Every project has a story – one that has knowledge to be gained, successes to emulate, and mistakes to avoid – but those stories are too often not shared. This Project Life is a weekly podcast where host Jeff Plumblee discusses what's really going on behind the scenes of projects from the leaders who manage them. Join us monthly for the live Community of Practice on Zoom, or listen to the podcast on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever podcasts are found.
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#144 - ChannelCON 2024: MSPWerks, Moovila, & Blacksmith Infosec
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher live at ChannelCON 2024 in Atlanta, GA. This episode, he speaks with MSPWerks, Moovila, and Blacksmith Infosec. Vendors interviewed: MSPWerks (00:37) Moovila (07:40) Blacksmith Infosec (19:54)
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#146 - 7 Figure MSP Live: ThreatStop, High Level, The 20
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher at 7 Figure MSP Live in Denver, CO. This episode, he speaks with ThreatStop, High Level, The 20. Vendors interviewed: ThreatStop (00:27) High Level (4:45) The 20 (9:14)
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#145 - ChannelPro Defend East 2024: Timus Networks, Excel Micro
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher live at ChannelPro Defend East 2024 in Iselin, NJ. This episode, he speaks with Timus Networks and Excel Micro. Vendors interviewed: Timus Networks (00:24) Excel Micro (06:15)
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#143 - ASCII Boston 2024 - Rythmz, SkySwitch, Synivate, & Enzioc
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher live at the 2024 ASCII Boston Conference in Newton, MA. This episode, he speaks with Rythmz, SkySwitch, Synivate, and Enzioc. Vendors interviewed: Rythmz (00:26) SkySwitch (10:23) Synivate (13:11) Enzioc (16:59)
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#142 - MJ Shoer, CompTIA Chief Community Officer
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ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher Joel Zaidspiner sits down with CompTIA Chief Community Officer, MJ Shoer, for a conversation about all the latest happenings at CompTIA, upcoming CompTIA events, and more.
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher live at the 2024 Ascii Conference in Schaumburg, IL. This episode, he speaks with Ringfree and Atro. Vendors interviewed: Ringfree (00:30) Atro (04:30)
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher live at the 2024 Pax8 Beyond Conference in Denver. This episode, he speaks with EasyDMARC, Ionos, Ostendo, Alcion, and SuperOps. Vendors interviewed: EasyDMARC (00:22) Ionos (04:05) Ostendio (08:01) Alcion (11:48) SuperOps (15:58)
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Episode 139 - 2024 RSA Conference, Part 3
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher live at the 2024 RSA Conference in San Francisco. This episode, he speaks with Fortra, ManageEngine, Next DLP, Sophos, Tenable, and ExtraHop. Vendors interviewed: Fortra (00:29) ManageEngine (05:03) Next DLP (09:51) Sophos (15:33) Tenable (23:59) ExtraHop (33:30)…
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Episode 138 - 2024 RSA Conference, Part 2
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher live at the 2024 RSA Conference in San Francisco. This episode, he speaks with ColorTokens, HackerOne, Malwarebytes, Veriti, Blumira, and We-Bridge. Vendors interviewed: ColorTokens (00:25) HackerOne (05:15) Malwarebytes (11:51) Veriti (21:32) Blumira (25:22) We-Bridge (32:56)…
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Episode 137 - 2024 RSA Conference, Part 1
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher live at the 2024 RSA Conference in San Francisco. This episode, he speaks with SkyHigh Security, Cyware, Radiant Security, Secureworks, and Zerofox. Vendors interviewed: Skyhigh Security (00:26) Cyware (09:56) Radiant Security (20:53) Secureworks (24:44) Zerofox (34:33)…
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Episode 136 - Ultimate IT Growth Conference 2024
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher live at the Ultimate IT Growth Conference in Dallas, Texas. This episode, he speaks with Salesbildr on what it can do to help MSPs save time, quote better, and improve efficiency, and with Jennifer Bleem of MSP Sales Revolution to discuss the Ultimate It Growth event and learn how her programs …
