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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: rebelsguidetopm.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. 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 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.teamrg.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 (which will be helpful for those listeners wanting to improve risk management in agile projects) and how the attitude of us project managers to risk management has changed over the years.