The Project Management Podcast
A quick health update from me to all my listeners. The diagnosis is BPPV and I'm on the road to improvement. However, I'm still not able to publish regular, weekly episodes.
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If you are a certified PMP then you know what the acronym PDU stands for. It stands for Professional Development Units. Every PMP needs to earn 60 of these PDUs every 3 years in order keep his or her certification. The idea behind having to earn these PDUs is a simple one. PMI wants every PMP to continuously learn. Just like doctors or pilots who have to take classes regularly and practice new skills in order to keep their license, PMI wants us PMPs to learn new project management skills so that we can be the best project managers possible.
The rules describing which activities count towards PDUs and how you have to report and claim them is documented in the “PDU Category Structure and Policies” document. In March 2011 PMI released a new version of these rules that is a lot less complex than the old one. So this has been out for about 10 months now, however, I still receive a lot of emails from confused PMPs who have questions about it. So I went ahead and sat down with Rory McCorkle from PMI to discuss the new structure and get clear descriptions and explanations directly from the horses mouth.
Here are some topics that Rory will discuss in the interview
- Why were the PDU policies changed?
- We’ll define the rule that “One hour of effort is equal to one PDU”
- We’ll discuss the PDU Divisions and Categories
- We give examples of PDU earning activities
- And lot’s more.
I've been fighting an inner-ear infection since December. I won't be able to publish PM Podcast episodes for the coming 2 weeks until the infection has run its course.
Seriously... there are no bloopers this year. So don't bother looking for any.
Move along now... no bloopers to see here. Or hear here.
Now really... why are you still here? Go to another episode now.
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This is another interview recorded at the PMI North American Congress in Dallas Fort Worth. My guest is Rory McCorkle who is the PMI Product Manager - Credentials (and he will tell you himself at the start of the interview what exactly that means). The reason why I’m talking to him is bring you the latest information about the new PMI-ACP certification - that is to say the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam.
Here are some topics that Rory will discuss in the interview
- When did the PMI-ACP certification get started?
- How was PMI-ACP developed?
- What value does the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner certification have for us as Agile project managers as well as our employers?
- What are the pre-requisites that you have to fulfill before you can take PMI-ACP exam?
- And lot’s more.
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This is the 2nd episode with interviews that I recorded on the road in recent weeks. As a special treat you are going to hear not just one, but four interviews today that were recorded at the PMO Syposium in Dallas, TX. Each interview is obviously going to be about PMOs, but with a twist...
I attended the PMO Symposium to help out Mark Perry. Mark is a good friend of mine, the host of The PMO Podcast and his company BOT International was an exhibitor at the PMO Symposium. He asked me to fly in and help at the BOT booth. There I quickly realized that the other consultants from BOT International who were working at the booth were all exceptional experts in their fields. So I decided to ask each of them 3 questions that connect their field of experience with the topic of PMO.
In this episode you will hear:
- Terry Doerscher with whom we focus on Project Portfolio Management
- Steve Romero whose expertise is IT Governance and how it relates to PMO
- Mel Bost who will tell you what a PMO needs to do in order to improve lessons learned in your organization
- And last but not least Mark Perry with whom I discuss what business driven PMO setup and strategy means.
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At the end of October I attended the PMI Global Congress in Dallas Fort Worth, Texas. Two weeks later I attended the PMO Symposium in Orlando Florida. As always I meet a lot of interesting people at these events, which is a great opportunity for me to sit down with them and bring you their thoughts, concerns, ideas and insights.
So over the coming weeks we are going to delve into 10 interviews that were recorded at these two events and we begin with a discussion I had with two representatives from the PMI Guadalajara Chapter from Mexico.
My guests Felipe Nunez and Edgar Polanco are attending the congress mainly to participate in the PMI Leadership Meeting, which usually precedes the congress. In this meeting leaders and board members from PMI Chapters get together to learn from each others experience of leading a volunteer project management organization.
We discuss their impressions of the Leadership Meeting, the Global Congress and how they will be setting up their own, local congress in Guadalajara in 2012.
When I started thinking about what to do for episode 200 knew that I definitely didn’t want to do a self-congratulatory, anniversary episode. So I decided instead that I would be lazy, take a step back and ask 20 thought-leaders in project management one simple question:
In your opinion, what is the number one challenge that project management is facing today and how do we best address it?
