Abstract
In our PM development programs with mentoring methods, participants of the programs are highly satisfied with the program. At the same time, however, most of the participants express their concerns about their own carrier development as PM. Our observations show that they do not have a clear image of an "ideal PM" and simply perform their tasks with no specific carrier guideline and development target. We believe that these are underlying factors of their concerns. In response to this, we have developed a new mentoring program that uses ideas of carrier management to enable participants to draw clear images as PM, adjust their carrier directions to capabilities required by the company, draw and monitor a plan to achieve their own carrier target. In this paper, we summarize the implementation and the review of our new program and clarify effect and future tasks of the program.
