Project Management Is Important For Any Growing Business With Anar Umurzakova
Anar Umurzakova is the Founder of Go Project Management. Originally a Presidential Scholar of Kazakhstan, Anar honed her craft in project management in organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and is now committed to helping startups find that 20% of work that will bring them 80% of their success.
Join us today as Anar shares about the importance of your reputation, the reason why it is crucial for companies who are scaling to adopt proper project management frameworks, and the benefits of the AGILE framework.
P.S. Anar is also a talented singer with her own Soundcloud page! Ask her about it!
Resources
http://www.goprojectmanagement.com/ – Work with Anar at Go Project Management!
Key Actionable Advice
1. Your reputation follows you everywhere. Make sure you protect it.
2. Project management frameworks are crucial for any scaling business. The sooner you implement it, the sooner you can efficiently run your projects and align it with your strategy.
3. The AGILE framework runs on the principles of short cycles to allow you to quickly roll out features, to test them and to get feedback. Consider implementing this if you are looking your company is growing quickly and wants to be able to manage projects quickly.
Show Notes
[3.00] Anar was originally from Kazakhstan. As a freshman in the University of Kazakhstan, she won the Presidential Scholarship which allowed her to study in the United States. Anar eventually worked back home in Kazakhstan and London (with Accenture) before she eventually returned to the United States.
[7.10] Anar has over 14 years of experience in project management. Anar honed her craft working in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. She also picked up the importance of treating people well to retain talent and that your reputation is important because it travels from firm to firm.
[11.20] Anar is the Founder of Go Project Management which provides career coaching for project managers and helping small business to implement a project management structure with a specific focus on marketing.
[13.40] Anar explains what exactly is project management and why it is important for a company’s growth.
[15.25] The AGILE method is now an industry standard today and it is an excellent framework for rolling out and testing new features and pivoting.
[16.10] Anar works through the AGILE and Waterfall framework and the pros and cons of both. The main flaw of the Waterfall framework is that it takes such a longrun way to plan the project before it is finally tested and this is increasing inappropriate for IT companies and startups. AGILE allows new features and softwares to launch and to be tested and to see results faster.
[18.40] AGILE has much shorter cycles (i.e. scrumb) cycles making it faster and it also allows you to make better decisions.
[25.00] Anar shares how she helped a previous client implement a project management framework to retain historical data so that the company’s precedents and processes are retained whenever an individual leaves the company.
[31.00] Anar shares about her podcast the Open School of Business.
[This transcript has been automatically generated by a digital software and will therefore contain errors and typos. Please kindly take note of this and only rely on the digital transcript for reference.]
Project Management Is Important For Any Growing Business With Anar Umurzakova
Anar Umurzakova is the Founder of Go Project Management. Originally a Presidential Scholar of Kazakhstan, Anar honed her craft in project management in organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and is now committed to helping startups find that 20% of work that will bring them 80% of their success.
Join us today as Anar shares about the importance of your reputation, the reason why it is crucial for companies who are scaling to adopt proper project management frameworks, and the benefits of the AGILE framework.
P.S. Anar is also a talented singer with her own Soundcloud page! Ask her about it!
Resources
http://www.goprojectmanagement.com/ – Work with Anar at Go Project Management!
Key Actionable Advice
1. Your reputation follows you everywhere. Make sure you protect it.
2. Project management frameworks are crucial for any scaling business. The sooner you implement it, the sooner you can efficiently run your projects and align it with your strategy.
3. The AGILE framework runs on the principles of short cycles to allow you to quickly roll out features, to test them and to get feedback. Consider implementing this if you are looking your company is growing quickly and wants to be able to manage projects quickly.
Show Notes
[3.00] Anar was originally from Kazakhstan. As a freshman in the University of Kazakhstan, she won the Presidential Scholarship which allowed her to study in the United States. Anar eventually worked back home in Kazakhstan and London (with Accenture) before she eventually returned to the United States.
[7.10] Anar has over 14 years of experience in project management. Anar honed her craft working in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. She also picked up the importance of treating people well to retain talent and that your reputation is important because it travels from firm to firm.
[11.20] Anar is the Founder of Go Project Management which provides career coaching for project managers and helping small business to implement a project management structure with a specific focus on marketing.
[13.40] Anar explains what exactly is project management and why it is important for a company’s growth.
[15.25] The AGILE method is now an industry standard today and it is an excellent framework for rolling out and testing new features and pivoting.
[16.10] Anar works through the AGILE and Waterfall framework and the pros and cons of both. The main flaw of the Waterfall framework is that it takes such a longrun way to plan the project before it is finally tested and this is increasing inappropriate for IT companies and startups. AGILE allows new features and softwares to launch and to be tested and to see results faster.
[18.40] AGILE has much shorter cycles (i.e. scrumb) cycles making it faster and it also allows you to make better decisions.
[25.00] Anar shares how she helped a previous client implement a project management framework to retain historical data so that the company’s precedents and processes are retained whenever an individual leaves the company.
[31.00] Anar shares about her podcast the Open School of Business.
[This transcript has been automatically generated by a digital software and will therefore contain errors and typos. Please kindly take note of this and only rely on the digital transcript for reference.]