#58 Rich Maltzman and Jim Stewart, The Project Planning Meeting Guys

In this episode, we talk to Rich Maltzman and Jim Stewart about their book How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings: A Practical Guide to Ensuring Project Success Rich Maltzman PMP, has been an engineer since 1978 and a Project Management supervisor since 1988, including a recent 2-year assignment in The Netherlands in which he built a team of PMs overseeing deployments of telecom networks in Europe and the Middle East. His project work has been diverse, including projects such as the successful deployment of the entire video and telecom infrastructure for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, to the 2006 integration of the PMOs of two large merging corporations. As a second, but intertwined career, Rich has also focused on consulting and teaching, having developed curricula and/or taught at:     Boston University’s Corporate Education Center     Merrimack College     Northern Essex Community College     University of Massachusetts – Lowell web: http://earthpm.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/exclaim Jim Stewart PMP has been a project manager for twenty-five years and since 2003 has been independently providing consulting, training and mentoring. A PMP since 2001 and Certified Scrum Master since 2013, he contributes by helping organizations increase their project maturity and best practices. In 2019, he received three agile certifications: PMI-ACP, IC-Agile coach and SAFe (Scaled Agile.) He is currently a partner in The Agile Collaborative which provides agile consulting and training. web: https://jpstewartconsulting.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimstewartpmp