Project Management Office Hours

In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, Louise Gardner and PMO Joe discussed the PMO space and how to push the start button, entrepreneurship, strategies that have helped resolve organizational resistance to new PMOs and much more.

Passion goes a long way when you’re thinking about starting your own business. Louise shared how starting her own company has made her feel that she has a purpose. “I dance to work every day. I'm having an awesome time and I've never quite felt like that. There’s lots of positive things to be said about corporate life, but I'm having more fun than I've ever had right now.”

Louise started her PMO career as a Project Controller in the Water industry in the late 90's. Working with topflight engineering companies on large projects, she developed a passion for supporting project teams and creating transparency around project data. After moving to Sydney, Australia in 2004, Louise continued to work with Utilities across water, power, and transport before establishing Pledge Consulting in 2012.

“PMO is such a people centric Department team. It's about giving people a level of comfort that you are there to support them on the journey. And these things that they think can't be done shouldn't be done. Let's just deal with them one step at a time. Evolution, not revolution, is one of my favorite things” -Louise

Driven by passion for creating efficiency, quality and an overarching desire to help organizations get more value from their project controls and project delivery teams. Pledge Consulting’s mission is ‘To help organizations deliver value by doing projects better’.

Connect with Louise:

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/pledge-consulting-nsw-pty-ltd

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Pledgeconsulting

Twitter https://www.twitter.com/pledgeconsult

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Thank you to THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

The PMO Squad is a leading provider of PMO and Project Management services in the US. They assist clients building and improving PMOs, provide Project Management Consulting services, deliver custom Project Management Training and provide Project Management staffing services.
Learn more about The PMO Squad - www.thepmosquad.com

Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community!

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, Annmarie Curley and PMO Joe discussed how a top-down and bottom-up approach is necessary to bridge the strategy-execution gap and establish environments where teams can be successful without burning out.
Annmarie shares how teams spend so much of their time reacting and firefighting that they are unable to devote any time to learning new tools or methods to change how they operate. “It becomes a vicious cycle that are nearly impossible to break out of, and results in team members who are stressed, overworked, and overwhelmed.”- Annmarie Curley

One major contributor Annmarie mentioned is the type of chaotic environment, she calls “duct tape leadership” -- the patched-together systems that help teams meet short-term goals, at the cost of long-term stability and sustainability. The antidote to duct tape is intentional leadership-- taking time to establish the conditions your team needs to succeed.
Organizations achieve their mission through projects -- and the work that project teams accomplish is pivotal to the organization’s success. The project manager's ability to lead the team and transformation is a critical element. However executive leaders also have a responsibility to set the stage for the team’s success, and to ensure that the work being executed aligns with the strategic priorities.

“Revisiting the Agile Manifesto led me to think about the Project Leader’s Manifesto. The work that a project leader does isn’t easy - they often are working under duress, and it can sometimes feel like pushing a boulder up a mountain. However, I firmly believe that to be effective, project managers have to lead rather than manage which is why I call the role project leader rather than project manager.” “Organizations achieve their mission through projects -- and the work that project teams accomplish are pivotal to the organization’s success. Project Leader Manifesto focuses on people over process and placing attention on the power skills. ” -Annmarie

Connect with Annmarie:
Website: https://lnkd.in/enfMJ6XM
LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/gQUHz4W
Twitter: https://lnkd.in/eFYh56Sp

To catch up on previous episodes or see the guest list for upcoming shows visit the Project Management Office Hours website - https://lnkd.in/g_zP8gU8

Thank you to THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

The PMO Squad is a leading provider of PMO and Project Management services in the US. They assist clients building and improving PMOs, provide Project Management Consulting services, deliver custom Project Management Training and provide Project Management staffing services.

Learn more about The PMO Squad - www.thepmosquad.com

Efficiency, what does that mean to you? Since COVID, our jobs have been impacted with efficiency and prioritization. “As a Project Manager or any manager for that matter, we rarely leave the office with everything finished. There is always a list of things that you did not get to or an email you saw pop in just as you shut down the computer.” -Nigel Creaser.

Joe and Nigel discuss how to become more productive and efficient at the office from Nigel’s book Project Manager Productivity Hacks.

