I'm being staffed on a lot of tech implementation PMO, and I feel like I contribute some value to the project but I'm not building up career skills so much as I'm being a human network router for a bunch of different people. What skills can I spend this time consciously developing that will make a real difference in my career long term? Agile/SCRUM knowledge? Communication/people skills?

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Lean the nuances about the tech platforms you are implementing. Become the go-to person about a specific one or a group will help you in operational strategy work

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Thank you!

Agile and Scrum have their uses, and its fairly easy to learn.

But I would spend time truly understanding what it is you are doing PMO for.

What does the tech do? What are the upstreams and down streams that need to be taken into consideration? How does the necessary data interact with one another. What are the test, development and production instances? What are the best practices around managing those? Etc.

You don't need to be an expert in everything, but you need to be able to understand and speak to every single step in the chain.

Once you learn that, you'll realize you have a skill no one has and that's knowing exactly whats going on.

When you are at that point the job gets easy, you make the analyst schedule the meetings, hunt people down for deliverables, and send the emails. And all you do is basically act like the orchestra manager.

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These are good insights... Would love to know more about transitioning into a Product Owner / Manager role

PMO is one of the most valuable and versatile skills. You can take that anywhere. Sexy? No. Utility? Yes. Everyone could do with more organization in their project

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Be humble and understanding towards the people on the project with actual / hard tech skills. There is nothing worse than having an ignorant PMO resource who does not comprehend the intricacies and dependencies of designing and implementing technology.

Establishing rapport with the team as a non-technical PMO resource is a skill that will serve you well into the future.

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100% agree with this. Make your technical/functional leads' lives easier by clearing the obstacles in their way and they will respect you more.

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