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The Digital Project Manager — 252 episodes

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The Collaboration Problem Most Remote Teams Ignore

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Why Project Management Is Becoming Everyone’s Job

3

I’m Building A Digital PM AI Agent Whether I Like It Or Not

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Why Public Speaking Is Becoming a Career Multiplier for Project Leaders

5

Why More Marketing Teams Are Choosing Boutique Agencies in 2026

6

Why AI Conversations Feel Fake (And How To Fix That)

7

No One Cares About Your Deck – Here's Why

8

You Don’t Need a New AI PM Tool—You Need to Fix the One You Have

9

How To Build In-Demand Skills At The Speed Of AI Disruption

10

Should You Care If Your Project Manager Is Certified?

11

AI For Kids: How Project Teams Can Build It Responsibly

12

Why Technical Teams Still Fail Without These Skills

13

Inside Logitech's AI Transformation: From AI Curiosity to Competency

14

Why the Biggest AI Winners Haven’t Been Founded Yet

15

Your Spreadsheet Can’t Do This: AI That Actually Knows Your Business (with CEO of Forecast, an Accelo Company)

16

How to Know When Your Team Is Truly at Capacity (And When to Hire)

17

Innovation vs. Risk: How a Former Mastercard Exec Designs AI Strategy

18

What NATO Taught Me About EQ in High-Stakes Transformation

19

Zapier’s Blueprint for Modern Project Management

20

The Four Pillars of Trustworthy AI—and Who Owns Them

21

The PMO’s Strategic Role in Digital Transformation

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Adapting Project Methodologies for AI Without Losing Control

23

What Non-Technical PMs Really Need to Know About AI

24

How to Fund Your Innovation Projects Without Venture Capital

25

How to Actually Measure AI’s Business Impact

26

Where AI Actually Helps Project Managers in Delivery Work

27

The Playbook for Creating AI Teammates That Actually Work

28

How to Manage Projects Like Investments (Not Just Deliverables)

29

Why Tracking Time Won’t Save Your Agency’s Margins

30

A Privacy-First AI Strategy: What It Looks Like and Why It Matters

31

Why Listening to Your Body Is a Leadership Superpower

32

How to Pivot into Healthcare Project Management (Without Starting Over)

33

How Building AI Products is Different—and Why Product Teams Need to Evolve

34

How Empathetic Communication Unlocks Innovation at Speed

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How Project Leaders Can Run Projects Like Founders

36

How to Lead AI Organizational Change in a Complex Enterprise

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How Project Leaders Can Close The Trust Gap In AI-Powered Projects

38

How to Know If Your Team’s Ready for AI in PM Software

39

How to Start a PM Career When Generative AI is Replacing Entry-Level Roles

40

Turning AI Experiments Into Agency Impact: Transforming Curiosity Into Measurable Results

41

How AI Leadership Shapes Project Delivery (and When You Need It)

42

Why Automating Everything is The Wrong Move (And What to do Instead)

43

Are You Tracking the Wrong Metrics? How AI Can De-Risk Delivery

44

Beyond the Billable Hour: How AI Is Making Time & Materials Irrelevant

45

How Can We Lead Creative Projects Now That AI Has Entered The Chat?

46

The Retro: Designing Your PM Career for More Pay and Purpose

47

The Retro: How to Negotiate a Raise as a PM (And Actually Get It)

48

The Retro: How Great PMs Tackle Interview Curveballs

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AI Is Amazing. So Why Does It Still Suck for Project Managers?

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The Retro: Why Time Tracking Sucks (And How to Make it Suck Less)

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How to Give Your New AI Tool or Process the Best Chance of Being Adopted

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The Retro: The AI Skills That Will Future-proof Your Career

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How Project Managers Can Thrive In Evolving Agency Models

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The Retro: How to Pass The PMP Exam Without Burning Out

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How To Build A Career As A Fractional PM

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The Retro: How 3 PMs Rebuilt Their Careers After Layoffs

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How To Use OKRs In Your Project To Amplify Its Business Impact

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The Retro: How to Negotiate for The Salary You Deserve as a PM

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How a Shared AI Mindset Can Drive Real Organizational Transformation

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The Retro: How to Get Promoted and Become a Senior PM

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How to Pivot into Project Management from Any Career Background

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The Retro: How to Transition into a Project Management Role

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How to Master the Delicate Art of Not Knowing Everything as a Technical PM

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What’s Coming Up for The Digital Project Manager and The DPM Podcast

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How to Create a Policy and Process for Ending Toxic Client Relationships

66

Beyond Prompts: How to Use AI for Smarter Project Management

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How to Build Impactful Rapport With Your Clients