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher Joel Zaidspiner live at at Kaseya Connect 2024 in Las Vegas as he chats with Addigy about how they can help MSPs manage Apple devices, what Atakama can do to help close an important security gap, Kaseya's Partner First Pledge and what that means for their partners, how Empath can help upskill y…
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher Joel Zaidspiner live at Ascii in New Jersey as he chats with Hirexe on how they can help with staffing, IT Governance USA's entrance into the channel, new vendor Rotate and their holistic cybersecurity platform built for SMB, and how Infrassist can help MSPs scale. Vendors interviewed: Hirexe I…
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Voice of the Vendor - Robin Robins IT Sales & Marketing Boot Camp
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Join ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher Joel Zaidspiner at the Robin Robins IT Sales & Marketing Boot Camp in Nashville, Tennessee. This episode, he checks out what's new with Gradient MSP, what LiveWireCloud can do to help you grow, how Visionary 360 can help ConnectWise users save on administrative time, and with new AI platform Ha…
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Join ChannelPro vice president and associate publisher Joel Zaidspiner at N-Able Empower 2024 in Frisco, Texas. This episode, he chats with Rewst about their new integration with N-Able, new security initiatives with CyberFox, and what InSOC is doing to help drive MSP growth with their security soltions. Vendors interviewed in this podcast: Rewst C…
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Episode 131 - Channel Partners Conference & Expo 2024
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Recorded live at the 2024 Channel Partners Conference and Expo at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. This episode, ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher Joel Zaidspiner talks with iFax on taking digital faxing and document management to the next level, changes at Avant and their State of Disruption Report, what the Advancing Leadership N…
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Episode 130 - ThreatLocker Zero Trust World
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In this episode, ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher Joel Zaidspinner chats with some notable vendors at the event — including the CEO of ThreatLocker himself, Danny Jenkins. We learn about how MSPs are stepping up the way they think about security, ways to keep a growth mindset, and how to easily incorporate security awareness traini…
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Episode 129 - Kaseya, Zencontract, & SonicWall
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Join ChannelPro‘s traveling reporter Joel Zaidspinner as he visits with noteworthy vendors at NerdioCon 2024 on February 12-16. in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This episode ChannelPro Vice President and Associate Publisher Joel Zaidspiner chats with Kaseya on partner development, the latest product updates with Zencontract, and some exciting new…
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Arif Ansari of VentureWell: Portfolio and Project Management
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Arif Ansari, Director of Portfolio and Project Management at VentureWell, discussing how people think about project management, how to optimize the contributions of remote workers, and how to get requirements from people who don’t know what they want. They cover best practices for building a PMO and where project manag…
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Jeff Plumblee of Moovila: PM-Mastery Podcast Interview
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Walt Sparling, Host of the PM-Mastery podcast, interviews Jeff Plumblee of Moovila, a project manager, program manager, and fellow podcast host in the project management industry, the This Project Life podcast. This episode appears on both podcasts. The discussion begins with Jeff’s education, his work, what initially interested him about Moovila, …
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Community of Practice Live: Communicating the Value of PM, Resource Utilization, Tight Money, Prioritization, and more.
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Co-hosts Jeff Plumblee and Matt Stoltz were live on LinkedIn for our largest and most engaged CoP Live so far! There were several topics covered. The conversation starts with communicating the value of PM initiatives to executives and moves on to cost-cutting, supply chain management, the relevance of the PMBOK, effective stakeholder management, co…
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Marian Williams of Anthology: Program Management & Product Operations
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Marian Williams, Program Manager for Product Operations at Anthology, discussing her past work in hospitality and customer success and her current work in product operations. Marian talks about how customer success helped prepare her to work in product operations. Marian suggests how you can decide whether the PMP cert…
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Tim Parker: Managing Projects in the Rigging Industry
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Tim Parker, covering Tim’s family background in the rigging industry, how Tim almost ended up as a computer programmer, and what change orders can cost in a rigging project when the engineers keep important facts secret until the last minute. Tim tells of a nuclear project that went well and gives his final advice to n…
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David Sediles of Duracell: A Path of Growth and Perseverance
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David shares his career development from engineering design, to project management, to program management, and what he learned from backpacking, music, and dancing that helped him on the way. Notes: Host Jeff Plumblee interviews David Sediles, a Program Manager at Duracell. Key Takeaways: David started as a design engineer before and after graduati…
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Mike Psenka of Moovila: Transforming Resource Management, The Project Paradox, & Dynamic Forecasting
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Mike Psenka explains how the programmed integration of real-time data into project planning enables service and delivery organizations to interact with forecasts dynamically, for atomic-level accuracy of the necessary project resources to get to better margins. Notes: Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Mike Psenka, CEO of Moovila, a company that is disr…
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Community of Practice Live: Building Project Structure, Data Analytics, and More
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The participants share their experiences with establishing a new PMO and best practices for data analytics, risk, and project confidence. Notes: Co-hosts Jeff Plumblee and Matt Stoltz host this Community of Practice Live Event! The topic is establishing a PMO for the first time at an organization: What are the best practices and some of the challen…
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Jonathan Pu of Hinge: Product, Program, and Project Management
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Jonathan Pu, a Senior Project Manager at Hinge. Key Takeaways: Hinge is a dating app intended to help you find your person. It is owned by Match Group. Jonathan shares an example of his previous work at Moody’s. He contrasts product management and project management. Working at a startup is different from working at Mo…
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Hassan Osman of Cisco: Kickoff Meetings, Project Closures, & Hybrid Work
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Hassan Osman, PMO Director at Cisco. Hassan is the author of 16 non-fiction books on project management and general interests. The discussion centers on the steps to go through for a successful kickoff meeting and why you need to hold an internal kickoff meeting first. Jeff and Hassan discuss knowing the stakeholders i…
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Community of Practice Live Event: Part 2: Retrospectives and Communications
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Co-hosts Jeff Plumblee and Matt Stoltz host Part 2 of this Community of Practice Live Event! The topics were having effective retrospectives and documenting the lessons learned to retrieve later, how PMOs can communicate with impact, and whether the checklist approach is appropriate for a project. Key Takeaways: How do you make retrospectives and “…
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Community of Practice Live Event: Part 1: Team Assessment and Resource Management
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Co-hosts Jeff Plumblee and Matt Stoltz host this Community of Practice Live Event! The participants who spoke up include Aaron, Jay, Jesse, Jeff, and Kayla. The topics were assessing the capabilities and skills of project managers and team members, best practices for resource management, finding out which resources are overloaded and how to change …
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Jeff (a.k.a. u/Thewolf1970) of the Project Management Subreddit: Insights From the Mod
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TL;DR On this episode, we interview Jeff, a moderator from the 86K-member subreddit r/projectmanagement. He shares insights from the community's FAQs, explains why you shouldn't pursue the CAPM, shares his own experiences in project management, and *gasp* is challenged by automation. _______________________ This is an interesting one. We're speakin…
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Victoria Matthew of VentureWell: Social Learning, Communities of Practice, and Speaking Human to Human
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Victoria Matthew, Senior Program Officer at VentureWell. The conversation starts with social learning and Communities of Practice (CoPs). Victoria shares her thoughts on selling executives on the concept of CoPs, shares tips on facilitating a CoP, and reveals her worst and best project experiences.Listen in to learn ab…
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Sameer Chopra of Microsoft: The Need for Simplicity and Collaboration
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Sameer Chopra, Director of Emerging Healthcare Opportunities at Microsoft. The conversation starts with Sameer’s novel, The Work Ahead, which portrays project management and problem-solving with a unique twist and lessons that apply in life. Sameer shares an overview of the virtual work he does with his team. He recall…
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Community of Practice Live Event: Starting Your Own CoP, Justifying the PMO, New Process Communication
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Co-hosts Jeff Plumblee and Matt Stoltz host this Community of Practice Live Event! Jeff gave an overview of the principles of a community of practice and invited comments. He then introduced four questions for discussion: How do you manage project stakeholders and control communication? How do you justify the need to have a PMO? How do you communic…
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Ben Morabito and Jay Sturm of Irreverent Rogue: Straight-Shooting Leadership, Handling Bad Actors, and Defying PMO Failure
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Ben Morabito and Jay Sturm of Irreverent Rogue, about the leadership tools of project management. The conversation goes in-depth on the necessity of alignment between corporate strategy and the PMO, reasons PMOs may fail, knowing who the PM needs to talk to and when, and the importance of soft skills in project managem…
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Jeff Plumblee: What Happens When We Remove the PM?
