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Hello Guys,
I joined Cognizant recently, the project interview calls which I am getting is not from my base location.
I have the location constraint, should I wait for the right opportunity or raise this concern to ADP team so they can look in to it?
As per ADP policy, one should not have any constraints and take the project as FCFS basis.
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Globant is more innovative, and has remote work. I will enter to work with a Sillicon Valley startup based in San Francisco. The tech stack is React, Nextjs, AWS, and a serverless architecture.
JPM is semi remote, and less innovative. The tech stack Java, SpringBoot and AWS. But I'd do more migration tasks, like dockerize projects and pass them to kubernetes. What would you choose?
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A project mgr manages the intimate scope, scale, time, budget of a project or several projects simultaneously from start to finish. Very turn and burn. A program manager manages multiple work streams, efforts, projects that align over time/multiple phases and roll up into roadmaps at a very high level to ensure fiscal outcomes ($$) and alignment to vision mission. A project mgr rarely has direct reports and are ICs and a program mgr may manage a team of project managers or can be an IC based on the org structure.
Helpful perspective, thank you!
How our department uses the two is that I manage the project through launch and as we move into the reinforcement phase (post launch), we transition the project over to a product manager who can manage the reinforcement aspect and then put it into long term maintenance phases - as necessary.
Pretty googleable answer there bud…
Project: manages specific activities for one project
Program: manages the strategy and plans for multiple projects related to an overall program.
I’m a project manager and have been in PMO 6 or so years, a lot of my work I’ve worked directly under a program manager.
It’s kind of like a CEO and President relationship.
CEO/Program Manager: oversees the overall strategy and steers the ship towards completion. Sets the overall plan for execution. With open dialogue with executive stakeholders and removing blockers
President/Project Manager: ensures and manages day to day execution of that plan and manages risks.
A program is a group of projects. Read the pm bok