The responses I received are as varied as the people I asked. In total we have over 1 hour of insights, which is why episode 200 consists of 4 parts. Parts 1-3 are all the audio responses and part 4 are the videos.
And now... without further ado here are
- Josh Nankivel - www.pmstudent.com
- Mark Perry - www.thepmopodcast.com
- Margaret Meloni - www.margaretmeloni.com
- Tom Mochal - www.tenstep.com
- Max Wideman - www.maxwideman.com
- Jason Westland - www.method123.com
with their number one challenge and solution to project management today.
In case you haven’t listened to part 1, then let me just quickly remind you what we are doing for our anniversary. We have asked 20 thought-leaders in project management one simple question:
In your opinion, what is the number one challenge that project management is facing today and how do we best address it?
The four parts of episode 200 are the compilation of their answers.
So let’s move on and hear what
- Ron Holohan - www.pm411.org
- Roberto Mori - www.ipma.ch
- Elizabeth Harrin - www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com
- Stacy Goff - www.asapm.org
- David Blumhorst - www.daptiv.com
have to say.
By the way... Roberto Mori is the president of IPMA, Stacy Goff is president of ASAPM and you might be wondering if I didn’t reach out to PMI’s president Mark Langley... I did and Mark sent us a video response. To hear what he has to say please watch part 4 with all the videos that we got.
In case you haven’t listened to part 1 and 2, then let me just quickly remind you what we are doing for our anniversary. We have asked 20 thought-leaders in project management one simple question:
In your opinion, what is the number one challenge that project management is facing today and how do we best address it?
The four parts of episode 200 are the compilation of their answers.
So let’s move on and hear what
- Mark Horstman - www.managertools.com
- Jack Ferraro - www.myprojectadvisor.com
- Lindsay Scott - www.arraspeople.co.uk
- Soma Bhattacharia - www.steppingintopm.com
- Terry Doerscher - www.botinternational.com
- Andy Kaufmann - www.peopleandprojectspodcast.com
have to say.
And when you are done don’t forget to watch part 4 in which you’ll see the four video responses that we received.
In case you haven’t listened to part 1, 2 or 3, then let me just quickly remind you what we are doing for our anniversary. We have asked 20 thought-leaders in project management one simple question:
In your opinion, what is the number one challenge that project management is facing today and how do we best address it?
The four parts of episode 200 are the compilation of their answers.
In part 4 we see the video responses of
- Mark Langley - www.pmi.org
- Peter Taylor - www.thelazyprojectmanager.com
- Rich Maltzman - http://earthpm.com
- Wayne Turmel - http://cmm.thepodcastnetwork.com
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In our first interview with Jamal Moustafaev, PMP (www.thinktankconsulting.ca) we looked at what portfolio management is and what benefits it will bring to a company once they have it implemented. But how do you implement it? Where do you start with portfolio management and what strategic approaches should you apply?
These are lots of good questions and Jamal has lots of good answers coming up.
As always, when we have an author on the program to discuss his or her book, we are giving away two copies. One copy automatically goes to one lucky premium subscriber and the other one is up for grabs. Please stop by at facebook.com/pmpodcast and look for the book giveaway notice.
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There is an old PM saying that goes like this: Projects don’t fail at the end... they fail at the beginning. But when exactly is “the beginning”? Is it scope definition? The kick off meeting? The creation of the charter?
For Jamal Moustafaev, PMP (www.thinktankconsulting.ca) it is even earlier than that. A project starts at project selection, which is why he wrote a book about it called Delivering Exceptional Project Results: A Practical Guide to Project Selection, Scoping, Estimation and Management. In today’s interview we are going to take a look at project portfolio management and how it helps companies to deliver these exceptional results.
Here is what Jamal wrote about his book on Amazon: I hope that, after reading this book, junior project managers and technical team members will feel compelled to share it with their superiors so that these superiors can learn how to select projects properly and gain an understanding of the daily challenges faced by project managers. It is also hoped that senior managers who read this book will realize that there are still some improvements to be made to their project management practices and will pass this book on to their subordinates.
As always, when we have an author on the program to discuss his or her book, we are giving away two copies. One copy automatically goes to one lucky premium subscriber and the other one is up for grabs. Please stop by at facebook.com/pmpodcast and look for the book giveaway notice.
