“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 […]

Project Planning for Project Managers. Table of Contents 01:04 … Meet Karen Crowe 02:36 … Project Planning and Integration 07:40 … Project Spike 09:13 … Project Scope 12:00 … Cost Management 13:08 … Learning New Practices 15:13 … Gratitude 16:16 … Project Resources 17:33 … Risk Analysis 21:11 … Stakeholders 25:00 … Communication 26:51 … […]

Kanban is a versatile and powerful tool to help you manage your work.  It can be used to track personal projects, complex operations and large programs; for example, it can be used to: Efficiently manage the flow of inventory in a factory, Help students manage their homework and papers, Track the progress of project tasks […]

Table of Contents 01:08 … Meet Jamie Champagne 04:11 … Effective Elicitation 07:40 … “Talk Story” 12:35 … Asking Good Questions 16:19 … How to Get Feedback 21:00 … How to Take Negative Feedback 23:55 … Stakeholder/Sponsor Resistance 28:05 … Leveraging Elicitation Skills 32:38 … Get in Touch with Jamie Effective Elicitation and the PM […]

Table of Contents 00:46 … Meet Jane 03:40 … Gender Gap in IT 09:11 … Transitioning to Non-Profit 18:07 … Dealing with Diverse Cultures 21:08 … Communicating Project Status 24:02 … From CARE USA to World Vision 27:02 … Collaboration Tools and Techniques 28:19 … The Not-For-Profit Work Environment 31:34 … Back to Corporate 33:37 […]

The Podcast for Project Mangers Table of Contents 00:50 … Meet Mike 03:12 … Active vs Passive PM 09:14 … Micromanaging Teams 11:14 … Managing Multiple Projects 12:59 … PM Tools and Processes 17:21 … Setting Expectations 21:40 … Communicating Solutions 23:24 … Keeping Projects on Task 27:16 … Know When to Pull the Plug […]

  “All good lessons come at a cost.  Try to learn them inexpensively.”  Howard Zucker When I made a mistake as a child, my father would remind me that all lessons come at a cost.  The goal was to learn them cheaply.  I did not always follow this maxim.  But, this pearl of wisdom stayed […]

The Podcast by Project Managers for Project Managers. Table of Contents 00:53 … Meet Jennifer 01:56 … Difference between Introverted and Extroverted Leaders 07:36 … Introvert Superpowers 09:52 … Competing with the Extrovert 11:11 … Taking on Extrovert Roles 13:36 … Introverts Leading a Team 17:05 … Assessments 18:45 … Empowering the Introvert 21:20 … […]

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Table of Contents 01:00 … Meet Andy and Bill 04:07 … The Evolution of the PM 06:40 … Managing Stakeholders 12:42 … Common Challenges in Consulting Projects 19:24 … Technology Development and Non-IT Workgroups 23:10 … Is Agile Truly Being Used? 26:22 … Recommendations for New PMs/PMO […]