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Episode 186 (Audio): The Agile Manifesto for Project Managers (Free)

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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 agile project management - in particular: what does the manifesto and its 12 principles mean for our work as PMs in an Agile environment.

I hear from a lot of project managers wanting scrum agile project management training, and before you move on to the more advanced topics, it's important to get the foundations right, which is exactly what this episode will help with.

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. Whether you are using scrum project management, or have taken on the role of project manager in SAFe Agile or are working (or plan to work) in any other agile environment, this episode is a great introduction to the basic principles.

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. Agile project management with scrum is a growing topic for agile practitioners, so this episode is one you won't want to miss!

Correction: At 19:45 I attribute the "Theory Y" to Ouchi. That is incorrect. "Theory Y" is from McGregor.

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Episode 185 How to Develop Your Project Team’s Leadership Skills (Project Leadership Series) (Premium)

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Episode 185 How to Develop Your Project Team’s Leadership Skills (Project Leadership Series) (Premium)

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. We'll also learn some tips you can use to grow your leadership skills as well.

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 of our leadership podcasts series, 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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Episode 184: How to Develop Your Leadership Skills (Project Leadership Series) (Free)

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Episode 184: How to Develop Your Leadership Skills (Project Leadership Series) (Free)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 this episode of our leadership podcasts interview series, 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 developing project leadership skills.

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 podcast app 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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Episode 183: Earn 60 Free PDUs (Free)

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This video explains how to earn 60 Free PDUs from The PM Podcast. All you have to do is subscribe, listen and claim!

This video is an update of the information previously published in episodes 150 and 183. The videos of those episodes have been removed.

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The PDU Podcast

This episode of The PM Podcast is titled “Earn 60 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 free PDUs.
  • Just keep doing what you are doing right now:
  • Listen to (or watch) The PM Podcast regularly
  • Claim your 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 I 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.

Ultimately, Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential holders need to earn 60 PDUs for PMP renewal cycles. You can earn half of those for free using The PM Podcast resources, and the video above explains exactly how.

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