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Even though our industry has quite a bad track record of failed projects, that doesn’t mean that we need to stick our head in the sand. Joel Fleiss (www.eppora.com) is one of those thinkers who looks at the problem and tackles it head on.
In part one of the interview we looked at 7 areas of project portfolio failure and right now you are going to hear about 4 more: We start out with a recap of part 1 (just in case you’ve already forgotten what we talked about) and then we will see how Cost Estimations. Workflow and Warnings, Staff Productivity and Labor Resource Allocation can lead to project failure and what can be done about it.
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Many of you will remember Joel Fleiss (www.eppora.com) from our past interviews with the PMI LA Book Club. We heard him review one of Patric Lencioni’s books. But Joel is more than just a book reviewer, he is a senior project manager and project management consultant in his own right.
He has worked in our industry for several decades, both as a project manager and in development of project management software and he has seen the good, the bad and the ugly projects. And it’s the ugly projects that fascinated him most as he was wondering: Why do we have such a bad track record in successful projects and what can we do about it?
The answer to this question can (and does) fill several books, so it’s not surprising, that we had to cut his interview and his answer up and deliver it to you as a two-part series.
In part 1 of our look at portfolio failure, Joel and I are going to look at a Definition of Project Failure, Project Methodology Evolution, Goals and Tactics, Project Selection, Requirements management, Schedules and Testing. Joel will explore what the problems are and what he recommends can be done about it.
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The first Thursday of November is just around the corner, which means that another year has gone by and we are heading for another International Project Management Day (http://www.internationalpmday.org). Frank Saladis, PMP, is the founder of this day and we’ve had him on the program once or twice in the past talking about the event.
So I figured that inviting him back and only talk about the IPM Day would be rather boring for everyone. However, Frank is also an accomplished and very experienced senior project manager. So I decided to tap into his vast knowledge of our profession and dig deeper.
In the interview, Frank and I begin with a quick review of the international PM day, but then we immediately move on to other PM Topics. We look at how the project management profession is regarded by the general public, what we as PMs can do to help those around us understand what exactly it is that we do and then Frank takes the pulse of the industry. He looks back to see where we are coming from, gives us his view of the current state of project management and then we glimpse into the future to see where he thinks that we are headed.
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In today’s episode we are going to take a look at a number of criteria that you can apply in order to select between Agile and waterfall-based project management methodologies.
And let me just say that the title of the presentation… “Criteria for selecting Agile over Waterfall… or not” was intentionally selected to be a bit controversial but I promise that what you will be seeing and hearing in this video will look at many facets and give you a better understanding of the matter at hand.
The reason why we are looking at criteria "for and against" Agile today has to do with the fact that I recently gave a 2.5 hour long webinar presentation for The PDU Podcast. I received great feedback about that presentation and decided to share some of my insights here on The PM Podcast with you.
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In today’s episode we are going to take a look at a number of criteria that you can apply in order to select between Agile and waterfall-based project management methodologies.
And let me just say that the title of the presentation… “Criteria for selecting Agile over Waterfall… or not” was intentionally selected to be a bit controversial but I promise that what you will be seeing and hearing in this video will look at many facets and give you a better understanding of the matter at hand.
The reason why we are looking at criteria "for and against" Agile today has to do with the fact that I recently gave a 2.5 hour long webinar presentation for The PDU Podcast. I received great feedback about that presentation and decided to share some of my insights here on The PM Podcast with you.
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Bill Duncan (http://www.pmpartners.com) is back in this episode.
When I asked him what topic he would like to focus on for our second interview, he immediately pointed me to his article Defining and Measuring Project Success (http://www.pmpartners.com/resources/defmeas_success.html). In this article and in the interview you’ll hear in just a minute, Duncan gives us his outstanding view of what success means, what is wrong with the way that we define success on projects today and what success dimensions and approaches he suggests that we start applying to our project today in order to improve measuring success. We also look at what you can do today on your ongoing projects to check if you measure success properly and what you can do in order to the measurement criteria in an ongoing project.
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Have you ever had to deal with a sponsor who didn’t really understand his or her role on the project? Maybe you only met them once and then they basically told you to go away and stop bothering them instead of being involved and taking responsibility for what their role on the project is? And by the way... what exactly IS their role? Can we please define that?
