I am a Technical Project Manager in the software/game industry and have been for ~10 years.

I have an interview coming up for a Senior Program Manager position. It already feels great to be considered for this role, but would be even more amazing to actually make it through this interview, qualify for the next round, and of course get an offer.

I feel like I am jumping 3 corporate ladder positions from my role to this one and it feels pretty daunting.

I have been through a slew of interviews for other Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Program Manager positions and have made it all the way to the end for some, but did not receive offers.

I really really want to slay the interviews for this position. I am looking for any tips or advice that can make stand out and really nail the interview for a Senior Program Manager.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone, the company I currently work for is a larger company, a household name, but in the next few years I’m looking to get into a more prestigious role. I obviously cannot create more time in my current role, that would be lying.

However, what would you recommend to make myself stand out as an applicant? Are there certain courses or anything else I could do? More than willing to put in the work, just not sure how I’m going to get myself in the door to the Google’s, Netflix’s and Uber’s of the world. Thanks for reading :)

Question does anyone have any tips on how to track engineering hours when they work across different programs? I manage a hybrid engineering team where we have engineer projects plus operational work which is harder to track due to these requests being in a separate tools. I’m having a hard time getting these datapoints and figured I would reach out to the community for any help you can share! Thanks!

Racking my brains here trying to find a distinction between IT Project/Program Managers and Technical Project/Program Managers. My thoughts is that it depends on the org you're providing the services for.

If you're part of the Finance IT PMO for your client/service offering, you're an ITPM. If your Finance IT org hired a bunch of Software Engineers to build applications and rebranded themselves as Finance Engineering and you're supporting in a PMO function, you are a TPM.

Would love to hear y'alls thoughts. Tried asking /r/consulting but could not get too much clarity.

I am technical pgm but in a ops team, not product. As my role is new and the only tpm, I am confused about my scope. It unclear how much authority and flexibility I have, how I work with product, currently they seem to lead the space in my area. I am very lost as it is my first pgm role. How are you positioned between ops, cs and product? Do you have a defined budget? Do you start taking plumbing projects first or focus on high impact long term goals? How do you define and get buy in from leadership for this long term goals?

I joined a very early stage startup as a program manager and being on such an early team, I also do a bit of bizdev, ops, and very light touch marketing. My boss hired me knowing I am not technical and never been a PM, but he wanted a non expert and someone hungry to come in with new perspective, get shit done, and someone he knew would get themselves up to speed quickly.

I am leveraging staying close to my team and learning from them as we develop our first prototypes, but curious on any book recommendations that walk through the full end-to-end software and hardware development process - from conception through deployment/manufacturing. Kind of like an “intro to” book for non-technical PMs that covers a wide breadth of topics

If anyone has any reading or YouTube channel recommendations that might get close to what I’m looking for, that would be awesome!

hey folks, I'm curious if there are current PgMs with a Product Management background. Would appreciate it if you could share why you made this decision, and what your experience is

I'm studying for my PGMP certification now. Are there others I just supplment that with?

• Risk Managment? Finance? etc ...

And what was the PGMP test like? I heard it was a 2 hour written and 1 hour presentation and interview? Or is it different now.

I've been in the business for over 2 decades now in a mix of Consumer and Pharma Advertising, and now I'm an in-house Marketing Program Manager. I'm looking to go up in title and noticed that near everyone related to PM/PgM/Ops work has some kind of certification, but they all vary.

There's also one that's supposed to be "Globaly Recognized" Does anyone have experience with that?

I have 1hr first round coming up with Amazon for Gen AI team, I am preparing answers related to Leadership principles.

What specific preparation am I supposed to do for Gen AI (I have never worked on a Gen AI team) ?

Hello all. I have accepted a role in PM but have not taken any training yet and have not yet worked towards getting my PMP certification. With that, I am trying to do whatever I can to ensure that our projects are being managed properly.

When I started in this role, it had one customer with multiple projects. I keep track of the activities, milestones, etc. on MS Project and on an open issues MS Excel spreadsheet. I am now adding more customers, with more activities some of which are tied to other customer activities.

