for project-driven methodology so you’d better stop thinking that hiring a 120 €/hour consultant will magically convert a traditionally CMMI level 1 company into a successful Project Management Office. Your lower echelons will have to make significant often painful changes in ways they used to do things, moreover executive management will also have to do the homework. Management looses direct control allowing decisions to be made at lower levels. For the project team the change will be considerable but for you – Mr. Executive it will be far greater than you expected. 

For the last 5 years I’ve been managing projects with offshore production teams located mostly in eastern Europe. A PM must cope not only with every day difficulties and usual schedule problems in projects but focus on cultural and communication difficulties native to multicultural and multietnical teams. A PM’s job is about some 90% of communication and 10% technical knowledge, so the soft skills are the ultimate secret weapon you must have in your toolbox, especially if you are dealing with globally distributed project teams.