Day 29: Agile Principle No. 4
Bexs Nelson, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM
PMO & Operations Expert with Measured Results | PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM | I help Customer Service Reps transition to joy in Project Management Careers
Day 29: Agile Principle No. 4
Communication in my opinion is the most critical component of a business. It's how a business gets customers, how it innovates and stays current, its how growth happens.
The same is true in job searches. Agile principles basically mandate that you are communicating with your team (in this case yourself) on a daily basis. So then if it is just Me, Myself, and I, how do we apply the fourth principle of Agile to a Job Search?
Fourth Principle: “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.”
Yep. Doesn't seem to apply. But wait! What if I re-write it to look like this?
Business accumen and technical approaches must work together daily throughout the job search.
Now we got something to think through. Thing is, when it comes to the business side or the technical side, you are stronger in one. You are. We all are. The heart of this principle is to raise the success level of a project by getting insights from both the business and technical sides of an organization. This happens in business only when these two teams work together consistently. But in a job search, you are the team. Both of them.
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There is a fundamental flaw in a job search - you don't have a team to diversify and strategize with. Sure we have life partners and parents, but they are really more stakeholders since most of us don't overlap in fields.
How do we balance this then? First, we acknowledge it. We have to be mindful of our tunnel vision and aptitude to look at things askew by just being one person. The answer for how we circumvent that askewness comes down to the individual from there, but here are a few ideas.
If done with consideration, we can turn a challenge of a single perspective into something that makes us stronger individuals in life as well.
Bexs
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