Latest Programmanager Podcast Episodes
094 - Agile vs Waterfall Smack-Down!
Project Management Happy Hour - May 14, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsFor the first time, Kate and Kim find an Agilist brave enough to join them on the podcast to talk about some really hard questions about working Agile vs Waterfall. Let’s get it on! We ask the questions that PM’s want to ask - frustrated, annoyed PM’s who are told to work “agile” by people who...
093 - Rising from Tactical PM to Strategic Advisor, with Gregg Richie and Ralph Kliem
Project Management Happy Hour - April 16, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsProject Management is weird. You can have the same job title and be a very tactical execution-minded project manager - which is the way most of us start. Or you can be a strategic part of the leadership team, recognized for your ability to help executives make their vision a reality. So, how ...
092 - Goblins in the room! Managing meeting misbehaviors, with Rich Maltzman
Project Management Happy Hour - February 16, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsMeetings. Love them or hate them, they are core to what we do as project leaders. We need to pull people together (real or virtually) to discuss, plan, check-in, and get things done. But as we know, when we get people together, sometimes their misbehaviors - “goblins” - tag along, too! Being a...
091 - The Perfect Status Report: How to measure percent complete
Project Management Happy Hour - December 26, 2023 17:19 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratings“What percent done are you?” Status reporting is a core skill (and responsibility) of project managers. It is an opportunity for you to check in with your team, and to build rapport and engagement with stakeholders. But it’s also something we often take for granted. In this episode, Kate an...
090 - How to tell other people what to do
Project Management Happy Hour - September 19, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsBeing a project manager is tough. You are assigned a team of people who may never have with each other (or you) before, and you need to lead them to accomplish a task, solve a problem, or create a new deliverable. And by definition, this is a unique task - so it hasn’t been done before, at least...
089 - Reorgs and Restructurings: sailing the waves of organizational change chaos
Project Management Happy Hour - August 10, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsIt can be hard getting a project started correctly: getting the right executive and stakeholder sponsorship and support, getting them all to agree on the scope and approach, getting funding, approvals, and all the other things required to get a project off the ground. You negotiate with other ...
088 - The CHAOS Report: Measuring project failure
Project Management Happy Hour - July 06, 2023 17:32 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsProjects are hard. And a lot of them - maybe most of them - fail to live up to their expectations. Missed timelines, quality issues, budget overages, customer dissatisfaction - it seems sometimes like projects miss the mark more often than they hit it. But why is that? What can we learn from all...
087 - Creative decision making: do you have the right 4 voices in the room? with Teresa Lawrence
Project Management Happy Hour - May 17, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsCreative decision making is key to what we do in all our projects. According to FourSight, there are 4 distinct voices in the decision making process. Do you have these voices in the room when you make decisions? Do you know when you need all 4 voices - or only a couple specific ones? We are ...
086 - The project behind a Disaster Response, with the ITDRC
Project Management Happy Hour - April 07, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratings“I know the world is ending, but do you have wifi here?” Sounds funny, but it’s deadly serious. Natural disasters impact critical infrastructure that we depend on every day: shelter, fresh water, food distribution, and power. These are the ones we think about. But what about communication? ...
085 - Deciding on how to make good Decisions, with Kandis Porter
Project Management Happy Hour - February 28, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsDecisions make or break your project - starting with the decision of whether or not to even do your project. Beyond that, we have planned decisions / phase gates and ad-hoc decisions that happen throughout the entire life of our project. And if you’ve been around long enough, you know that one b...
084 - OH, We Forgot About Change Management! What to do when you get caught with your ADKAR down, with Tim Creasey
Project Management Happy Hour - January 10, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsYeah! One of our favorite guests, Tim Creasey, returns! This time we are talking about what happens if you realize, too late in the game, that you really didn’t consider Change Management enough in your planning cycle. It’s such a universal experience of a project manager to not have change m...
083 - The 30 Minute Executive Meeting: Make it count
Project Management Happy Hour - December 22, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsAs a project manager, the time you get with an executive sponsor is critical: you don’t get much of it and you cannot blow it! For many of our listeners, you may be new to executive meetings. But, how do you get the most out of these meetings and give a good impression so you can get the confide...
082 - The Project Behind a Tech Startup, with Pete Bernardo from Punchlist
Project Management Happy Hour - September 29, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsTech startups drive the technology around us, and a good bit of the economy. They use creativity, ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit to solve problems and build the world of tomorrow. But how do they do that? Is it really like the “Shark Tank” or “Dragon’s Den” tv shows? Today we are joined ...
081 - The Project Behind an Emergency Covid Vaccination Site, with Aaron Bellinger, PMP
Project Management Happy Hour - August 30, 2022 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsWhen the first Covid vaccinations were released, massive vaccination sites were launched, seemingly overnight, to vaccinate millions of people. If you volunteered or were vaccinated at one of these sites, you may have witnessed how huge, sophisticated and well run these sites were. But how did t...
080 - First PM on the Beach: How to succeed when you are the first Project Manager in your organization
Project Management Happy Hour - July 19, 2022 10:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsThis episode is based on feedback we’ve had from our member 1:1 coaching sessions, one of the benefits we provide our PM Happy Hour members. Many PM’s find themselves in a position where they are the first project manager in their organization. Whether you are a newbie or an experienced pro, t...
