What I Taught Today We continue our series of brief videos about something I’ve recently taught or learned. Earlier today I was interviewed for an upcoming PMO Virtual Summit. Our discussion was about managing difficult…
Your Agile Journey If you spend enough time leading projects, you can’t miss the fact that agile approaches continue to gain in popularity. What seemed initially relevant to only software development projects is now increasingly...
The State of the PMO In this video episode, I invite Peter Taylor, Bill Dow, and Hussain Bandukwala to a roundtable discussion about project management offices (PMOs). We have a great interaction about the state...
Expert Insights From a Brilliant Project Manager One of the true joys I have in my role is the opportunity to meet and interact with people from all over the world. And when I have...
What’s So Critical About Critical Path? If you’re preparing for taking the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, you need to know how to calculate critical path by hand. Beyond the exam, what’s important is to...
Constraints are…. Good? Timeframes. Budgets. Staffing. Project managers constantly face confounding constraints on their journey to deliver a project. Constraints limit our options. They seem to make it more difficult to deliver. And they might...
What Did You Learn Last Year? What’s something specific you’ve learned in the last 12 months that you either didn’t know before then or you had to re-learn it? That’s a question I asked some...
You Have More Stakeholders Than You Realize One of the primary reasons so much of our emphasis on The People and Projects Podcast is on the people side of our profession is because that is...
Too Good to Be True? In this episode, I welcome Scrum inventor and co-creator Jeff Sutherland. He’s the author of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. Does getting twice the...
A Lifetime of Commitment to Project Management In this episode, we speak with Max Wideman, one of the original authors of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (in fact, he coined the term “PMBOK Guide“)....