Yes we can. To be precise: GAPPS can and in today’s interview I am welcoming Bill Duncan (www.pmpartners.com) to discuss the GAPPS standard for project sponsors (www.globalpmstandards.org).
In this interview you will not only hear what the GAPPS standard contains in regards to the sponsor role, but you can use it as a means to do a bit of a cross check on your own projects. Bill Duncan has a lot of valuable insights that you may want to use in the discussions with your sponsors.
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This interview from our PM Podcast Project Leadership Series is another one that I did with Susanne Madsen (www.susannemadsen.co.uk). The project leadership tool that we look at today is... Be The Project Champion.
So you might be wondering what the difference is between a project leader and a project champion? Or whether being a leader doesn’t automatically include the champion aspect? Well... I did too.
The answers to these questions and more will be revealed.
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So far in our PM Podcast Project Leadership Series we have first heard Rick Valerga and Thomas Juli who are both authors on project leadership discuss their leadership models on expectation management and leadership principles. Then we spoke with Andy Kaufman and we learned how to develop our own leadership skills and those of our team - including the appropriate worksheets for our premium listeners..
Now... it’s time for some hands on project leadership tools.
Enter Susanne Madsen (www.susannemadsen.co.uk) and learn about adaptive project leadership.
Adaptive project leadership is a project leadership tool that will help you identify the appropriate leadership style for your project team members. Just like every project is unique, so are your team members. Your leadership style has to follow suit.
As a special bonus item, Susanne is making adaptive leadership white paper and worksheet available to all our listeners. We’re discussing the matrix from this paper in the interview, so you may want to take a look at the filled in matrix on page 3 first. You can manually download the worksheet from pm-podcast.com in episode 191. However, if you use iTunes, Google reader or any other kind of software to subscribe to and download our podcasts, then you will very likely already see this file on your computer.
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Susanne Madsen has made her white paper & worksheet "Adaptive Leadership" available as a PDF document to all our listeners. Click the link to download it.
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In last week’s episode we gave you tips, tricks and lessons learned how you can improve your project communications with proper use of modern tools. Call them social media tools, call them enterprise 2.0 tools, call them whatever you want. But at the core of using them is the understanding that many problems on projects can be avoided with proper communication and collaboration within your project team.
But there are still unsolved problems on our projects.
In this second interview with Robert Szilinski and Michael Krebs (www.esentri.com and www.social-pm.com) we talk about the need for a flatter top-down hierarchie, combining Agile with waterfall, using enhanced social media concepts for project management and other ways of integrating social media tools into enterprise project management.
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What would you say is the biggest problem on projects today? Is it the ever increasing complexity? Is it project sponsors who are absent? Is it the impossible expectations that our customers have?
Robert Szilinski and Michael Krebs (www.esentri.com and www.social-pm.com) say that it’s neither of these. Instead, our top problems are all internal to our project teams. They are communication, collaboration and integration of all team members and their knowledge into the overall project.
Robert and Michael’s answer to help improve project management is to enable our teams to work on a level that is more integrated, based on sharing and trust. Much of this in connection with Social media tools for project management. We’ll get a ton of tips, tricks and lessons learned from how they have used these social media tools on projects.
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The toolkit for project managers in the area of Enterprise 2.0 (often also called Social Media Project Management Tools) is vast. We have wikis, blogs, networking tools, microblogging, videos, podcasts. It’s a sheer endless list of tools that our project participants suddenly expect us to use and be proficient in on our projects.
But where should you start? How should you start? Which tool is appropriate for which task and (almost more importantly) for which target audience. These are just some of the topics that we touch upon in our 2nd interview with Dennis Brooke on Enterprise 2.0 Tools for Project Managers.
We’ll even look at the questions of “Isn't this whole Enterprise 2.0 /Social Media stuff not simply just a gimmick?” and how do we get people to change and use the tools properly?
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Let’s be honest with each other. Last week, when you finished your project status report... how did you distribute it to the intended audience? You sent it via email... right?
Well, that is SO internet 1.0.
Our interview guest today is Dennis Brooke (http://www.dennisbrooke.com) who’s passion it is to help you adopt Enterprise 2.0 project management tools and move you into the 21st century. At his website you can read stories about life, business, and even project management
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Dennis Brooke has made his presentation "The New Collaboration for Project Management Success – Enterprise 2.0" available as a PDF document to all our listeners. Click the link to download it.
