The Recipe to Be a Great PM Even While Working on Everest

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If you are reading this article, perhaps you are a Project Manager who has recently started a working career, and you are faced with a mountain of new information, processes and terminology to store and learn, so I want to start this article by telling you right away that I am close to you , and that we have been there, and will go through it, all of us. Today more than ever, flexibility is a fundamental factor: knowing how to work well anywhere and anytime is a skill that is less obvious than you might think, and in some ways a double-edged sword. Undeniably, hybrid work offers countless advantages: being able to work in an ALMOST identical way both in Cernusco sul Naviglio and in the Himalayas was unthinkable until a few decades ago. But how can you orient yourself to get the most out of hybrid formulas? Is all that glitters gold? I will tell you my point of view, starting from the beginning.




How I Became a PM
I became a Project Manager at Digital360 way back in 2022 , so it is from the height of my very long experience that I want to give you some advice on how to navigate this (probably new) adventure. I joined the company immediately after completing my studies with a Master in Marketing Management, so the beginning of my experience at Digital360 also coincides with the actual beginning of my career.


I am sure that there are no jobs that are easy and immediately list of telegram users in denmark understandable at the beginning because, as we all know, the change of mentality from being a student to becoming a worker is abysmal. As I am equally sure that the PM is a role that immediately puts you in front of a quantity of information that at first glance seems truly insurmountable.

I remember well how, as soon as I entered the company, I began a training course on all the various processes, internal and external to the company, which concern 360 degrees the activities that keep a project going. In various situations I found myself following explanations relating to complex flows of time management, different tools, tasks, owners of individual activities to be involved in the creation of the various assets, and then I stopped for a moment and found myself thinking: "but exactly, what is this White Paper?"



It is precisely the memory of that feeling that is the reason why, in my opinion, the only way to come out of it unscathed, or at least seriously injured but alive, is to take things one step at a time .

What great advice you will say, it is obvious! And instead no, it is not as obvious as it seems, because in a world where the question " when should this be done ?" in 99% of cases the answer is " by yesterday ", trying to face things without anxiety and frenzy is not easy. You may feel like you are going perhaps too slow, but in reality it is the best way to really consolidate what you are learning, avoiding finding yourself running, running, running and reaching the finish line forgetting that you started without shoes, and that is when you then feel how much your feet really hurt.

Not to mention the historical period in which we are today, where we are faced with a huge variable, namely that of hybrid work ; and here we return to the beginning: is hybrid work a good or bad thing for a Project Manager?