The Project Management Podcast

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Play Now: Good news for all listeners of The Free PM Podcast out there: Your favorite business podcast is now available on Spotify! This means that if you hold a certification from Project Management Institute (PMI)® then you can start earning your PDUs right where you listen to your favorite music. Note: If you have a paid subscription to The Premium PM Podcast then nothing changes for you because Spotify only accepts free podcasts.

Play Now: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam: PMP Exam prep : Karthik Ramamurthy, Sripriya Narayanasamy and Cornelius Fichtner In this interview we welcome Sripriya Narayanasamy (LinkedIn Profile) and Karthik Ramamurthy (LinkedIn Profile) who are the authors of the book Say Yes to Project Success. in 52 short and entertaining chapters the book gives actionable advice to project managers on the most common issues we are faced with on pretty much every project. This interview was recorded ad the hectic and fantastic Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Here is the book's abstract Are you under pressure to deliver? Is your life made tough by shortened schedules, tight budgets, skills gap, incomplete scope, and demanding stakeholders? Do you need help in the form of proven practical tips and techniques to help you confidently deliver project success? This book will certainly help you. What’s inside? Superb set of 52 proven project success keys. Unbeatable breadth of insights: 108 experts, 2000+ projects, 119 countries Comprehensive solutions to the top 20 global project failure factors Coverage of waterfall, hybrid and agile methodologies in 54 industries Extensive discussions on soft skills, leadership and communication Situation, impact, and resolution presentation technique Storytelling approach for easy understanding We have chosen 4 chapters from the book ("Great Catches", "Last Mile Connectivity", "Fun with Risks", and "Feed me a Sandwich") in order to review them together. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Cornelius Fichtner: In this episode of The Project Management Podcast™, we want you to say ‘yes’ to project success. Hello and welcome to The Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com. I am Cornelius Fichtner. Podcast Interview Cornelius Fichtner: We are coming to you live from the hectic and fantastic 2018 PMI Global Conference in Los Angeles. And with me right now here in the hallways are two guests. I have Karthik Ramamurthy and Priya Narayanasamy with me here today. And since you all know that I only have one microphone for one guest, we’re splitting them up. Karthik is here first with the headset on. Good morning, Karthik! Karthik Ramamurthy: Good morning, Cornelius, and I like the freedom of first not talking over each other. Cornelius Fichtner: Alright! How is the conference going for you so far? Because in the opening, I said we are at the hectic and fantastic global conference. You chose ‘hectic’, why? Karthik Ramamurthy: Absolutely! So many great sessions. So many great speakers. First of all, it has been difficult to choose someone’s sessions. Also for Priya and me, we had two topics selected. One a workshop on decision making and another on eight practical risk management success secrets. And PMI selected us to do encores for both so four presentations in three days plus attending all those great sessions, hectic is the word. Cornelius Fichtner: No wonder you are saying it is hectic, yes. The one thing we want to talk about, however, this morning is not any of your presentations but your book. The two of you wrote a book together called “Say Yes to Project Success – Winning the Project Management Game”. It includes proven insights from 108 experts of that led 2,000 projects in 119 countries. And let’s see, it is about 160 pages thick. So you have 108 experts and 160, how did you pull this off to start with? How did you get 108 to contribute to your book? Karthik Ramamurthy: It was tough. It was made even more complex because we had to do it is a short period of four months and I should congratulate Priya has a back office PMO in addition to the PMI. In fact, there are several people right here at this conference who are experts and contributors who run a