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In this episode of The Project Management Podcast we are going to review "The Manifesto for Agile Software Development". It is better known by the simpler name The Agile Manifesto and you can find it at http://agilemanifesto.org/.
The focus of our review of the manifesto is (of course) going to be on project management - in particular: what does the manifesto and it's 12 principles mean for our work as PMs in an Agile environment. I am going to give you my personal thoughts on this by analyzing the manifesto itself and then looking at each of the 12 principles and relating them to a PM's work.
This episode is available both as a video and also as an audio-only version. Stop by at www.pm-podcast.com to download the version you want.
Correction: At 19:45 I attribute the "Theory Y" to Ouchi. That is incorrect. "Theory Y" is from McGregor.
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In this episode of The Project Management Podcast we are going to review "The Manifesto for Agile Software Development". It is better known by the simpler name The Agile Manifesto and you can find it at http://agilemanifesto.org/.
The focus of our review of the manifesto is (of course) going to be on project management - in particular: what does the manifesto and it's 12 principles mean for our work as PMs in an Agile environment. I am going to give you my personal thoughts on this by analyzing the manifesto itself and then looking at each of the 12 principles and relating them to a PM's work.
This episode is available both as a video and also as an audio-only version. Stop by at www.pm-podcast.com to download the version you want.
Correction: At 19:45 I attribute the "Theory Y" to Ouchi. That is incorrect. "Theory Y" is from McGregor.
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In this premium episode we are going to continue to develop project leadership skills. But not just anybody’s skills. We are focusing on what you and I can do as project leaders in order to enable our own project teams to take more leadership responsibilities. After all, one important trait of a project leader is that she or he helps others on the road to leadership.
My guest is Andy Kaufmann, PMP from The Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development (www.i-leadonline.com and www.peopleandprojectspodcast.com). In the last episode, all our premium listeners received a free copy of his two Leadership Appraisal worksheets. If you are a premium listener and you haven’t seen those yet, please take another look at episode 184 and look for the PDF documents. For this interview on team leadership development Andy is offering his Team Charter worksheet to you. All paying, premium subscribers can download the PDF and use it the next time they have a team kick off meeting.
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In today’s episode we continue our PM Podcast project leadership series. I have invited Andy Kaufman, PMP from The Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development (www.i-leadonline.com and www.peopleandprojectspodcast.com) to discuss how each and everyone of you could go about to develop your project management leadership skills.
In the interview, Andy and I discuss how project management differs from project leadership, if a project leader needs subject matter expertise, why he recommends that we develop capability in our teams and of course he gives us his tips on skill development.
As a special gift to our premium listeners, Andy is making two Leadership Appraisal worksheets available to our premium listeners. You’ll get both the self appraisal and the others appraisal form. One is for you to fill in and one is to give to your peers, team members or boss to fill in. So... if you are a premium listener: thank you very much for suppoprting the podcast financially and please check your iTunes for these 2 PDF documents. (Note: These worksheets are not available on our website or via the free podcast. They are delivered via your paid, premium podcast subscription feed.)
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Download and print the Category C PDU Logfile (PDF) to keep track of how many hours of The PM Podcast you have listened to. Every time you listen to a new episode simply take out a pen and fill in the next line. Print a new page when needed. Once you have reached the minimum number of listening required (watch episode 150 to learn how much that is...) then you can claim your PDUs with PMI. Keep your handwritten notes in case you are audited by PMI after claiming the PDUs.
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This episode of The PM Podcast is titled “Earn 30 Free PDUs” because we want to show you how to do exactly that simply by listening to The PM Podcast. Here's how in a nutshell:
- It’s very simple to earn these 30 Free PDUs.
- Just keep doing what you are doing right now:
- Listen to (or watch) The PM Podcast regularly
- Claim 30 Category C PDUs from PMI
Many of you may already be aware of this and also how it is done, but we keep getting emails from people asking about this and starting March 1, 2011 PMI has increased the number of PDUS that you can earn in this way from 15 to 30. That is why created this video.
Note: This video is in essence an update to the old video in episode 150, explaining how this all works under PMI's new PDU category structure. To avoid confusion, we have removed the video of episode 150 and replaced it with this one.