Nigel Creaser is the host of The Sunday Lunch Project Podcast where he conducts in-depth interviews with leading project professionals from around the world, working out what makes project managers tick.

“From my past shows on my podcast we’ve had talks about the different strengths you’ve got and how you can see why people who have certain strengths are asked to do something that is against their what they are comfortable with.”- Nigel Creaser. This puts us in to perspective that we all can learn by stepping outside of our boundaries and push ourselves.

Nigel Creaser is a Project and Program Manager with over 20 years of experience leading change for public and private organizations across a vast array of sectors and technologies. While publishing several books on Project Management and Amazon Alexa.

Connect with Nigel

Website: http://www.nigelcreaser.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelcreaser

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSundayLunchProject/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SundayLunchPM

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sundaylunchpm/

Thank you to THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

The PMO Squad is a leading provider of PMO and Project Management services in the US. They assist clients building and improving PMOs, provide Project Management Consulting services, deliver custom Project Management Training and provide Project Management staffing services.

Learn more about The PMO Squad - www.thepmosquad.com

Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community!

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours Luis will be joined by OneLink team to talk to Joe about their journey, company culture, gratitude and recently being named 2021 The Americas PMO of the Year Award Winner.

What does gratitude mean to you? “With this opportunity we have the chance to share knowledge and we all should be grateful for having the opportunity to be together while being apart.” -Danny. There is so much to take away from a virtual world, we can connect faster and easier these days all with a click of a button.

“For us, the most important thing within our company culture is the wellbeing of all our community. We call our employees Incredybles®️.” -Luis The PMO Team is led by Luis Guardado and he will be joined by team members Jose Quinteros, Ivette Torres, Daniel Recinos, Lorena Mora, Maria Arias, and Marta Moreno.

OneLink shares with us the steps they take to deliver the best results; 1. Keep it simple, 2. One stop shop, 3. Incredible management, 4. Innovation. This approach is what sets OneLink apart from the rest, by putting people first.

To discover more, visit:

OneLink: https://onelinkbpo.com/inicio/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/onelink

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onelinkbposv

Twitter: https://twitter.com/onelinkbpo

Thank you to THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

The PMO Squad was recently awarded the Platinum Medallion from the US Dept of Labor with the HIRE Vets program. They are one of only 8 Platinum Medallion recipients in Arizona.

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Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community!

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To catch up on previous episodes or see the guest list for upcoming shows visit the Project Management Office Hours website - https://www.thepmosquad.com/podcast

Don’t miss out! Join us with a special Guest, Chris Ronzio CEO of Trainual, on December 2nd at 11am AZ. He will join PMO Joe for Project Management Office Hours to chat about the business playbook, organization, and entrepreneurship.

Chris Ronzio is the founder and CEO of Trainual, a leading SaaS platform that transforms the way small businesses onboard, train and scale their teams. A two-time EY Entrepreneur of the Year Mountain Desert Region Award finalist and Phoenix Business Journal 40 Under 40 Awards recipient, Chris is on a mission to help business leaders document and delegate, so they have more time to focus on the things they love. A two-time EY Entrepreneur of the Year Mountain Desert Region Award finalist and Phoenix Business Journal 40 Under 40 Awards recipient, Chris is on a mission to help business leaders document and delegate, so they have more time to focus on the things they love.

Chris is the host of “The Fastest Growing Companies” and “Organize Chaos” podcasts as well as the author of the best-selling book “The Business Playbook - How to Document and Delegate What You Do So Your Company Can Grow Beyond You." https://www.thebusinessplaybook.com/ Chris has changed the way of organizing and structuring businesses.

To discover more, visit:

Trainual: https://trainual.com/ Serving businesses in over 170 countries, Trainual has been recognized on Inc.’s 2021 Best Workplaces list and landed #1 on AZ Central’s inaugural top workplaces list for 2021.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ChrisRonzio

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisronzio/?hl=en

Thank you to THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

The PMO Squad was recently awarded the Platinum Medallion from the US Dept of Labor with the HIRE Vets program. They are one of only 8 Platinum Medallion recipients in Arizona.
Learn more about The PMO Squad - www.thepmosquad.com

Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community!