Play Now: Karthik Ramamurthy, Sripriya Narayanasamy and Cornelius Fichtner In this interview we welcome Sripriya Narayanasamy (LinkedIn Profile) and Karthik Ramamurthy (LinkedIn Profile) who are the authors of the book Say Yes to Project Success. in 52 short and entertaining chapters the book gives actionable advice to project managers on the most common issues we are faced with on pretty much every project. This interview was recorded ad the hectic and fantastic Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Here is the book's abstract Are you under pressure to deliver? Is your life made tough by shortened schedules, tight budgets, skills gap, incomplete scope, and demanding stakeholders? Do you need help in the form of proven practical tips and techniques to help you confidently deliver project success? This book will certainly help you. What’s inside? Superb set of 52 proven project success keys. Unbeatable breadth of insights: 108 experts, 2000+ projects, 119 countries Comprehensive solutions to the top 20 global project failure factors Coverage of waterfall, hybrid and agile methodologies in 54 industries Extensive discussions on soft skills, leadership and communication Situation, impact, and resolution presentation technique Storytelling approach for easy understanding We have chosen 4 chapters from the book ("Great Catches", "Last Mile Connectivity", "Fun with Risks", and "Feed me a Sandwich") in order to review them together.

Play Now: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam: PMP Exam prep : Karthik Ramamurthy, Sripriya Narayanasamy and Cornelius Fichtner In this interview we welcome Sripriya Narayanasamy (LinkedIn Profile) and Karthik Ramamurthy (LinkedIn Profile) who are the authors of the book Say Yes to Project Success. in 52 short and entertaining chapters the book gives actionable advice to project managers on the most common issues we are faced with on pretty much every project. This interview was recorded ad the hectic and fantastic Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Here is the book's abstract Are you under pressure to deliver? Is your life made tough by shortened schedules, tight budgets, skills gap, incomplete scope, and demanding stakeholders? Do you need help in the form of proven practical tips and techniques to help you confidently deliver project success? This book will certainly help you. What’s inside? Superb set of 52 proven project success keys. Unbeatable breadth of insights: 108 experts, 2000+ projects, 119 countries Comprehensive solutions to the top 20 global project failure factors Coverage of waterfall, hybrid and agile methodologies in 54 industries Extensive discussions on soft skills, leadership and communication Situation, impact, and resolution presentation technique Storytelling approach for easy understanding We have chosen 4 chapters from the book ("Great Catches", "Last Mile Connectivity", "Fun with Risks", and "Feed me a Sandwich") in order to review them together. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Coming soon... Above are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Please subscribe to our Premium Podcast to receive a PDF transcript.

Play Now: Kevin Wozniak and Cornelius Fichtner Got Meetings? This interview focuses on effective meeting management. It covers one of the project management basics that is most difficult to handle - managing stakeholders using different combinations of direct, dotted line, and influential management. This interview with Kevin Wozniak was recorded at the creative Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. In the interview we demonstrate how to effectively lead meetings and manage participants using various management styles and explain how to actively engage meeting attendees to participate in meetings in a valuable manner.

Play Now: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam: PMP Training : Kevin Wozniak and Cornelius Fichtner Got Meetings? This interview focuses on effective meeting management. It covers one of the project management basics that is most difficult to handle - managing stakeholders using different combinations of direct, dotted line, and influential management. This interview with Kevin Wozniak was recorded at the creative Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. In the interview we demonstrate how to effectively lead meetings and manage participants using various management styles and explain how to actively engage meeting attendees to participate in meetings in a valuable manner. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Kevin Wozniak: In this episode of The Project Management Podcast™, we learn to actively engage meeting attendees to participate in meetings in a valuable manner. Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to The Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com. I am Cornelius Fichtner. Podcast Interview Cornelius Fichtner: We are coming to you live from the creative 2018 PMI Global Conference in Los Angeles. And right now sitting with me here on the window ledge in the middle of the hallway is Kevin Wozniak. Good afternoon, Kevin. Kevin Wozniak: Good afternoon, Cornelius. Cornelius Fichtner: How are you doing? Kevin Wozniak: Doing fantastic. It’s been a great conference. Cornelius Fichtner: Other than the seats are a bit hot here, we couldn’t find a real seat so we’re literally sitting on a window ledge for the interview here today. You had your presentation yesterday on your topic of effective meeting leadership that engages. How did it go? Kevin Wozniak: It went fantastic. We had a very engaging discussion. We had a good crowd show up. Cornelius Fichtner: About 900 people right? Kevin Wozniak: No, we had over a hundred, definitely. So it was a good crowd. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, what I found interesting is the fact that you’re talking on a topic that I’ve been doing The Project Management Podcast™ for about a dozen years now or so, I’ve had several speakers on it and I thought we had talked about everything there is to talk about. Yet you are giving a professional presentation at the largest project management conference out there. There is still need for this topic, very surprising. Kevin Wozniak: When I was working on my presentation for this year, I was thinking about really what makes me ineffective at my job and what things could be improved on? And really meeting management seems to still be at the heart of some of our inefficiencies at what we are doing and at work. So when I was looking over the topic, I said: “Boy, all these things, I certainly make a list of everything that set my schedule off, mass emails, 200 emails a day, double, triple, quadruple books, starting meetings 5, 10 minutes late, having too many meeting attendees in the meeting. A good example there is let’s say you invite 10 people to your meeting, if you invite 3 developers and the development manager so let’s say four people, you have let’s say you’re meeting for an hour, that’s 4 hours of time. Do you really need three developers there? You most likely only need the development manager. He should be able to cover. He or she should be able to cover for his staff and then you are saving 3 hours if you don’t have all those developers. Most likely, you’re going to be asking them a question that only requires two to three minutes of their time on that call but you’re going to waste an hour if you have them in there. So assign the right people. Assign the right point people that helps all immensely, but that’s just one of the examples of what we covered yesterday. Corn