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In this premium episode of The PM Podcast we you get to hear more of Wayne Turmel’s wisdom on improving your presentations.
But not just any kind of presentations... Remember that Wayne is the president of www.greatwebmeetings.com, which means, that the one thing he knows more about than most of us is... well... how to lead great web meetings and how to ensure that our virtual meetings are without mistakes. That’s why my first question to Wayne is what he thinks are the greatest mistakes we make when giving virtual presentations.
The we will once again open up his latest book “#PRESENTATION tweet - 140 Ways to Present with Impact” http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/presentationtweet01.php and we will look in detail at a dozen or so tips on virtual presentations in more detail.
Of course, we are also doing a book giveaway and we have 2 copies of Wayne’s book. As always: 1 copy is reserved for our premium listeners and one copy is raffled off via our facebook fan page. So go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, find the post with this book giveaway and leave a comment to participate in the giveaway.
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So tell me... how often do you as a project manager need to give a presentation? This could be as simple as adressing your team during a team meeting, facilitating a telephone conference with your customers, giving a formal status update to your sponsors or customers or even doing a web based meeting. If I look back at my work as a PM I probably had to do this at least two to three times every single week. And I assume that it’s very similar for you as well.
That is why I’ve gone ahead and invited Wayne Turmel (http://www.greatwebmeetings.com/) to the program today. Wayne has been teaching how you can excel at giving presentations for many years and he has published several books on the topic. The latest one is called “#PRESENTATION tweet - 140 Ways to Present with Impact”. The book is full of tweets on improving your presentations and you can find it at http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/presentationtweet01.php
We have selected 12 of these tweets for today’s interview with Wayne and he goes much, MUCH deeper into each topic.
Of course, we are also doing a book giveaway and we have 2 copies of Wayne’s book. As always: 1 copy is reserved for our premium listeners and one copy is raffled off via our facebook fan page. So go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, find the post with this book giveaway and leave a comment to participate in the giveaway.
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We are continuing The PM Podcast Leadership Series. This is the 2nd interview that I did with Thomas Juli (www.thomasjuli.com and http://thomasjuli.wordpress.com), author of “Leadership Principles for Project Success”. Last week, we learned about his 5 principles and how they work. But wouldn’t it be more interesting if he also told you HOW you actually implement these principles on your project? That’s what we’ll do in this interview.
The problem is of course, that we cannot go through a complete project implementation process and discuss all those leadership principles in a 20 minute interview. That’s why we decided to focus just on initiating a project.
Of course, we are also doing a book giveaway and we have 2 copies of Thomas’s book. As always: 1 copy is reserved for our premium listeners and one copy is raffled off via our facebook fan page. So go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, find the post with Thomas Juli’s book giveaway and leave a comment to participate in the giveaway.
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We continue our look at leadership with the “The PM Podcast Project Leadership Series.” In our last 2 episodes you heard me discuss project leadership with Rick Valerga author of “The Cure For The Common Project” and in this and the next episode you will get to hear about five “Leadership Principles for Project Success” from Thomas Juli.
Thomas and I begin with a definition of leadership, then we explore the 5 principles, from where we move on to some hands on tips in regards to skills you need to be a leader and actions you can apply to work more as a leader on your projects.
Thomas Juli (www.thomasjuli.com and http://thomasjuli.wordpress.com), is the author of the book “Leadership Principles for Project Success” which was published by CRC Press last August. He is the founder and managing director of his own consulting business “Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners”, a professional service organization for innovative empowerment, consulting and interim management in the areas of governance, leadership, project and operational management. Their unique consultative approach is rooted in the mission statement: „Empowering people and organizations through leadership”
Of course, we are also doing a book giveaway and we have 2 copies of Thomas’s book. As always: 1 copy is reserved for our premium listeners and one copy is raffled off via our facebook fan page. So go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, find the post with Thomas Juli’s book giveaway and leave a comment to participate in the giveaway.
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Last week we launched our Project Leadership Series and interviewed author Rick Valerga (www.projectleadershipadvisors.com), author of “The Cure For The Common Project”. In this interview, you got introduced to the 5 Core Themes from his book. As a refresher, they are: Expectation management, Ownership, Winning, Narrative, and Eliciting the best.
In today’s interview we want to go ahead and put one of these leadership principles into action. Rick and I decided to focus on “Expectation Management” to show you how a project leader approaches this important task.