079 - Welcome to the Dungeon! Kate and Kim do Project Management RPG (D&D)
Project Management Happy Hour - June 14, 2022 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsOK, originally this was going to be an April Fool’s goof podcast, but it turned out to be a lot of fun and maybe a bit educational. But, nope, it’s not your usual PMHH episode, and DEFINITELY not your typical PM podcast. So, if you are looking for something serious and academic, this episode is ...
078 - Recommending Change Without Getting Chased out the Door
Project Management Happy Hour - May 24, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsPMs are accountable for project success. As such, we are keenly aware when things are failing! And because most PM’s are process and goal oriented, we can think of a lot of ways to improve an organization. But how do you propose a change in a way that gets support - instead of damnation? If yo...
077 - Behavioral PM: the Feakonomics approach to project delivery with Dr. Josh Ramirez
Project Management Happy Hour - April 19, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsWouldn’t it be cool if everyone followed all the processes we built? If everyone on our team followed the PMBOK or SCRUM methodologies perfectly every single time and every estimate we ever received was perfectly accurate? Of course that doesn’t happen. But did you ever stop to think - why? W...
076 - Imposter Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment
Project Management Happy Hour - March 02, 2022 22:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratings“I am in way over my head.” “I have no business doing this job” “I am totally not worthy of this role” “There is no way I’m qualified to do this” Have you ever told this to yourself? You may be infected with Imposter Syndrome! That’s OK - all highly capable people, especially project m...
075 - Top Tips from a Project Management Coach, with Heather Gates
Project Management Happy Hour - February 04, 2022 20:08 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsThe same way sports teams have coaches to help optimize their performance, organizations can engage PM coaches to help their project management team win. In this episode, we are joined by Heather Gates, a PM coach who has worked to help develop project managers across many organizations. In t...
074 - The Project Behind a Movie
Project Management Happy Hour - January 12, 2022 17:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsDid you ever watch the credits at the end of a movie and think, “wow, that’s a lot of people?” You’re right. Hundreds or thousands of people engaged to deliver a massive, multi-million dollar project that is a feature film. How do they do that? Our guest today walks us through the project beh...
073 - A 12 Pack of Alignment Hacks with Tim Creasey - Part 2
Project Management Happy Hour - December 01, 2021 14:27 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsWe are joined again by one of our favorite guests, Tim Creasey, Organizational Change Wizard. This time he shares 12 different methods for creating better alignment with your team and your stakeholders. In this first part of a 2 part episode, we share the first 6 of these hacks to help get two p...
072 - A 12 Pack of Alignment Hacks with Tim Creasey - Part 1
Project Management Happy Hour - November 23, 2021 16:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsWe are joined again by one of our favorite guests, Tim Creasey, Organizational Change Wizard. This time he shares 12 different methods for creating better alignment with your team and your stakeholders. In this first part of a 2 part episode, we share the first 6 of these hacks to help get two p...
The Project Behind an Ironman Triathlon with Paul Huddle, Senior Regional Director for the Ironman Group
Project Management Happy Hour - September 23, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsThe Ironman Triathlon. Without exaggeration, it is truly one of the most epic endurance events that a mortal human can participate in: 140.6 miles covered in a single day by swimming, biking and running. As epic as it is to participate in an Ironman, it may be even more daunting to plan and m...
070 - Change Management Mic Drops with Tim Creasey
Project Management Happy Hour - August 16, 2021 16:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsProject Managers are agents of change. Whether your project changes organizations, technologies, infrastructure or processes, the success of your project likely depends on *people* actually using your deliverables. But how much of your project is really focused on those people and helping them u...
069 - Project Management in an Alien Environment
Project Management Happy Hour - June 22, 2021 15:55 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsYou’re a PM and you have landed on a strange new world where you don’t know the industry, the organization the people or the subject matter. How do you get oriented enough to intelligently deliver a project? How do you succeed in this alien environment? In this episode, Kate and Kim talk abou...
068 - Interviewing PM’s: Inside the Mind of a Hiring Manager with Matt Henderson
Project Management Happy Hour - May 17, 2021 16:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsWhether you are hiring project managers or hope to get hired, do you know what hiring managers should be looking for? What’s going on in a hiring managers mind when they look at your resume and when they interview you? In this episode we are joined by Matt Henderson - a long time PMO manager ...
067 - What the heck is ITSM? And how is it like Improv?
Project Management Happy Hour - April 06, 2021 16:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsIf you are a PM working in or with a large enterprise, you may have heard of ITSM, or the ITIL framework. And you may well have been asked to create additional deliverables and go through some processes to support ITSM. But what is it? How does it work? Why is it good for organizations? And as a...
066 - How to be a consultant: Dealing with customers without having a nervous breakdown
Project Management Happy Hour - March 09, 2021 21:51 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsIf your project customers are external to your organization, you have a lot more to worry about than the success of your project. You also have the carry the weight of building and maintaining a relationship with your organization's customer. And if you do it wrong... you are toast! In this e...
065 - Can you keep a secret? Managing confidential information
Project Management Happy Hour - January 12, 2021 14:52 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsAs PM’s we are often privy to confidential information. How do you manage that info, even when you know it will impact your friends and colleagues? This week Kate and Kim share some of their experience managing confidential information - how to do it, and how to react when you or someone ...
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