PM Point of View
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PM Point of View
Welcome to Project Management Point-of-View (PM-POV). This podcast series gives you brief and insightful conversations with PM practitioners in a variety of disciplines. Host Kendall Lott draws on his experience as a PM, as CEO of M Powered Strategies and as former CEO of PMIWDC to explore how...
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The IMPACT Engine
The podcast features a panel discussion with Laura Barnard, the author of "The IMPACT Engine," and three professionals who have utilized her strategie...
PM Game On!
Host Kendall Lott, along with guests Galen Low and Mike Hannon, discuss the evolving role of project managers (PMs) in the age of AI, emphasizing the...
PM Discipline Integration in the Federal Government
Dive into the future of project management within the U.S. government in this engaging and insightful interview with key players from the USDA and NOA...
Risk and Resilience at the UMD PM Symposium (Revised)
Risk-- again! This episode with guests from the upcoming UMD Project Management Center for Excellence symposium is a thought-provoking discussion tha...
People in Projects at the UMD PM Symposium 2024
Heralding the annual arrival of the flagship UMD Project Management Center for Excellence symposium, this episode has 3 of the presenters in the Peopl...
Program Value Management
Challenged by the hosts, Kendall Lott and Mike Hannan, returning guest Steven Devaux takes his value break down structure (the "Golden Triangle") to a...
Asteroids
In this podcast episode, co-hosts Kendall and Mike are joined by guest Roy Mazel, a retired NASA project leader and guest lecturer. They discuss the P...
Let it Flow, Success without Force
In this episode, Kendall, Mike, and Wolfram Mueller discuss strategies to improve business workflows using the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Critica...
Getting Out of Our Own Way
The crux of any success? It isn't the plan, it isn't the desire, not even the WIIFM, its EXECUTION. And organizational change is no different. Today's...
PM Faceoff: Process vs Principles
So there we were at the 10th annual UMD PM Symposium, having the Great Debate of Process vs principles. Facing off were Crystal Richards, CEO of Mind...
Listener Questions Revealed!
Elevating the Conversation about Project Management, with a twist. In this episode cohosts Mike Hannan and Kendall Lott take on some Listener Feedback...
UMD PM 4.0 AI & Future for Project Managers
No Luddites here! Episode 3 of the UMD PM Symposium prequal and guests Al Zeiton, Marissa Brienza and Bill Brantley chat about the role of AI in Proje...
So you want to Agile
We all talk Agile, and sometimes we "say we wanna do agile", so this conversation is about the challenges of implementing Agile in different environme...
Critical Conversations
First, "do no harm"--seems like a good adage, and is consistent with our guest Kevin Coleman who discusses some tenets of his UMD PM Symposium present...
Managing an AI Project
Oh Boy, AI projects…they're the worst!! Exploding scope…the endless project. The scale of risk when something goes wrong can literally be exponential....
Value Integration in Project Management
Recognizing the importance of identifying "what is the work in front of us" co-hosts Kendall Lott and Mike Hannan discuss improved ways cracking scope...
Cognitive PM and Military Planning
Compound Security Threats. Sends a chill through us, yes? Our military expends huge effort in thinking about that future, long-term for planning, shor...
The Beauty of AHP
Analytical Hierarchy Process--check this as it is a method (and you can get tools) that absolutely help you with project prioritization. Co-Host Mike...
PM Techniques In Ukraine
Guest Sergiy Potapov and co-host Mike Hannan are at it again discussing precepts of TOC and Cynefin that connects with effective PM practices to produ...
Unleash Flow by Taming It…
Episode 100, where a theory based in manufacturing collides with the world of Knowledge Work (yeah, I'm talking about you, PMs) and we find a way to t...
PM Pessimist Optimist Synthesis
[6/10 1:30 PM] Kendall Lott "PM is BS!" says Ben Damman, our (highly successful) guest today. Well, maybe...the concern is we have become ceremonia...
Ecosystem Designer
PMs as leaders you own understanding the design of the org, the ecosystem you sit in. But to what purpose? Join me and cohost Mike Hannan as we hear f...
PM under Duress
PMs how about we get to look at our discipline in action? From the western border of Ukraine, Sergiy Potapov tells us how he chose to have impact by b...
Design Thinking
Design mindset, before you even get to design thinking, let's figure out the problem and check assumptions. Guest Charles Lambdin describes the need...
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...
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...
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 succe...
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 re...
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...
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 com...
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...
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,...
Expectations and Capacity
Kendall Lott and Mike Hannan with guest Hilbert Robinson explore exciting topics around product versus project management, setting expectations and ho...
Estimations Oh My!
Estimations - they are at the very core of PM activities, the ability to estimate, the reliance others have on our estimations, our continuing white w...
85. Covid & the Art of Fundraising: A Theatre's Tale
It was summer 2020. Covid-19 lingered on, with no end in sight. After months of canceled performances, funds were dwindling at Washington, DC's Shakes...
84. Pandemic at the University
How does a graduate program at a university - a program that has assiduously maintained a 100% face-to-face classroom ethos - swing into virtual reali...
83. Tips from Behavioral Science
Project management is about people: working with people, for people, through people. So it goes to reason that managers who have a deeper understandin...
2021 Update: How to Claim Your PDUs
Starting in January 2021, many of you reached out to us, wondering why you weren't able to claim a PDU for listening to PM Point of View® episodes. Th...
82. View from the C Suite - Part 2
Where do projects go wrong? What tendencies or approaches of Project Managers are NOT helpful to executives? What do they want their PMs to focus on m...
81. Project Teams in a VUCA Context from the 2020 UMD Symposium
Covid-19 has changed the way we operate on every level, including how we manage projects. It has made clear the fragility of our reality, and the fanc...