68

How To Help Project Teams Embrace And Ace Project Presentations

69

The New Purpose of the PMO & Why Your Org Still Needs One

70

Top Traits of High-Performing Project Managers & How to Cultivate Them

71

How To Transition From Project Management To Consulting (And Alternatives)

72

How to Win at Your First 90 Days in a New PM Role

73

How to Get Your Team Out Of Process Documentation Hell Using AI & Automation

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How To Maintain The Strategic Vision At The Project Level

75

How To Identify & Fix Project Team Dysfuntion Using Teamangle

76

How to Reduce Project Stress Through Better Prioritization and Stakeholder Honesty

77

How to Unlock Predictable Growth with Data-Driven, GenAI-Enabled Resource Management

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How to Foster Collaboration Across Cultures in Distributed Project Teams

79

How To Set Boundaries & Establish Balance For Success As A Project Manager

80

How to Measure the True Impact of Your Projects

81

How to Choose the Right Volunteer Opportunity to Grow in Your PM Career

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How To Reframe Job Security As An Agency Professional

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How PM's Can Deliver More Strategic Value In A GenAI World

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How I Deliver Programs That Span The Digital And The Physical

85

Do Project Managers Make Good Consultants?

86

What I Wish I Knew Before I Took My First Director-Level Agency Role

87

Why EQ Is The Key To Successful AI-Enabled Projects

88

Why Volunteering Matters To Me (And Why It Should Matter To You, Too)

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How PMs Can Unify Marketing, Sales, & Customer Success to Deliver Impactful Projects

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How To Facilitate Remote Workshops With Physical Props

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How to Identify & Support Your Best Accidental Project Managers

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How to Build Connectedness & Improve Wellness in Your Project Team

93

How To Talk With Leadership Teams About Ownership & Accountability

94

Enterprise RACI: Effective Decision-Making at Scale

95

How Agencies Can Get The Most From Their Freelance PMs

96

Co-Regulation and Emotional Intelligence in Project Management

97

The Impact Of Return To Office On Project Managers

98

A Digital PM's Guide To Privacy In 2024

99

The Future of PMOs and How to Support Informal PMs

100

The Evolution of Agile Principles & How to Apply Them in Today’s World

101

How to Use AI to Tailor Your Status Reports for Your Audience

102

What If Project Management Was Taught In Grade School

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Can Behavioral Science Make Your Projects More Successful?

104

Not Your Parents’ PMO: How To Rebrand Your PMO And Double Your Success Rate

105

How AI Can Help PMs Deliver Feedback

106

You’re Using Notion Wrong: How to Set up PM Software for Serious Project Work

107

How To Plan Your PM Career with DPM Expert, Pam Butkowski

108

How To Land A Project Management Job With No Experience

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How Soft Skills Can Land You A Job In Project Management

110

How To Get Promoted & The Truth About Life As A Senior PM

111

How A Toxic Workplace Made Me A Better Project Manager

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How To Embrace AI While Keeping Your Projects Human

113

What Makes a Good PM & How Much Technical Knowledge You'll Need

114

How To Be A Political Strategist & Gain Popularity As A PM

115

How To Nail Agency Growth in the Fast-Paced Digital Era

116

How To Become A Better PM Through Peer Mentorship

117

How To Harness The Power Of Your Org's PMO In Digital Transformation

118

How Joining An Online Community Can Help You Grow As A PM

119

How to Make Agile Work Effectively at Agencies

120

How To Handle Project Changes When They Happen Without Your Approval

121

How To Run An Effective Retro & Apply Lessons Learned to Future Projects

122

Agency vs In-House PM: Which Role is Best?

123

How To Catapult Ahead In Your Career By Making Your Role Redundant

124

How To Make A Career Out Of What Interests You

125

How to Become A Great Facilitator & Why It'll Make You A Better PM

126

Finding Your Path To Project Management

127

How To Select Project Management Software The Right Way In 2023

128

How to Unlock Your Best PM Self Through Community

129

How We Used Agile And Blockchain To Build An Intelligent Vaccine Supply Chain

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How To Build Your Brand Through A PM Community

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How Digital Communities Help You Win At Work

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How To Develop The Next Generation Of Top Project Managers

133

How To Build Long-Term Loyalty With Virtual Contractors

134

The 3 Growth Levers Of Agile Strategy

135

Is Quiet Quitting Just Setting Clear Boundaries? (And What It Means For PMs)

136

What's A RAID Log (And How To Integrate One Into Your Project Workflow)

137

The Future Of The PMP, What It Lacks, And How To Fill The Gaps

138

Getting PMP Certified (And Why It Matters)

139

How to Optimize your Project Management Portfolio

140

Invisible PM Skills (And How To Hone Them)

141

How To Modernize RACI And Get Team Buy-In

142

Humanizing Rapid, Relentless Change

143

Getting A Seat At The Table Of Strategic Planning

144

Delivering AI Projects

145

Can Sales And Delivery Teams Get Along? (with Nick Wilkinson from Steamclock)

146

Developing A Change Mindset (with Melody MacKeand from Teamwork)

147

Why It’s Getting Harder To Land A PM Role

148

Measuring Busyness Vs Measuring Results

149

5 Tips For Managing Multiple Projects

150

The Role Of Project Management In Business Development

151

PMBOK 7th Edition And The PM Revolution (with Jesse Fewell)

152

PM Software: Shiny Objects or Gamechangers?