Remember...if you would like to win a copy of Rick Valerga’s “The Cure For The Common Project” then you are in luck, because we are giving away 2 copies. One copy (as always) is reserved for our premium listeners and the 2nd copy can be grabbed by anyone. To participate in this giveaway, please go go www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, look for the book giveaway and simply leave a comment.
In this episode we begin what I hope is going to be a great journey here on the program. We are starting “The PM Podcast Project Leadership Series. The idea is that for the rest of 2011, we are going to return again and again to the topic of project leadership by bringing you interviews with experts from the field of leadership.
We launch the series with four interviews that I did with two authors of project leadership books. The first two interviews are with Rick Valerga (www.projectleadershipadvisors.com), author of “The Cure For The Common Project” and then you will meet Thomas Juli who wrote “Leadership Principles for Project Success”.
However, the first author that you are going to meet in this episode is Peter Taylor, because Peter Taylor has once again published a new book based on his blog “The Lazy Project Manager”and he is donating the proceeds to the Japan relief effort. I suggest that you go ahead and stop by at The Lazy Project Manager and buy this book for a good cause.
If, however, you would much rather WIN a book, to be precise if you would like to win a copy of Rick Valerga’s “The Cure For The Common Project” then you are in luck, because we are giving away 2 copies. One copy (as always) is reserved for our premium listeners and the 2nd copy can be grabbed by anyone. To participate in this giveaway, please go go www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, look for the book giveaway and simply leave a comment.
Did you notice that in past few months, if you listened all the way to the end of some of our interviews - and I mean, really ALL the way to the end, after I say "until next time", after the music has faded out - that there was more. That we sometimes added another short segment?
Usually, this segment started out with me saying: "I have one more question for you" and then our interview guest would usually have some anecdote or story to tell? Well... if you haven't heard them, you can always go back and listen to them.
But to tell you the truth... when I said "I have one more question for you" .... I lied. Because usually, I had TWO more questions for them. And in today's episode you are going to hear the SECOND "one more question" that I asked them.
You'll hear the following guests one more time:
- Peter Taylor
- Pam Stanton
- Frank Saladis
- Mark Philips
- Elizabeth Harrin
- Jeff Furman
- Steve Kaye
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This is a special episode in which you are going to hear a recorded conference call with Margaret Meloni, PMP and her class.
The topic: Working with Jerks - or rather how to handle the jerks that you work with at the office...
Note to premium listeners: No transcript will be provided for this episode.
Click here to download the PDF document What agreements are YOU making? by Margaret Meloni...
This PDF document is not directly related to the special audio program from Margaret Meloni. It is a compilation of articles that she wrote based on the books "The Five Agreements" and "The Fifth Agreement" by Don Miguel Ruiz.
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Last week we welcomed 5 bloggers on the program to take a look back at what's been going on in PM over the past few months. So let's turn around and look into the future.
I wanted to know from our group what they think is the cutting edge of PM today, what trends they see, what trends they would like to write about, what they feel is missing from the PMBOK Guide and if they see anything in the horizon that will come after Kanban, Scrum and Agile.
The bloggers that you will hear from today are:
- Peter Taylor: www.thelazyprojectmanager.com
- Josh Nankivel: www.pmstudent.com
- Terry Doerscher: www.planview.com/enterprise-navigator-blog
- Elizabeth Harrin: www.pm4girls.com
- Soma Bhattacharya: www.steppingintopm.com
If you yourself have a blog and would like to be part of The Pulse then let us know to be included.
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Have you ever wanted to take "The Pulse" of project management? You know, have a simple way at your disposal with which you could see and learn what's going on with project management these days? To learn what people are talking about, maybe learn about new tools & techniques and just generally understand where our field is heading?
Well... I have... many times. And my answer to this is a new feature here on The PM Podcast called "The Pulse" that you will be hearing here every few months. In the pulse you will hear the voices of a number of Project Management bloggers out there and learn what they are writing about, what they hear from their readers and what they read on other blogs. These bloggers are at the forefront of project management today. They constantly ask themselves "Where is PM going these days?", "Where am I going as a PM?" and "What's new and cool that I could write about for my readers?".
And it's that inquisitiveness that we are bringing together here on The Pulse for you to learn from.
