If you happen to know what SRE is, you might be wondering how it relates to DevOps. Well, let’s not beat around the bush. There’s no “versus”—there’s only a different approach for how to deliver better software faster.
Freelance has tons of advantages: from avoiding long-distance commuting to setting your own hours. Even so being a freelance project manager is definitely not the easiest career path to follow.
To a project manager entrenched in corporate politics and organizational red tape, the idea of striking out on your own as an independent project management consultant might sound like a dream. You choose your own clients, you set your own pay, and you can stop jumping through so many hoops. But how do you know if you’re ready, or if you have what it takes to be successful? Do you know how to start a project management business? And how do you go from wanting to be a consultant to actually being one?
Project Management as a Service, PMaaS for short, is not a new concept. Over the past few years, we have seen the market shift from pure products-based companies to an influx of services-based companies. Market players responded. Picking one industry as an example, Automakers transitioned their positioning from selling cars to selling mobility or transportation as a service. Project Management, even though already considered part of the services landscape, was not left untouched.
medium.com Project Managers face daily challenges, and for career consultants, there’s one hurdle that requires greater effort to overcome: having the responsibility, but not authority. A project management consultant will eventually create a plan to navigate these waters and successfully align with authority; even so, this topic can be viewed as an ongoing problem. Of…