Play Now: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam: PMP Training : Kevin Wozniak and Cornelius Fichtner Got Meetings? This interview focuses on effective meeting management. It covers one of the project management basics that is most difficult to handle - managing stakeholders using different combinations of direct, dotted line, and influential management. This interview with Kevin Wozniak was recorded at the creative Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. In the interview we demonstrate how to effectively lead meetings and manage participants using various management styles and explain how to actively engage meeting attendees to participate in meetings in a valuable manner. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Coming Soon! Above are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Please subscribe to our Premium Podcast to receive a PDF transcript.

Play Now: Douglas Knutzen and Cornelius Fichtner What if you had to do your project in (near) half the time as previous projects, or be fired? What if your customer required you to do their project in (near) half the time to which you are accustomed or lose the business? Hear about the techniques (that can be applied to almost any type of project) that helped to meet these challenges and got the products successfully to market in record time. This interview with Douglas Knutzen was recorded at the inspirational Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. You'll hear about how to leverage scheduling, execution and team techniques to significantly increase speed on your projects, and (almost more importantly) how to lead project teams in high-pressure situations.

Play Now: Eleonore Pieper and Cornelius Fichtner Successful projects result in change. However, this transformation usually happens when the original project team is already disbanding, leaving the process largely unmanaged and stakeholders ill-equipped to use the deliverables as they were intended, diminishing the expected project impact and benefits. In this interview, we explore five strategies that project managers can easily incorporate into their project plans to put in place preventative and mitigation strategies that will lead to improved adoption of project results. This interview with Eleonore Pieper (LinkedIn Profile) was recorded at the diverse Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. We look at a scalable model of five strategies for change and discuss how to modify plans with specific tasks in the areas of communication, training, organizational design, sponsorship and HR management to ensure successful post-project transformation.

Play Now: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam: PMP Exam prep : Douglas Knutzen and Cornelius Fichtner What if you had to do your project in (near) half the time as previous projects, or be fired? What if your customer required you to do their project in (near) half the time to which you are accustomed or lose the business? Hear about the techniques (that can be applied to almost any type of project) that helped to meet these challenges and got the products successfully to market in record time. This interview with Douglas Knutzen was recorded at the inspirational Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. You'll hear about how to leverage scheduling, execution and team techniques to significantly increase speed on your projects, and (almost more importantly) how to lead project teams in high-pressure situations. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Douglas Knutzen: Hi, This is Doug Knutzen from Plexus Corporation. In this episode of The Project Management Podcast™, we will lever the scheduling, execution and team techniques to significantly increase speed on future projects. Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to The Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com. I am Cornelius Fichtner. Podcast Interview Cornelius Fichtner: We are coming to you live from the inspirational 2018 PMI Global Conference in Los Angeles. And I’m currently sitting here in Room 411A together with Doug Knutzen. