For International Women’s Day, Projectified® hosts a roundtable with three women project leaders to discuss what it’s currently like for women in project management, how teams benefit from diversity and how organizations can better support women leaders, plus questions they had for one another as fellow project leaders.Our guests include Janete Faustino, PMP, PfMP, portfolio management leader of operations strategy and performance, TAP Air Portugal, Lisbon; Bharti Ochani, PMP, IT project manager, Halian, Dubai; and Maeve O’Brien, project manager, DDB, Chicago.Key themes[02:00] Three women project leaders on the state of women in project management[05:00] The benefits of diverse teams[06:16] Top skills for project managers: stakeholder management, accountability and conviction[09:43] Ways organizations can support women leaders[13:22] How do you keep moving forward in the face of obstacles on projects?[18:54] Advice to women project leaders: Network, be the driver of your own career, be genuine
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Projectified[R] is your guide to the future of project management. Created by Project Management Institute, this podcast is for people who lead strategic initiatives and collaborate on teams to deliver value to their organizations. It features dynamic thought leaders and practitioners who share their real-world experiences and expertise to inform, inspire and prepare you for success.
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Folge vom 08.03.2023What It’s Like to Be a Woman in Project Management
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Folge vom 18.01.2023Fintech Innovation and Risk ManagementFinancial services companies—from established giants to new startups—face disruption from all sides. And as organizations explore new innovations to meet evolving customer needs, they must do so while considering risk management. We discuss this with: Ashley Butao, PMI-ACP, PMP, project manager, Capital One, Toronto: Butao discusses the biggest disruptions she’s seeing in the financial services sector, how agile approaches allow her teams to experiment and adapt fast, and how knowing your organization’s risk appetite can help teams balance innovation and risk management.Stanley Jacob, PMP, chief executive at Stanbic IBTC Financial Services Limited, and VP of the Fintech Association of Nigeria, Lagos: Jacob talks about why teams must be constantly encouraged to innovate—and exposed to new innovations—plus the must-have skills for project leaders in financial services: knowledge of regulations and design thinking.
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Folge vom 04.01.2023Project Management Tips for 2023—and Lessons Learned From 2022As we kick off 2023, project leaders are looking ahead to new challenges and opportunities as well as looking back at what they accomplished in 2022. Projectified® reconnected with previous guests to discuss the biggest changes they have seen in the world of projects over the last year, their top lessons learned, plus what they’re excited about—and the skills project managers need to succeed—in the year ahead. Guests include Elton Soares, PMP, project manager, General Electric, Florianópolis, Brazil; Nontobeko Mathenjwa, project manager, South African National Roads Agency Limited, Johannesburg; Kierstin Gray, PMI-ACP, PMP, program director, Argodesign, Brooklyn, New York, USA; Manuel Segura Pérez, PMP, head of project and construction management, Repsol, Madrid; Malong Dong, PMP, enterprise portfolio manager, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney. Key Themes [02:05] Changes in 2022: an increasing focus on delivering value[04:59] How project leaders can adapt to changing stakeholder involvement and expectations[12:32] Tips for 2023: improving communication skills and team agility[17:07] How teams can build resiliency and embrace new tech and ways of working
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Folge vom 30.11.2022Making Project Portfolio Decisions—And Getting Buy-InTo deliver an organization’s strategic objectives, project leaders must be able to look across the portfolio and decide which projects provide value and should be pursued, which go on the back burner and which are abandoned entirely. We discuss this with:Sunando Chaudhuri, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, director of IT, Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company Group, Abu Dhabi: Chaudhuri discusses why project leaders must understand their organizations’ goals to best prioritize projects, the different types of business value projects can deliver—and how that factors into project portfolio decisions—along with ways project managers can keep executive leaders aligned, even in the face of personal agendas and pet projects.B. Firat Dengiz, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, program leader, Turkish Aerospace Industries, Ankara, Turkey: Dengiz discusses the metrics and data he considers when making project portfolio decisions, how he factors stakeholders into his decision-making process and ways to build buy-in from the C-suite. Key themes[02:57] The different ways to calculate business value [04:14] Ways to manage pet projects and personal agendas[07:10] Ensuring project portfolio decisions align with organizational strategy[10:28] Metrics to consider when prioritizing project portfolios[12:01] Engaging stakeholders to build support for decision-making[14:38] Tackling challenges project managers face when prioritizing portfolios[16:36] Determining how to build buy-in with different C-suite leaders