Welcome to Random Acts of IT PM!
Posted by iammarchhare on 20 March 2009
This blog is dedicated to project management, particularly IT project management. Here I would like to share the successes and blunders of the wild world known as IT project management.
I am an IT PM with 9 years of experience. I have worked full-time in IT for 13 years. I started out studying a lot on my own, writing text adventure games and such.
After 11 years in the Army, they were paying people to get out, so I went out and got my BS in Systems Analysis. While at school, I did some freelance programming, ran a BBS and worked part-time in a computer lab. At the computer lab, I learned about Novell and AppleTalk networking. I was Sr Tech by the time I graduated.
Since I was already doing networking and PC support, I landed a job doing Desktop support for a while on contract with BP Oil. I got tired of that gig, and I wanted to get back into writing code, so I got another contract job doing just that. They liked my work, so I got hired on full-time as a project lead. After about 6–8 months, I got promoted to project manager.
Unfortunately, in some of my experience, project management was more of an after-thought. Mind you, I don’t mean that no one managed it, but no one formally trained in project management oversaw it. Project management was done by the “seat of your pants”.
I have some articles published on Helium, a writer’s website, about project management and other areas of interest as well. However, I decided to start a blog because it gives me a little more freedom. I may cross-publish some posts, but undoubtedly not all of them. Besides, this gives me a chance to test drive WordPress, and what PM can resist a shiny new toy?