Learn more about The PMO Leader - www.thepmoleader.com

To catch up on previous episodes or see the guest list for upcoming shows visit the Project Management Office Hours website - https://www.thepmosquad.com/podcast

In this episode of Project Management Office Hours Art García, Cathy Christian, and Curtis Brown join PMO Joe for an enlightening discussion about veterans, project management, and mentorship.

One of the themes from the show is a helping hand goes a long way. “Communicating, connecting and mentoring; you're building your network and the person you help today may be the person that helps you tomorrow.”- Art García. Mentorship can be one of the most influential parts to a successful military transition. Creating safe outlets for a new professional can make all the difference for them.

A great mentor supplies positive influence, guidance and the direction that the person wants to take. “It's about trying to get people to change their aperture. How can I get this person to open their aperture? Kind of think outside of the box. What are the things that you've done? And when you see the light bulb goes off.” -Curtis Brown

Art, Cathy and Curtis provide great leadership to veteran service organizations such as VPMMA, NOVA Job Outreach, PMI, and Onward to Opportunity. “You don't even recognize what you're doing, how helpful and impactful that is to the folks that you're helping. Because to you, it's just a conversation. It's just a natural thing that you're doing. Then when they come back and tell you what an impact it was, you’re like, oh! I had no idea.” -Cathy Christian

Art García, PMP is a program and project management lead at USAA, Career project manager and Co-Founder for NOVA jobs. He has served 20 years in the US Air Force and is a veteran.

Connect with Art García

https://www.linkedin.com/in/artgarciapmp/

Cathy Christian, PMP is the Vice President on the Board of Directors for Veteran Project Manager Mentoring Alliance (VPMMA). Now retired, was Vice President of Project Management at Prudential Financial. Serving in the U.S. Air Force for 7 years supervising and training 8 weapons directors on board the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)

Connect with Cathy Christian

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathycchristian/

Curtis Brown is the Director of Military Affairs for the Alamo PMI Chapter and Director of IT Project Management at Dynamic Advancement. Curtis is a Veteran having served for over 20 years within the United States Airforce. His passion is aiding transitioning and transitioned veterans and military spouses and building a network of support and guidance.

Connect with Curtis

https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-jbl-brown/


Learn more about veteran programs and lend a helping hand visit:

VPMMA https://thevpmma.org/

NOVA Jobs Outreach https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=NOVA%20Jobs%20Outreach&sid=o(n

Alamo PMI Chapter https://www.alamopmi.org/

Onward to Opportunity (O2O) https://ivmf.syracuse.edu/programs/career-training/


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The PMO Squad awarded: Platinum Medallion by the United States HIRE Vets program! The HIRE Vets Medallion Award recognizes a company or organization’s commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development.

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours Matt Hubbard and Mario H Trentim join Joe Pusz - PMO Joe to have an in-depth discussion about the Citizen Developer program.

Matt Hubbard works to bring citizen development programs to organizations using his 20+ years of operational excellence experience. The core of Matt’s success is his belief that process, technology, and people must be optimized together to achieve a lasting result.

“Generically, citizen development is when you empower business people who are not trained coders to solve business problems through the use of low-code/no-code tools, which are tools that basically assemble apps, instead of coding apps. You are dragging and dropping existing elements to assemble the app.” -Matt Hubbard

Mario Trentim is currently Citizen Developer at PMI.org, founder at TRENTIM.com, and Board Member at PMOGA.world. Mario is and Engineer with +15 years of experience managing global projects and implementing Project Management Offices in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.

“The development for project managers, is not just to build the finance applications or sales applications, it’s also expanding our boundaries outside technical projects to events, to human resource projects, finance projects, marketing projects, and more. When we think about citizen development, an agilest, business analyst, project manager, PMO manager, will be ten times more effective.” -Mario Trentim

Listen to Matt and Mario with PMO Joe discuss these topics further in E90 on Project Management Office Hours and do not forget to subscribe! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-management-office-hours/id1398533604

Want to discover more? Connect with the guests:

Connect with Mario Trentim
https://lnkd.in/d7pptwK2 https://trentim.com.br/

Connect with Matt Hubbard
https://lnkd.in/gdCsTdsn https://trackvia.com/

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Learn more about, Project Management with a Purpose. The PMO Squad helps you navigate your Project Management Journey.

