E110 Making an Impact with Project Management featuring Milan Dordevic
In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, PMO Joe welcomed Milan Dordevic for an in-studio discussion. We get to hear Milan share his story and how he began a career in Project Management spanning many countries and industries. Milan and Joe also discussed Leadership, Certifications, Artificial Intelligence and so much more.
Milan is a certified project management expert and leader, author, speaker, and business and technology mentor for high-tech start-ups. His expertise is in complex & remote project and product management, organizational development, and change, all of which he has gained over the course of 15 years. Through dynamic leadership and vision, he is driving business and product innovation, automatization, digitalization, program efficiency, and scaling agility in the organization.
Milan has made a big impact in his career and when asked about how did he do so much so quickly he shared, “I was never afraid of doing some project or taking the project or jumping into something that I didn’t know I was learning by doing. In the meanwhile, every night I was reading about it, I was enrolling myself, currently in parallel with my family.”
When asked about some lessons learned during his experiences Milan shared, “I think the biggest mistake that people, organization do, they read about some methodology, they read about some approach or they hear that one company succeeded because they did it in that way and they want to do the same. So there is one person who succeed. He was doing it the same way and you want to do the same. No, but you are in different industry, you have different products, your story is different. You need to take all those things into consideration and apply to your organization company approach. So you cannot implement. There are probably chances that you will succeed, but there are plenty of approaches, plenty of methodologies, frameworks, and you can select one of them or you can make even better, custom one, select the best from all of them and apply to your organization. Make a custom fit.”
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Milan Dordevic MBA, PMP is a certified project management expert and leader, author, speaker, and business and technology mentor for high-tech start-ups. His expertise is in complex & remote project and product management, organizational development, and change, all of which he has gained over the course of 15 years. Through dynamic leadership and vision, he is driving business and product innovation, automatization, digitalization, program efficiency, and scaling agility in the organization.
Prior to joining Proctorio in the position of Director of Product Development, Milan managed multi-million dollar cutting-edge software development projects in the areas of Cloud computing, Software for Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things, Entertainment, and Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) around the world for largest Fortune 500 companies as BMW, Audi, Samsung, Harman Kardon, Toyota.
As Proctorio starred at the SeedSpot accelerator back in 2013, now Milan is volunteering there as an industry mentor to give back to the community and support new startups in the early and most vulnerable phase.
Recently he started volunteering in the leadership position as Board director and VP of Membership of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Phoenix Chapter as a link to the largest and most diverse international organization in the world dedicated to the profession of project management.
With his Serbian heritage, he is supporting the Serbian community in Arizona. He is volunteering as Board director of Arizona Serbian Business and Professional Network, an organization that serves a community of 20.000+ Arizonians with Serbian heritage.
In May 2022 Milan was recognized and selected for Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives, based on the impact in the area and the depth and diversity of his experience.
Milan Dordevic has an MBA degree from Grand Canyon University, an MSc in Engineering Management from the University of Novi Sad, and a BSc in Organizational Sciences from the University of Belgrade.
Also, Milan has 8 of the most distinguished certifications in the area of Project Management, Product and Software development received from Project Management Institute, International Project Management Association, Scrum Alliance, Scaled AgileAlliance, LeSS etc.
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