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Host Matt Stoltz switches it up today to interview the regular host, Jeff Plumblee, on the theory vs. the practice of project management, and where people fit in. Jeff starts with a taste of theory and then moves into management. He says if you wonder about the value of a project manager, remove the manager and see what happens to your project. The…
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Dennis Young: Hard Truths About Project Management from a 40-year+ Industry Vet
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Dennis Young, founder of YCA, a project consulting firm. From his experiences as a US Marine, mining, construction, IT, and more, Dennis explains what shaped his view of project management. He shares how he only works in planning and control, why he schedules from the front instead of working back from a deadline, and …
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CoP Live: The Path to Business Cases & Knowledge Capture
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Co-hosts Jeff Plumblee and Matt Stoltz are live today for the second Community of Practice live event! The group discusses preparing a business case for executive approval, starting a project, and gathering subject matter experts and an executive sponsor. Jeff asks for the amount of detail that is wanted to start a project. The conversation moves t…
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Christos Ruci from Limbach: A CIO's Take on Project Management & Automation
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What does a CIO think of project managers? Forget your PMP. You're all a bunch of paper pushers... ...Or you know the business, the "why" behind projects, leadership, and the importance of understanding the impact of your projects. That's the value, and the perspective you'll need to bring if you want to have meaningful conversations with your seni…
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Ivett Hankoczy of Navy Federal Credit Union: The Pursuit (and Payoff) of Positivity
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Ivett Hankoczy, PMP, CSM, ITIL, Project / Portfolio Manager at Navy Federal Credit Union. Ivett has had project management experience internationally. She learns much from people with different viewpoints. Jeff and Ivett discuss how she manages her team and encourages positivity and collaboration, even during the pande…
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Blake Mallett from NMS Labs: Procurement, Supplier Management, and How to Navigate Around "The Way It's Always Been Done"
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Blake Mallet, Senior IT Project Manager at NMS Labs. Blake has a decade of project management experience, starting in the U.S. Navy. Jeff and Blake discuss the disastrous result of a company that moved without preparing for the move by vetting new local suppliers, and how Blake put the company back on track by moving t…
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Bernd Brandstaetter from IFA: What's Really Going on with the Supply Chain - A Perspective from Automotive Manufacturing
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Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Bernd Brandstaetter, Director of Project Management at IFA. Bernd shares his career highlights and what he loves about project management. He acknowledges it takes a thick skin. Bernd discusses the impact of the USMCA on supply chains, including the requirement of 75% local sourcing of steel. Jeff and Bernd note the se…
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Community of Practice Live Event: Exploring Project Risk and The Great Resignation
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Co-hosts Jeff Plumblee and Matt Stoltz are live today for the first Community of Practice live event!Jeff and Matt discuss with the group the meaning of project risk and how to respond to it through transference, acceptance, avoidance, or mitigation. Jeff and discussion group members Sunshine, Dan, Aaron, Kayla, Gabe, and others bring up stories of…
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Lauren Selley from Y Media Labs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Project Management
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Host, Jeff Plumblee interviews Lauren Selley, Director of Program Management at Y Media Labs. They discuss a variety of topics in program and project management. Besides managing programs, Lauren is a knowledge management evangelist. She also advocates for inclusivity in project management and getting women into tech. Lauren started in high school …
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Heather Abel from Komatsu Mining - Choosing the Right PM Tool for the $285 Million-Dollar Job
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Host, Matthew Stoltz, VP of Marketing, and “Bucky” Jobe, VP of Operations at Moovila, interview Heather Abel, project coordinator from Komatsu Mining Corporation, about Komatsu’s $285 million manufacturing facility project and new headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They discuss how autonomous project management technology has helped Komatsu stay…
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Kayla Williams from Benefit Harbor - Taking on a New PM Leadership Role: Directing Growth while Protecting Your Time
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Host, Jeff Plumblee, interviews Kayla Williams about project management and her career path. Kayla moved from the offices of auto dealerships to software account manager, implementation manager, product manager, and finally, project manager. She tells why project manager is the right job for her. She shares her notable successes, including a near-f…
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