153

Is Digital PMing Really A Thing? (with Brett Harned)

154

Noticing Joy: Leading with Human Centered Project Management

155

3 Warning Signs Your Digital Transformation Is About To Stall

156

How Solid Program Management Helps Organizations Scale (with Sarah Hoban from Gemini)

157

Getting The Most Out Of A Software Demo (with Olivia Montgomery from Capterra)

158

How Project-Level Innovation Can Influence Broader Change (with Tim Creasey from Prosci)

159

Finding The Perfect Interlock Between Ops And PMO (with Alyson Caffrey from Operations Agency)

160

Can Being A Digital PM Get You Into The C-Suite? (with Julia Rajic from No Fixed Address Inc.)

161

Project Teams Without Project Managers: Exploring The PM Dilemma (with Julia Ryzhkova from Railsware)

162

Secrets Of A High-Performing Enterprise Delivery Team (with Dharma Mehta from Roku)

163

Can Psychology Make You A Better PM? (With Olivia Montgomery From Capterra)

164

How Will DPMs Influence The Future Of Work? (with Sarah Hoban)

165

How To Talk About Risk And Have Everyone Listen (with Shashwati Roy)

166

Making Your Value Visible As An Agency Project Manager (with Pam Butkowski from Hero Digital)

167

How To Make Content Creation A Mandatory Part Of Everyone's Job (with Alexa Alfonso from Crema)

168

How To Leverage People Data To Run High-Performance Project Teams (with Bentzy Goldman from Perflo)

169

How To Create A Psychologically Safe Team Environment And Why It Matters (with Samantha Schak from PM with Purpose)

170

How To Get The Raise Or Promotion You Know You’ve Earned (with Sally Shaughnessy from Aten Design Group)

171

Managing Stakeholder Dynamics: Why Meeting Strategy Matters (with Laura Lussier from 10up)

172

How To Keep Bad Meetings From Stalling Good Projects (with John Furneaux from Hive)

173

Do Project Management Certifications Matter In Digital? (with Candice Wyatt from Red Door Interactive)

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Using Enterprise Data To Communicate Impact & Celebrate Wins (with Agile Delivery Champion, Bill Moroz)

175

How To Build A Culture Of Data-Driven Estimation (with Marcel Petitpas from Parakeeto)

176

How To Build An Agency Sales System (with Lee Goff)

177

Humanize Your Team Resourcing Process To Boost Long-Term Culture (With Morgan Megannety From Skeleton Crew Creative Studio)

178

How To Find And Develop DPMs Who Can Own Technical Complexity (with Matthew O'Bryant from Oomph Inc.)

179

You Might Be Looking At Milestones All Wrong (with John Carter from TCGen)

180

How To Make Your Project Management Socially Intelligent (With Kim Wasson From IvyBay Consulting LLC)

181

How To Optimize Your Process With Workflow Management (with Marc Boscher from Unito)

182

Beyond The Prototype (With Douglas Ferguson from Voltage Control)

183

Working Back To Go Forward (With Jeff Gothelf From Gothelf.co)

184

Making Agile Work With Metagility (With David Bishop From Agile Worx)

185

Break It Down: Write A Great Work Breakdown Structure (with Emily Luijbregts from Siemens)

186

Use Project Scope Statements To Save Your Bacon (with Robyn Birkedal)

187

Leading Projects Beyond The Iron Triangle (with Susanne Madsen)

188

Why Curiosity Matters—And How To Cultivate It (With Dr. Diane Hamilton From Tonerra)

189

Putting Developers In Front Of Clients (with Michael Luchen from Crema)

190

Making Career Transition Work (with Dr. Eric Wright from Vets2PM)

191

How To Create Agility In Projects (with Dimitar Karaivanov from Kanbanize)

192

Getting Things Done Right (with Michael Luchen from Crema)

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How To Build Your PM Toolkit (with Sally Woolston from Nzime)

194

Project Economy (with Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez from GSK)

195

Risky Business (with Kiron Bondale from World Class Productivity)

