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Project Management Happy Hour — 138 episodes
132: Why Your Most Supportive Stakeholder is Ruining your Project, with Dawn Mahan
131: Don't be the PM everyone hates, with Rachel Losser
130: Rigged bids, fake deadlines, and going 181x over budget
129: How Credibility Starts with Curiosity, with Noel Nicole Ransom
128: Your project can't possibly be as bad as working for Mr Beast, Part 2
127: Your project can't possibly be as bad as working for Mr Beast, Part 1
126: "What's your AI Strategy?" Handling the Executive who wants AI in everything
125: How to survive the AI landscape as a PM with PMI's Dr Kelly Heuer
124: Drowning in Tasks: How Successful PMs Organize the Chaos
123 - Hungry Hungry HPPOs - managing loud personalities with Evan Unger
122 - Kate puts Kim through the worst meeting hells our listeners could dream up: a PM HappyHour role play
121 - Top Shelf Replay: Embracing the Escalation
120 - How smart teams talk themselves into Failure, with Dr. Bill Brantley
119 - TSR: They told me I'm 'too nice'??
118 - PM Turf Wars: Sharing your projects with other Project Managers
117 - Top Shelf Replay: Say No by Saying Yes
116 - How to quit your job and completely fail as a PM contractor
115 - Top Shelf Replay: Trust Bricks
114 - Happy Hour Chatter: What PMs Really Do, Fear in Decision-Making, and Lessons from Going solo
113 - Top Shelf Replay: Stage direction in the boardroom
112 - Burnout: when a 500k job isn't worth it, with Norlander Wilson
111 - Top Shelf Replay: How do you start a hard conversation?
110 - Are you defining project success wrong? Most PM's do! With PMI's Dave Garrett
109 - Top Shelf Replay: The Wolf - how to take over broken projects
108 - Why Risk Management? Future You Will Thank You
107 - Top Shelf Replay: The Closer - Avoiding Project Acceptance Exception
106 - Finish Strong: Why the End of Your Project Matters Most
105 - Top Shelf Replay: How to Deal with Stupid Executive Asks
104 - The one meeting that will make or break your project
103 - Lessons not Learned: State of Maine HR System Project Debacle
102 - Kim's first day working for the Empire: Kate runs another Project Management role-play
101 - The Project Behind: Not Impossible Labs with Mick Ebeling
100 - Retrospective: Our 100th Episode
099 - The Iron Triangle of Getting a PM Job, with PM Career Coach, Kayla Quijas
098 - Don't Eat the Prickly Pears: Learning how to prioritize with James Louttit
097 - PMO: Friend or Foe?
096 - Design thinking: don't take things at face value or you will face plant, with guest Erik Rueter
095 - The 5 Foundational Behaviors for Developing Informal Authority, with Kory Kogon of Franklin Covey
094 - Agile vs Waterfall Smack-Down!
093 - Rising from Tactical PM to Strategic Advisor, with Gregg Richie and Ralph Kliem
092 - Goblins in the room! Managing meeting misbehaviors, with Rich Maltzman
091 - The Perfect Status Report: How to measure percent complete
090 - How to tell other people what to do
089 - Reorgs and Restructurings: sailing the waves of organizational change chaos
088 - The CHAOS Report: Measuring project failure
087 - Creative decision making: do you have the right 4 voices in the room? with Teresa Lawrence
086 - The project behind a Disaster Response, with the ITDRC
085 - Deciding on how to make good Decisions, with Kandis Porter
084 - OH, We Forgot About Change Management! What to do when you get caught with your ADKAR down, with Tim Creasey
083 - The 30 Minute Executive Meeting: Make it count
082 - The Project Behind a Tech Startup, with Pete Bernardo from Punchlist
081 - The Project Behind an Emergency Covid Vaccination Site, with Aaron Bellinger, PMP
080 - First PM on the Beach: How to succeed when you are the first Project Manager in your organization
079 - Welcome to the Dungeon! Kate and Kim do Project Management RPG (D&D)
078 - Recommending Change Without Getting Chased out the Door
077 - Behavioral PM: the Feakonomics approach to project delivery with Dr. Josh Ramirez
076 - Imposter Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment
075 - Top Tips from a Project Management Coach, with Heather Gates
074 - The Project Behind a Movie
073 - A 12 Pack of Alignment Hacks with Tim Creasey - Part 2
072 - A 12 Pack of Alignment Hacks with Tim Creasey - Part 1
The Project Behind an Ironman Triathlon with Paul Huddle, Senior Regional Director for the Ironman Group
070 - Change Management Mic Drops with Tim Creasey
069 - Project Management in an Alien Environment
068 - Interviewing PM's: Inside the Mind of a Hiring Manager with Matt Henderson
067 - What the heck is ITSM? And how is it like Improv?
