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I've been working as a Product Manager / Scrum Master / Project Manager for the past 5 years after transitioning from a developer role.
I always gravitated towards the "team lead" (basic organisation/planning) role within the teams I worked with. However after taking a step away from being in the team to outside it I've never really enjoyed my work. So, I decided to take a break and do something different before trying to find another opportunity where I could work in the team again.
Unfortunately, despite things looking promising, I'm now not going to be able to travel to Vietnam as I'd planned to until January (covid). So, I'm looking for a short term role in the meantime.
I haven't written any code for the past few years (I found it made it harder for me to give the team space to find solutions) but have been brushing up with Laravel and python tutorials for the past few weeks.
I can find lots of 12 month contracts for senior developers, but nothing short-term for junior or mid-level roles. Does such a thing even exist?
Having not had my hands/mind the game for so long I don't feel confident looking (or applying for) the roles I'm seeing. I could probably find another hands-off project manager role but I really want to be working within a team again as an individual contributor with my own tasks, responsibilities and things I can accomplish myself. Preferably I'd also like to be working on established products, having worked in e-commerce agencies I definitely prefer helping build a product to setting up magento instances.
One of the things I find difficult about managing software projects is resk managment and enabling teams and "leaders" to make good, informed decisions by appropriately understanding risks and making choices about how they are mitigated. It's easy to find losts of lists of things you "must" do, but I'm struggling to find a list of potential risks that they mitigate.
Anyone have one or advice on how they manage risk within their organisations?
Specifically I'm thinking of something which is well structred and can be used by new team members as a one-stop-shop for information about a product which would encompase design decisions, risk and the output of multiple projects.
What tools do you use and do you have any examples?