196

Project Manager Or Project Leader? (with Rebecca Germond from FCV Interactive)

197

Why Should I Trust You (with Mike Clayton from OnlinePMCourses)

198

How To Project Manage A Corporate Website Build (With Rich Butkevic From Project Zendo)

199

Scaling Agile (With Giovanni Asproni From Zuhlke Engineering Limited)

200

Onboarding The Right Way (With Sarah Hoban From Booz Allen Hamilton)

201

How To Get Website Content From Clients (With James Rose From Content Snare)

202

Management Styles (With Tucker Sauer-Pivonka From Crema)

203

Give Your Colleagues Better Feedback (With Ryan Schaefer From Viget)

204

How To Manage Stakeholders (With Kelly Suter From Mirum Agency)

205

Managing Project Budgets And Profitability (With Tomislav Car From Infinum)

206

SMART Project Objectives (With Mackenzie Dysart From Reason One)

207

Switching From Waterfall To Duration & Price Contracts (With Tucker Sauer-Pivonka From Crema)

208

Managing A 2-Week Project (With Jenna Trunzo From Globant)

209

Burn Baby, Burn (With Lynn Winter From Manage Digital)

210

Managing A Portal Web Build (with Rebecca Germond from FCV Interactive)

211

New Project Management Highlights, Articles & Podcasts (With Robyn Reynolds From Freelance Producer)

212

Project Management & The New Business Process (With Peter Levitan From Saatchi & Saatchi)

213

How To Plan An Agile Sprint (With Alexa Huston From Crema)

214

Because I'm Worth It (with Tucker-Sauer Pivonka from Crema)

215

How To Get Into Project Management (with Suze Haworth)

216

Start Your Projects Right (with Suze Haworth)

217

Happy Holidays For Everyone (with Mackenzie Dysart from Reason One)

218

Nailing Requirements (with Kelly Suter From BI Worldwide)

219

Being A More Productive PM (With Laura Bosco)

220

Controlling (Scope) Creeps (with Suze Haworth)

221

Don’t Keep “Doing The Project Dishes” (With Patrice Embry)

222

Manage Your Agile Teams Without Them Knowing (With Sarah Hoban From Booz Allen Hamilton)

223

Colouring In The Project Lines (With Maik Stettner From EA Games)

224

Make An Agile Contract That Works (with Alexa Huston from Crema)

225

Master Art Of Finishing Projects Well (With Patrice Embry)

226

Rules For Remote Leadership (with Wayne Turmel from Remote Leadership Institute)

227

Pimp Your Agile Ride (with Alexa Huston from Crema)

228

Save Your Project With A Project Initiation Document (with Maik Stettner from FCV Interactive)

229

Stop Pointing Fingers—Use A RACI Chart (with Suze Haworth)

230

DPM Podcast: Make Sense Of Your Project Manager Responsibilities (With Patrice Embry)

231

Make Your Status Reports Useful (with Robyn Reynolds)

232

Managing Expectations The Right Way (With Natalie Semczuk from Talkanatalk)

233

Make Your Sprint Retrospectives Awesome—Here’s How (With Alexa Huston From Crema)

234

Productivity Hacks Beyoncé Would Be Proud Of (with Tucker Sauer-Pivonka from Crema)

235

Get Your Bearings On A New Project (with Joanna Leigh Simon)

236

Made To Lead (with Karl Sakas from Sakas & Company)

237

Get More Stuff Done As A Project Manager (with Cedric Waldburg from SendTask)

238

Are you Really A Good Project Manager? (with Lina Calin from Forest Made)

239

What You Can Stop Doing On Your Projects (with Patrice Embry)

240

Are You Leading Your Projects - Or Just Managing Them? (with Colin Ellis)

241

Introducing Dear DPM – Anonymous Advice For Digital Project Managers (With Robyn Reynolds)

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Lessons Learned & Tales Of A Remote Project Manager (with Natalie Semczuk from Talkanatalk)

243

Making Process Change Work (with Alexa Huston from Crema)

244

How To Get The Best From Your Development Team (with Kelly Suter from Irish Titan)

245

How To Build Strong Relationships With Clients & Teams (with Lina Calin from Forest Made)

246

Artificial Intelligence & The Future of Project Management (with Dennis Kayser from Forecast)

247

How To Be An Invisible Project Manager (with Justin Handler from O3 World)

248

Building & Scaling Project Management Teams (with Brian Kessman from Lodestar Digital)

249

Project Management Best Practices: What You Should Be Doing Each Month (with Joanna Leigh Simon from The Heads of State)

250

What Exactly is a Digital Project Manager? Debunking The DPM Name Game (round table discussion)

251

Project Management Hacks (with Natalie Semczuk)

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