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Hello Fishes, I am working in TCS as a Project Manager (Non IT banking project). YoE 10+, CCTC 9LPA. Want to get long term onsite opportunity by up-skilling myself. What tech stack should I choose to learn and whether it is possible to get long term onsite for a professional like me.Tata Consultancy
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If you're leading, some thoughts on succeeding.
- Protect your teams' mornings: nothing kills productivity like a morning meeting. No meetings until 9:30 at the earliest, 10am is better. Having mornings to crank out some focused work and plan out the day is huge for your direct reports.
- Keep things stable: worst projects I've ever been on where I can't plan my day let alone my week. Off the cuff emergency meetings are fine when needed, but your team needs dedicated time to execute.
- Daily Standups with the client and team are good, short ones even better: huge waste of time and money is the weekly brief out slide deck and meeting. Don't do it. Following the client + team standup, have a quick internal team standup to level set on action items and priorities.
- Kanban: it just works.
- As few tracking documents as possible: one, simple repository for action items is far better than maintaining 5+ nonsense PM trackers.
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I like starting 30 minutes before my first meeting & just do a list of all the meetings I have for the day, and review high level info for all the ones the day before. Simple 1-2 bullets for each. I also just have post its all over my computer for things I pick up while on calls & then throw them out as things get accomplished. I like to end my day by getting a head start on the list I’d be using the next morning! Good luck! You got this!
Bullet journaling
Take note of all action items, assign owners, and deadlines. Delegating work I feel is half the battle.