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We are a few days late with this episode of The PM Podcast because I was gone for the weekend. My wife and I celebrated our 15 year wedding anniversary and so we decided to go to Catalina Island, which is both a tourist destination and a nature reserve just off the coast of Orange County here in CA. So that makes this a couple of days late.

But wait… did I just say a couple of days…? No no no! We are just about ONE YEAR LATE! The interview that you will hear in this episode was recorded in late 2008. Getachew Teklemariam and I got together at that time, recorded this interview, I got it ready for publication and promptly forgot about it. That is until I received another email from Getachew about 3 weeks ago and I was wondering if we ever published this. No we hadn’t. As such, you could say that this particular sub-project is just about one year late...

In the interview, we discuss the overall state of project management in Ethiopia, the available training infrastructure, the industries using project management, how project management in Ethiopia could generally be strengthened and of course, what we project managers around the world can do to help.

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In this episode of The project management podcast we once again welcome back both David Shirley and Rich Maltzman from www.earthpm.com to talk about green project management.

We start out with a short discussion on certification programs for project managers and what Dave and Rich are doing to include the aspect of “green” into these programs. But then we are going to jump into the “how” of green PM. What exactly is it that you do to include aspects of green into your project during initiation, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling and finally also during closing of your project.

That is then followed by the discussion of lifecycle environmental cost. If you remember, Philip Crosby said that “Quality is free” and you can learn today that Dave and Rich feel the same way about green.

And lastly, you have heard of Earned Value Management (EVM), right? But have you ever heard of Environmental Earned Value Management (EEVM)? You definitely will hear about it in our discussion.

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Question: What’s green and manages a project?

The answer isn’t “Kermit the frog” the answer is “All of us”.

At least that is the answer given by Rich Maltzman and David Shirley from www.earthpm.com. David and Rich are two experienced project managers who realized that green is a must because according to PMI, the world will spend 1/5 of its GDP on projects, a hefty $US12 Trillion this year alone.

That's a lot of energy that we put into projects and those projects will use energy, save energy, use resources, and save resources in ways we cannot yet imagine.

That is why they founded www.earthpm.com which is devoted to the intersection of Project Management and "Green" - where green has to do with preventing climate change, preserving resources, and getting things done effectively and efficiently, which should already be flowing in the 'green' blood of any project manager worth their weight in risk registers.

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In this episode you will hear a roundtable discussion with Ron Holohan and Shawn Futterer on The Virtual Project Management Office (PMO).

Ron works for a large consumer electronics company and a number of project managers directly report to him. He also created the company’s internal PMO portal. Shawn works for a telecommunications provider and is in charge of one of several large projects and also has other project managers who are reporting to him.

We talk about what we think a virtual PMO is and then I go and I kind of ambush the guys to determine if they have all the necessary components it takes to build a virtual PMO. Oh… and we are also joined by Mark Perry – but only virtually.