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Due to a death in the family, there will be no episode of The Project Management Podcast™ this week. We will resume our program in 2 weeks. 

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This week, The Project Management Podcast™ proudly presents to you the 100th episode of The PMO Podcast™ , which is produced by Mark Perry from BOT International. Here is what Mark writes about the episode:

The PMO Podcast™ Featured Story
This week The PMO Podcast™ Featured Story presents, "Project Portfolio Management Deployment Guidelines, an interview with Dr. Ginger Levin", presented by Mark Perry, host of The PMO Podcast™. Is your organization considering implementing project portfolio management or refreshing its approach to PPM? Dr. Ginger Levin provides deployment guidelines for PPM, insights, and ideas helpful and applicable to just about any organization seeking to manage project portfolios.

The PMO Podcast™ Points Memo
The PMO Podcast Points Memo suggests, “It's not luck." Whether a competitor in sports, a leader of a business, or a head of a PMO, success or lack there of is seldom an act of chance. It takes a lot of work and no sooner do you get things going well, than you are faced with change and the need to refine that which you have just spent quite a bit of time and effort defining in the first place.

The PMO Podcast™ Mailbag
The PMO Podcast Mailbag provides the ninth in a series of ten tips for setting up a PMO.

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Sigma is the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet and the lower case sigma (σ) is the symbol used to depict the quality management approach Six Sigma (6σ). Six Sigma is a system that was originally developed by Motorola to systematically improve manufacturing processes by eliminating defects. It was defined as a metric for measuring defects and improving quality as well as a methodology to reduce defect levels below 3.4 defects per million. Six Sigma has come a long way and is a respected methodology. Our guest today, is Steven West, who is a Six Sigma Black Belt and works for a financial services company. We explore the Six Sigma program of his company, the projects that he has worked on and learn what being a Black Belt has done for him.

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Who defines what project management is? We all do. Some of you may have a blog and you publish your thoughts on project management that way. Or you discuss a methodology with a friend over lunch. Some introduce papers with exciting new ideas to attendees at conferences or give a presentation at their professional organization's monthly meeting. Others again write articles for newsletters or magazines. Then there are those who produce podcasts or discuss project management through other media. All of us define the current and future state of project management. And then there is Jerry Manas, PMP, President and founder of The Marengo Group, LLC (http://www.manasbooks.com and http://www.pmthink.com) who like many others decided to write a project management book. And it's the process of writing a project management related book that we are going to explore with Jerry today. Being a good project manager, he has a lessons learned file that he opens up for us. We hear how he came up with the idea, how he organized it, how he found a publisher, what it takes to publicize the book and what it felt like to hold the first copy in his hands.