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours Ricardo Vargas joins PMO Joe for an exciting discussion on the topics of Transformation, Crisis Management, Project Economy, passion in work-life balance, and more!

We talk about work-life balance and how we can manage having a life outside of work. The moment we reverse it to say it is a life-work balance is the moment we gain control and passion for what we are doing. Balance will fall into place because we realize what to prioritize. Ricardo talks about this further with Joe and describes “When you think that there is a work life balance, you are in some way saying that when you work, you don't live. So, you need to stop working to start living. And for me, in the end, there is only life. This is my passion component.” -Ricardo

“At the UN, the projects are driven by an extraordinarily keen sense of how you can improve people's lives through rebuilding cities after disaster or war-torn countries. On the other side, the environment is how can you help your client to save money? But in the end, both have the same intention to increase the efficiency of things we want to do.” -Ricardo

Specializing in implementing innovative global initiatives, capital projects and product development, Ricardo has directed dozens of projects across industries and continents, managing more than $20 billion in global initiatives over the past 25 years. Ricardo shares his expertise with millions of professionals around the globe through his “5 Minutes Podcast,” which he’s hosted since 2007. He has written 15 books on numerous topics and his influence on the sector was affirmed when he became the first Latin American to be elected Chairman of the Project Management Institute.

Listen to Ricardo Vargas and PMO Joe discuss these topics further in E89 on Project Management Office Hours and do not forget to subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-management-office-hours/id1398533604

Passionate about transforming ideas into action, Ricardo Vargas is a chief advocate in the project economy. Learn more and connect with Ricardo Vargas
https://ricardo-vargas.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardovargas
https://twitter.com/rvvargas
https://www.instagram.com/rvvargas/

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours Fatimah Abbouchi joins PMO Joe for another fast paced discussion! They discuss the topics of Mental Health and Anxiety, Work Transformations, and Agile in the Australian landscape, even swimming lessons!

“When I realized it was the mindset shift that was holding me back, the fear, the anxiety and the mindset I was able to actually get really good. And I think I've improved to a point, if you throw me in the deep end, I probably could survive. Unlike in high school, where I nearly drowned.” -Fatimah Abbouchi

PMO Joe and Fatimah talk about the capability of the workplace and how covid has transformed the way of working. “It needs to be about the capability that we want to bring in and how we bridge that gap between the agile environment and the non-agile environment.” -Fatima. With 90% of the Agile training being received online and paid for the individual itself, the capacity in the workplace is shifting, forcing us to have a different set of capabilities to deliver value back to the company.

On top of that, increasing productivity and collaboration in a remote world, but how might we do this? “I basically say it's about putting agility into governance, not putting governance into agile.” Fatimah Abbouchi
Listen to Fatimah and PMO Joe discuss further about these topics in E. 88 on Project Management Office Hours

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A CEO, writer, speaker and host of the ‘Agile Ideas’ podcast

Connect with Fatimah
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatimahabbouchi/
https://www.facebook.com/FatimahAbbouchi8/
https://twitter.com/fatimahabbouchi
https://www.instagram.com/fatimah_abbouchi/



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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, Marisa Silva, The Lucky PM, joins PMO Joe to discuss PMOs, Project Management in the education system, advice for project managers, navigating your journey throughout the project management world, and becoming The Lucky PM.

Marisa is the author of “Bedtime Stories for Project Managers” where it combines both the fairytale aspect of a bedtime story with relating it to real work project management scenarios. She is a Senior Consultant at Wellingtone, a UK-based leading project management consulting firm dedicated to enable step change in organizational PPM maturity.

PMO Joe and Marisa discuss the importance of Project Management in the education system. What is special about PM? What makes PM so valuable to learn in school for success in the future?

Marisa talks about how she came up with the title of The Lucky PM, I really do feel lucky to work in a profession that I love and the clients that I work with. The more you plan the luckier you’ll get -Marisa.

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Connect with Marisa through LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/theluckypm/
Visit https://www.linkedin.com/company/wellingtone/ to learn more about the Wellingtone Project

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