Organizational change and transformation efforts are often challenging.  Most fail to meet their planned objectives with 30% failing outright.  In my last article, ”Road Trippin’ Organizational Change: The Beginning”, I recommending using adaptive-agile planning practices and treating the effort like a road trip: Set the direction, not the destination.  Set high-level goals and the strategic […]

Most organizational change efforts do not succeed.  They fail to achieve the desired results.  They are disruptive and sometimes leave the company worse-off.  An oft-cited statistic is that 70% of organizational change efforts fail.  This metric is attributed to Hammer and Champy’s 1993 classic, “Reengineering the Corporation”    and is reinforced by a 2008 McKinsey survey  […]

Project Management – Leadership Lessons Learned from a Fire Chief Table of Contents 01:09 … Meet Mark 03:32 … Whittier Fire Incident 07:48 … Incident Command Types 10:11 … Managing Incidents 11:40 … Incident/Project Scope 12:53 … Peer Communication 14:11 … Keeping Motivated 15:30 … Leadership Transition 18:10 … Building trust 20:01 … Delegation 22:48 […]

Lean and Agile organizations have harnessed the power of the stand-up meeting as a valuable process tool.  The stand-up is an efficient and effective way to communicate.  It promotes transparency into the progress of work and highlights issues.  The meeting fosters a collaborative work environment and creates accountability.  In this article, I share best practices […]

The Podcast for Project Managers by Project Managers. Table of Contents 01:06 … Meet Kendall 03:27 … PM4Change 04:31 … Finding the Gap 08:05 … PMDOS Event Procedure 11:39 … Organization Support 12:19 … Benefits to the PM 14:48 … Networking 17:33 … Meet Selena 18:16 … Local Launch PMDOS 21:34 … Student Mentoring 24:05 […]

The Podcast for Project Managers by Project Managers Table of Contents 01:14 … Velociteach Beginnings 04:22 … Lessons Learned Stories 07:47 … “Bad news Does Not Get Better With Time” 11:59 … AI 14:49 … Getting Past the Storming Phase 18:22 … When and How to Conduct Meetings 22:50 … Monitoring Projects 27:13 … How […]

Project planning meetings for PM’s Table of Contents 01:24 … Meet Rich 03:58 … Bad Meeting Victims 07:21 … Research 08:44 … Large and in Charge 11:28 … Sponsor Involvement 15:59 … Pre-Meeting Steps 18:56 … Kick-Off Meeting Time Line 20:35 … Risk Register 25:32 … Meeting Goblins 32:46 … Virtual Meetings 35:15 … Naysayers […]

The podcast for Project Managers by Project Managers – Stakeholder Engagement Table of Contents 00:53 … Meet Laura 04:21 … Learning and Development 05:18 … Working Internationally 11:44 … Representing H.Q. Remotely 15:56 … Culture Differences 17:11 … Inheriting a Position 22:30 … Stakeholder Engagement 24:56 … Reading a Room 28:21 … Empathy and Humility […]

“You are not in the room for the conversations that impact your career.” Farley Price I was having dinner with an old friend and colleague.  We were talking about the arc of our careers and the events that brought us to this point.  Farley remarked that we are rarely present for important conversations that affect […]

  The Podcast for Project Managers by Project Managers. Table of Contents 00:59 … Meet Heather 02:46 … Orbital Space Debris 04:10 … LEO and GEO 04:41 … Policy Standards 06:14 … Regulating/Interagency Debris Coordination Committee 08:24 … Assessing and Mitigation 10:24 … Coordinating with Multiple Teams 11:38 … OSD Observatory on Ascension Island 15:53 […]