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The Project Management Podcast™

Are you ready for the challenge of Project Management? Companies increasingly depend on Project Management skills to take their business to the next level. And now, improving your personal Project Management skills has never been easier. Just put on your headphones and listen...

The Project Management Podcast™ looks at how Project Management shapes the business world of today and tomorrow and helps you achieve the level of skill you will need to succeed. We offer free, regular episodes in the format of a traditional radio program that are automatically delivered to your MP3 player. No player? No Problem. You can listen to the program via your computer speakers or have the episodes delivered to you via email .

Click the Play button for any episode to start listening or read the FAQ to find answers to How do I subscribe to The Project Management Podcast™ or  Can I earn PDUs for listening to The Project Management Podcast™? Scroll down to the bottom of this page to read more about what topics we discuss in the program.

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Episode 100 of The PM Podcast is approaching rapidly. Who do you think will be our special guest on this anniversary episode? Put your guess and email address into our survey. The first person to get it right can win "something" from our guest - but if we told you what, then you would know who the guest is... so we can't even tell you the prize and you'll have to wait until episode 100. (Note: There are about 5 people whom we told who the guest is... you know who you are and you are of course not allowed to guess. )

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Episode 099: Measuring and Managing Project Quality

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Stacy GoffSeveral Quality-related problems are unique to projects. For one, it is difficult to measure. In fact, often key stakeholders cannot evaluate the true quality of the results until the delivery day, and then it is too late to do anything to resolve gaps. Also projects often produce something new. So there are few standards against which to evaluate “good” results. This means we are faced with the problem of having to measure something that is difficult to define and nobody has seen before. It's a problem. Stacy Goff, president of Project Experts (http://www.projectexperts.com), recently wrote a paper on exactly this issue. We welcome him back on the program to discuss his definition of quality, how using measures and indicators can help, learn about his favorite quality indicator and you'll hear a number of tips from his quality management toolkit, enabling you to measure quality on your projects.

In our Gizmos section we look at Insight Tree (http://www.visionarytools.com/) and we announce the winners of Jack Ferraro's book The Strategic Project Leader .

Read Stacy's paper titled Measuring and Managing Project Quality (*.pdf)

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Too often project managers simply don't have time to focus on quality. Tight schedules require us to ignore this particular aspect of project management. Customers want it fast, cheap and yesterday. How do you deal with quality in these kinds of situations?

 

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Episode 098 Overtime: Project Leadership Tools

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Jack FerraroWe continue our discussion with Jack Ferraro on Strategic Project Leadership. We look at The Platinum Rule behavioral compatibility assessment and The MyProjectAdvisor Leadership Competency Pyramid. In particular we discuss the characteristics of a project leader and how we translate the theoretical knowledge from these tools into our daily lives. Jack also discusses how a strategic project leader uses efficiency, customization, foresight and connectedness in order to manage a successful project.



Jack makes a passionate plea for us PMs to break out of our traditional roles and build a service based mentality. Do you agree?

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Episode 098: The Strategic Project Leader

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Jack FerraroIn addition to overseeing projects, today's project managers are expected to provide creative input and use their leadership to create an environment that can respond rather than react to changing parameters. And then there are also these continuously moving objectives and requirements that need to be managed. According to Jack Ferraro from www.myprojectadvisor.com this new landscape calls for a service based project manager, which he discusses in his book titled The Strategic Project Leader. In our interview with Jack we explore the attitudes and behaviors that define successful leaders, the importance of a service view in project management and most importantly we discuss and give you tools & tips on how to go from being a certified project manager to the point where you are a strategic leader. It's actionable advice on how to grow your leadership skills.

Click here to read Jack Ferraro's white paper titled Self Directed Leadership Development (*.PDF)

Our other features: In our Gizmos section we introduce you to Processes On Demand by BOT International, a tool that will help you set up your Project Management Office (PMO) and improve your organization's project management maturity. We announce the winners of the giveaway of Jerry Manas's book Managing the Gray Areas . And we also start a new book giveaway for Jack Ferraro's book The Strategic Project Leader .

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Episode 097 Overtime: How to Manage the Gray Areas

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Jerry ManasIn this episode Jerry Manas gives us additional insights into the gray areas. Because his book is called Managing the Gray Areas, we are concentrating on the actual management process. The tools that Jerry recommends and which we discuss at length are

  • Ideals - Standing for something
  • Leading by Questioning
  • Systems Thinking
  • Empathy and Cultural Awareness

Since these are mostly tools from the softer end of managing the gray areas we then go ahead and also spend time looking at a number of hard tools.


How much experimenting goes on during your projects? Please leave a comment and let us know

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Special: PMPOD.DE Episode 4 - Project Blame Management

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This is a special Episode of The PM Podcast in which we introduce you to a new project management related podcast called PMPOD, hosted by Sebastian Stücker at www.pmpod.de. Here is what Sebastian writes about this episode:

Today the PMPOD features its first interview, which I am very proud of. Also it is the first english episode. To all german listeners, who might be surprised, I explain everything in Episode 3. The topic for todays interview is Project Blame Management. Payson Hall, a management consultant based in Sacramento, California, proposes this as new knowledge area for the PMPOK Guide.

I had lots of fun doing the interview with Payson and I hope you have the same while you listen to this episode.



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What Topics does The Project Management Podcast™ discuss?

The Project Management Podcast™ is created by and for Project Managers. This is real project management! Whether you are a PMP who favors the PMI Methodology, a Prince2 Practitioner, IPMA certified or a RegPM certified project manager, you will find topics of interest. Because in the end it doesn't matter if you practice IT Project Management or Construction Project Management - our issues are all the same. 

In every episode we bring you either an interview with a practitioner from around the world or we discuss a topic in-depth. So far, we have discussed Project Management 101, Project Management Software, Project Management Training, Project Portfolio Management, Project Risk Management and we have not only talked about the CAPM Certification and the PMP Certification but have reviewed PM Certifications from around the world. We have also introduced you to several PMI Specific Interest Groups (SIG), have looked at PM Soft Skills in three episodes and we have again and again returned to Project Management Offices (PMO) and Project Management Methodologies like Agile or Waterfall. And every week we introduce you to new Project Management Tools & Project Management Templates that you can find in the Helpful Resources. For a complete listing of the past topics please view our Episode Overview page. 

In the future we plan to look at Intercultural Project Management, look at some Project Management Software, help you with Project Planning and we'll keep coming back to PMOs and methodologies because we like them... If you find that "your" topic is missing then please write to us and we will try and fit it in.

Listening to The Project Management Podcast™ will improve your project management competency and help you gain valuable PDUs. And did we mention that it's completely free of charge?