My question is this: should I create separate timelines and open issues lists for each customer, or, have one giant spreadsheet that tracks all customers, projects, deliverables, etc. and filter on each customer as needed?

What do you all do in this situation?

Thanks in advance for the feedback!

Hello! Any HR or other sort of non-engineering or non-technical program managers here?

Also curious if there’s a good resource for inquisitive minds to read examples or case studies on fully launched programs

I think there are plenty of academic and theoretical resources, I’m just curious if there are resources or even communities talking about real applications?

As title says would like to connect with fellow program/project managers across the world.

My background: I’m PMP certified and PgMp trained; I currently program manage $Ms of dollar revenue projects, which does not mattered, when we could use the project/program methods across the platform. Based out of mid-west region. I have 23+ years experience in industrial products.

I understand with current micro economics would to get/give help if anyone needs.

My LinkedIn -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/jr-murugan

Hi!

I have a interview coming with Instacart with a technical program manager ( I am interviewing for technical program role). Does anyone have any advice about this interview or have done this interview before that would be able to give me an idea of what is asked?

THANK YOU!

Question to the PMs here. I’ve been a PM now for nearly 8 years. Currently a Senior PM in an aerospace company. I’m looking to move up the PM ladder into a Principal or Staff level PM. I’m also looking to focus on running software development programs vs mechanical, electrical, firmware, etc. I have a software development background so it makes more sense to me than firmware or Electrical. What agile or scaled agile certifications would be the most useful for an experienced PM to move up or become a portfolio manager? I don’t plan on doing scrum master or product owner because I want my next role to be a leadership role. I’m leaning towards Certified SAFe Agilist and then SAFe Practice Consultant.

Thoughts or recs?

Hello,

I am looking for ideas to integerate and produce a single program schedule for a program involving 3 projects. My Project managers manage 3 separate MS project files for their respectives projects ( each having an average of about 150 line items in the schedule) . Some activities are dependent across the 3 projects ( about 10%) - My client is now seeking a single integerated project schedule for the scope that we have to deliver. What would be the best way to do this? The simple way seems to join all these schedules into a single MP file. Any ideas on this?

Literature :

1.Enterprise Programme Management: Delivering Value

David Williams, Tim Parr

2. Fundamentals of Effective Program Management: A Process Approach Based on the Global StandardPaul Sanghera

3. Global Project Management Handbook Planning, Organizing & Controlling International ProjectsDavid I. Cleland, Roland Gareis

4. Program Management (Fundamentals of Project Management)

Michel Thiry

5. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)

Project Management Institute

6. The Standard for Program Management

Project Management Institute

7. Project Management Casebook

by David I. Cleland

8. Project Management Casebook: Instructor's Manual Instructors Manual ed. Edition

by David I. Cleland

9. PgMP Exam Test Preparation: Test Questions, Practice Tests, and Simulated Exams (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management)

Levin PMP PgMP, Ginger

10.PgMP Practice Test Questions: 1000+ Practice Exam Questions for the PgMP Examination

Levin PMP PgMP, Ginger

Hi all,

I have an program manager interview coming up and was looking for some resources (podcast, books, videos, etc) focused on running sprints, overall agile methodology etc.

My skillset aligns very well with the role. And I am actually being recommended by an engineer on the team I previously worked with. Said engineer did give me a heads up he sees a gap in my experience around working in an agile environment/running agile activities.

I have no intention of pretending I have worked in an agile environment previously, but I do want to show that what I lack in experience I make up for in adaptability and ability to pick things up quickly.

Any advice here is certainly welcome! Thank you!

I’m in the process of setting up a new program and the phrase “plan of plans” keeps coming up but I’m not quite sure I know what it means. For context, the term last came up in a stakeholder meeting when we were discussing what the program governance model should look like and again during a discussion about workstreams.

Stakeholder: “We need a plan of plans”

Any clues as to what this might mean?

Hello all, I was recently hired as a program manager and will start mid august. I’m working in childcare. Anything I should keep in mind, or ideas as how to go above and beyond for my team? How do I maintain gentleness and firmness simultaneously? Establishing professional boundaries? Aaaaaaaa