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There are many ways for you to learn about project management. The best one is certainly through your own personal experience of managing a project. However, another very effective way to learn about what not to do is by hearing accounts of projects that have gone wrong. Hearing about the problems that occurred without having to suffer through them yourself will enable you to see similar issues on your project and then try and steer clear. In today's episode you are going to hear an account of such a project. Our show host Cornelius Fichtner has been mentoring a junior PM over the past 18 months on an important project that has gone from one problem to the next. Listen in to his recounting the story of the project and giving you tips on how to improve your weekly team conference calls and to use your status reports to make management face the facts of a project in trouble.

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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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Have you ever had a project that was 7 months late? Today’s episode of The Project Management Podcast is such a project. In January of this year, our show host Cornelius Fichtner was on a cruise in the Mexican Riviera. During this cruise he recorded a number of Podcast episodes that were supposed to be published in February. But for some reason, today’s episode was forgotten and is now finally being published. In this episode, we focus on improving your project team performance by focusing on the project team members themselves. We have a number of helpful resources (click on the link below) that discuss how you can focus on your team members and we look at a specific example in which Cornelius helped one Podcast listener to support one of his team members and thereby keep a project on track. We are also giving away 2 licenses of the MPMM Project Management Methodology . Listen in to hear how to participate.

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Have you ever wondered what the differences are between some of the major PM methodologies? If yes, then this episode will definitely be of interest to you. Jason Westland and I take a closer look at the following 10 PM methodologies:

• MPMM
• Scrum
• RUP
• AUP
• EUP
• UPMM
• Tenstep
• PMCOP
• SSADM
• IEM

You'll get to hear their strengths, what they are used for and we'll throw some "PM methodology history" into the mix as well.