The bloggers that you will hear from today are:
- Peter Taylor: www.thelazyprojectmanager.com
- Josh Nankivel: www.pmstudent.com
- Terry Doerscher: www.planview.com/enterprise-navigator-blog
- Elizabeth Harrin: www.pm4girls.com
- Soma Bhattacharya: www.steppingintopm.com
If you yourself have a blog and would like to be part of The Pulse then let us know to be included.
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In 1965 Bruce W. Tuckman devised the five stages of team growth and today, we are going to take a look at all 7 of them... yes you heard me right all 7.
For this we welcome back Pam Stanton (http://www.pamstanton.com). We will first review the 5 traditional stages, explain why she sees the need for 7 instead of 5 and review the major differences. Then we discuss the need for us PMs to be masters of our soft skills for team development, how we sometimes fail in this endeavor and how the 7 stages may help us overcome that.
We are still in the process of giving away 2 copies of her book The Project Whisperer. One copy - as always - is reserved for our premium listeners and one copy is up for grabs. To win the book please go to our Facebook Fan Page, look for the post about the book giveaway and leave a comment.
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I have an interesting confession to make... I love curling. Yes... I really enjoy that sport where the players slide stones over ice towards a target area at the far end of the playing field. I love to play it and I love to watch it as well. And, you might ask, what does that have to do with project management? Our guest Pam Stanton (http://www.pamstanton.com) will explain the connection between the two in our interview when we talk about her book and practice called The Project Whisperer.
But you'll not only hear how curling & project management connect, you'll also learn what a project whisperer is, how you can benefit from being a project whisperer and what the first steps are for you to become a project whisperer. And of course... we are giving away 2 copies of her book. One copy - as always - is reserved for our premium listeners and one copy is up for grabs. To win the book please go to our Facebook Fan Page, look for the post about the book giveaway and leave a comment.
By the way... did you miss me last week? Or did you not even notice that we didn't publish an episode? But for all those among you who actually noticed and where wondering "where is this week's PM Podcast?" we skipped it, because... drum roll please... I am happy to announce that I became a US Citizen. I got sworn in on Friday and you can imagine that I had my mind on other things.
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Last week, we had Scotty Bates (www.robbinsgioia.com) on the show and we discussed, how Program Management has changed over the past 30 years.
Today, he and I are going to take a look at how risk management has gone from a more or less informal project activity to the formalized discipline that it is today.
We'll look at the role that IT has played in this process, what the differences are between an issue & risk, how to convince your sponsors that risk management is necessary even on small and medium sized projects and how the attitude of us project managers to risk management has changed over the years.
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What would you say is the single biggest change that has occurred in the area of Program Management between 1981 and now? Did it make a difference if you had a PM certification in 1981 and wanted to get a program management job versus today? What skills did a program manager need in 1981 then and today?
Well... if you think that these are some more questions out of Jeff Furmans "Project Management Answer Book" that we discussed in our last episode, then you'd be... wrong.
Instead, these are the questions that I asked Scotty Bates. Scotty currently works for Robbins-Gioia (www.robbinsgioia.com) and he has been actively involved in project and in particular program management for the last 30 years. So let's look at what these changes are and learn how they influence how much better (or worse) we manage programs today.
I also wanted to thank everybody who participated in our 20-books giveaway. We had purchased 20 copies of Peter Taylor's latest PM book "The Lazy Blogger" and we had an incredible number of people signing up to win one of them on our Facebook Fan Page. I'm not going to read out the names of the winners here, but we had 10 winners from among our free listeners and we had 10 winners from among our paying premium subscribers. The winning names have been published on our Facebook Fan Page.
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In this episode we are going to tackle a subject that I don't think we have looked at previously: Ethics in Project Management.
To shed more light on this we are talking to Jeff Furman who has a whole section of ethics in his Project Management Answer Book. We're starting out by looking at ethics in general, move on to ethics & legal aspects and then carefully tread our way though a number of interesting ethical situations.
Would you like to win a copy of Jeff's Book? That's easy! As always we are giving away 1 copy to our paying premium Podcast listeners and 1 copy is up for grabs. All you have to do is go to our Facebook Fan Page, find the notice about the book giveaway and leave a comment. We will draw the winners around the 9th of Feb 2011. So make sure you stop by before then.
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