Change Management and TOC
"I will do what I can, with what I have, where I'm at." This is a different take on change management; we break down what people say about change but linking it to the underlying framework from the Th...
22 Feb 20221h
Cognitive Behavior
"Do all the humans on your team have brains?" Not a comment on ability but on cognition and hardwired biases; if they have brains, they make mistakes in regular patterns. PMs follow the same logical p...
29 Jan 20221h 5min
Heretical Agile
In this episode, organizational change consultant and expert Agilista Leila Rao grounds us in the reality that investing in people is central to successful Agile transformation. While we're often dist...
21 Dec 20211h 1min
Project Management Forward from the 2021 UMD Symposium
We know change is constant. So as business practices evolve and new systems & tools are developed, the role of Project Managers and the skills they rely on must change to meet the new demands. PMs who...
22 Nov 20211h
Where has PM Gone?
Guest Galen Low, from The Digital Project Manager (DPM), discusses the challenges of the conventional project manager and the ways we define the field. As Lowe addresses, the expansion of the digital ...
26 Okt 20211h 6min
Effective Communication from the 2021 UMD Symposium
Transformation Attenuation: The loss of signal that occurs as a message moves down the chain from the C suite. Illusion: The assumption that communication has taken place, when in fact it hasn't. Her...
22 Sep 20211h
Product Management and the Toaster
A team, a technology, a toaster. A tale of the Product Manager and the Project Manager brought to life as co-hosts Kendall and Mike ride the narrative road with Tom Klaff, the CEO who made it happen. ...
26 Aug 20211h 2min
Avoiding Failure from the 2021 UMD Symposium
The statistics around project success vs. failure are less than heartening, to say the least. For all the tools and expertise PMs bring to the table, we somehow manage to miss the mark more often than...
22 Juli 202159min