066 - How to be a consultant: Dealing with customers without having a nervous breakdown
064 - Getting into - or out of - Project Management, with Ben Aston of The Digital Project Manager podcast
063 - Candid Conversations with a Project Management Recruiter, with Norma Gutierrez
062 - Do I really need a PMO? (Part 2 of 2)
061 - Do I really need a PMO? (Part 1 of 2)
060 - Say-Do-Say: Fundamentals of Project Communication
059 - Crying Happens
058 - Shut-in but not Shut-down: Managing Projects and Teams from Home
057 - ADKAR: It's not a trap! Change Management can save your mission
056 Don't buy the bias! Managing bias in project management
055 - A slice of Thankfulness from Kate and Kim
054 - How to be a Project Manager: Kate and Kim get interviewed by a PM student about breaking into the field
053 - What if I told you that you were a PM all along?
052 - Who owns this baby when I'm done? Planning for deliverables handover
051 - They told me I'm "Too Nice?!" Dealing with inactionable feedback
050 - Project Financials 101: A quick and dirty overview of how money affects projects
049 - How to Call BS without getting Sh#t upon
048 - Brand Yourself with Sonia Mundra
047 - Project Management at Burning Man: Managing Volunteers, with Kayla Glenn
046 - Process, Data & Maturity: is it BS or does it really matter?
045 - Entrepreneurial Project Management with Rolondo Talbott
044 - Dear Project Diary: Project (b)logging to keep your head straight
043 - How to be "The Wolf" - Taking over broken projects
042 - The Closer: Avoiding Project Acceptance Exceptions
041 - Witness me! Justifying Project Management
040 - I'm a WHAT?! What's the point of personality assessments?
039 - Burning Questions: A Trick or treat bag of listener mail
038 - Charter? Huh! What is it good for? (absolutely every project)
037 - Transform from Project Manager to Project Leader - with Naomi Caietti
036 - PMO - What is it really? And how do I run one?
PM Happy Hour Membership - Helping new PMs "How to PM"
PM Happy Hour Membership - Painless, easy PDU's!
035 - Kickass Martial Arts Lessons for Project Managers
034 - PM Superhero Smackdown! Kate and Kim share lessons from their favorite movie PMs
033 - Lessons from Interviewing 50 Women PMs in 50 days - a chat with Elise Stevens
032 - Project Management Thunderdome! Internal versus External Project Managers
031 - Crucial Conversations part 3 - Stepping in and taking the lead
030 - Crucial Conversations part 2: Oh, man it just got difficult!
029 - Stop the Scope Creep! Using Change Control to keep the monsters at bay
028 - Embracing the Escalation: raising visibility without raising your blood pressure
027 - Crucial Conversations: Part 1 - Oh, man it just got crucial
026 - Mastering the Mastermind: facilitating small groups for big results
025 - The Last Move - a little bit of game theory for your projects
024 - How to Run a Meeting - and not waste everyone's time
023-Learning to Swim: Getting oriented in a new organization without going under
022-Getting to Yes: Negotiation for non-negotiators (part 2 of 2)
021-Getting to Yes: Negotiation for non-negotiators (part 1 of 2)
020-An Influence Toolkit: Getting stuff done without authority
019-Stage Direction in the Boardroom
018-What I wish I'd known when I started Project Management
A05-PM Appetizer – Weekly Roll-up Scheduling
017-Working with Creatives
A04-PM Appetizer - Be the CEO of your Project
016-Story Time! Better communication through narrative
015-Meet your Mentor! with PMO Joe
A03-PM Appetizer-Building Trust with "Trust Bricks"
014-Condition RED! Breaking bad news to your stakeholders
013-Don't guess! Plan your project with SCIENCE using Monte Carlo analysis
012-Sassy or Assertive? Women in Project Management
011-A love letter to my RAID log
010-The Sweet Irony of Failed MS Project Server Implementations
A02-PM Appetizer – Dealing with Project "Yellow Lights"
A01-PM Appetizer – Saying "no" by saying "yes"
009-5 Things your technical architect secretly wants to yell at you
008-5 Things that only your Communications BFF will tell you
007-How to respond to "stupid" executive asks
006-The First 5 questions to ask whenever you start a new project (BONUS!)
005-The First 5 questions to ask whenever you start a new project (part 5 of 5)
004-The First 5 questions to ask whenever you start a new project (part 4 of 5)
003-The First 5 questions to ask whenever you start a new project (part 3 of 5)
002-The First 5 questions to ask whenever you start a new project (part 2 of 5)
001-The First 5 questions to ask whenever you start a new project (part 1 of 5)