Episode 39: Organizational Project Management Maturity Models (OPMMM)

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Organizational Project Management Maturity Models (OPMMM) are the focus of today’s episode of The Project Management Podcast™. We are looking at what they do for you as a PM, for your company and we give you an executive overview over four of these models. If you have participated in our recent book giveaway, you can tune in to hear, if you have won one of these two books: Neal Whitten's No-nonsense Advice For Successful Projects or Essential People Skills for Project Managers.

Helpful Resources, News and Events:

- PMI Registered Education Providers
- Our previous sponsor: University of California Irvine
- Villanova University
- Stanford Advanced Project Management
- GP3rd from Brazil

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Episode 38: PRINCE2™, PMBOK®, PMP® and Controlling Chaos

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In this episode we are giving you great content and lots of fun! First, we go in-depth into our one and only helpful resource, where we discuss an article & presentation from Jay Siegelaub, PMP from www.impstrat.com. In this article, Jay shows how PRINCE2™ can complement your PMP®. The main topic of the show is an interview with Dina Henry Scott from Controlling Chaos, another great podcast about project management that you can find at www.controllingchaos.com. And don't forget to participate in our book giveaway: Brian Irwin (last week's interview guest) and the publisher of his upcoming book on politics have donated two books for us to give away: Neal Whitten's No-nonsense Advice For Successful Projects and Essential People Skills for Project Managers. Listen to the announcement to learn how you can win a copy.

Helpful Resource:

"How PRINCE2™ Can Complement PMBOK® and your PMP®"
- Article from 2006
- Presentation from 2004

Link to the Project Manager Suicide article mentioned at the very end of the show:

- Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation

Episode 37: Project Politics? We don't have no Project Politics!

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In this episode, The Project Management Podcast™ is demystifying the "dirty" business of Project Politics. In our interview with Brian Irwin, President of PM Team Dynamics (www.pmteamdynamics.com), we discuss why we have politics on projects and what we as project managers can and must do in order to use politics as an opportunity to make our projects succeed. Brian and the publisher of his upcoming book on politics have donated two books for us to give away: Neal Whitten's No-nonsense Advice For Successful Projects and Essential People Skills for Project Managers. Listen to the announcement following the interview to learn how you can win a copy. We also have a survey on the website that we'd like you to invest 3 minutes of your time in and and we look at upcoming project management seminars around the world.

Our Interview guests Brian Irwin suggests the following two books:

- Neal Whitten's No-nonsense Advice For Successful Projects
- Waine Strider: Powerful Project Leadership

Helpful Resources, News and Events:

- Power, Politics And Influence In Projects (Johannesburg, South Africa, June 27-30, 2006)
- Project management for construction companies (NE England, 2006)
- 1° Seminário de Gerenciamento de Riscos do Distrito Federal (Brasilia, Brazil, June 20-21, 2006)
- Successful Project Management Seminar (Dublin, Ireland, June 27, 2006)
- Project Management Office Summit (San Diego, USA, June 28-29, 2006)

Episode 36: Who you gonna call? The eBusiness SIG!

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If you manage any eBusiness projects then today’s episode of The Project Management Podcast™ is going to be right up your alley, because "Who you gonna call?" when you need a worldwide support network of eBusiness project specialists? That’s right, you are going to call the PMI’s eBusiness SIG. Our interview with the SIG's Michael Yinger will introduce this great group of people to you. We also have a survey on the website that we'd like you to invest 3 minutes of your time in and and we focus on one single Helpful Resource, an article from the CIO magazine.

Helpful Resources, News and Events:

- When failure is not an Option

Episode 35: Improve your Team's Skills with CAPM® - Interview with Frank Reynolds

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In today's episode of The Project Management Podcast™ we feature an interview with Frank Reynolds, Project Management Consultant, about the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®). The CAPM® is the PMI's certification for team members, junior project management practitioners or students with an interest in project management. Frank talks about what the exam is like, what the benefits of the CAPM® are and in particular, how an organization will benefit, when its resources who work on projects are CAPM® certified. We have our usual helpful resources and you can find out, if you have one one of two copies of Gerard Hill's book The Complete Project Management Office Handbook.

Helpful Resources, News and Events

- First International Athens Conference on PM best practices, July 1st, Athens, Greece
- Gantthead's Project Management Roles & Responsibility Framework (free signup required)
- CAPM® certification information