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I am working for a Fortune 50 telecommunications company, working as a ScrumMaster, Project Manager, and Business Analyst, which is not the healthiest combination but due to resource limitations, I need to wear a lot of hats. On a good note, we are using Agile and Scrum to implement an enhancement to the retail web…

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I have now been the Director of the Program/Project Management Solutions practice for a smaller, “boutique” consulting firm for the past 5 months. Our primary client is a Fortune 50 telecommunication company, which operates like many smaller independent companies under a corporate umbrella. Each group does things differently here. One group is entirely Agile and…

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My client is now a major pharmaceutical company. This project is a bit of a pain because I have to take a taxi to the train station, followed by a three hour train ride, and another 30 minute taxi ride just to get to the client once a week. I am directing an overall portfolio…

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I am now working for a major bank. This bank doesn’t have any branches, and does a majority of their products and services online. The projects I am managing are very data-driven, and many of them pertain to online marketing campaigns (which makes sense, since the Chief Operating Officer reports to the Chief Marketing Officer…

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I’m now working for a company that provides geographic information systems data and makes maps used by a lot of technical devices for navigation. This technology is highly data intensive. My backend (database) skills are definitely being used in this environment. With each new job position, where I am brought on as a project or…

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I think we’ve definitely sold our company as a whole on Agile and Scrum. We’ve been tracking the metrics of our projects, including the number of releases accepted by the client, the number of test cases executed/passed/failed, the number of defects that our team finds prior to release versus the number of defects found post-release,…

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We’re doing some interesting projects for a number of telecom companies. Basically, the company I work for specializes in Video On Demand technology. If you’ve ever turned your cable box on and saw the nice navigable menus, my current company designs that interface. I convinced the Director of our group that we should be using…

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Well, I’m now working for a company in the telecom industry. I do have to say that I learned a lot from my previous boss at my old company. I’ve got some great templates, I’m now very experienced in doing assessments (and I can easily modify the assessment approach towards any type of assessment), and…

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I’ve worked at this compensation consulting company for the past two years. Our projects are typically assessments – we do some pre-assessment planning and send documentation to the client to fill out, then travel to the client site and stay there for two or three days while we interview everyone from the CEO to the…

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