Nana joined The Eddie System almost a year ago, when the community was still a handful of people. He already had project management experience, but all of it came from a single organization, and he was not confident those skills would carry anywhere else. In this interview he explains what actually changed.
He walks through the three weeks he spent hesitating before booking his first live PMO kickoff call, what it felt like to present his project to people he had never met, the ServiceNow challenge he lost because he made a decision on emotion instead of his charter, and the day he landed a NOC role at work and realized he had already run that exact project in a simulation. He is also honest about the parts that were hard, including doing the work at night with two kids under three.
In this video, we cover:
- Why certification knowledge was not the thing holding him back
- What it took to book and survive his first live PMO presentation
- What presenting and defending a project teaches that watching videos cannot
- The ServiceNow challenge he lost, and the decision that cost him the leaderboard
- How the simulation work translated directly into his current role
- Who he thinks this is for, and who it is not for
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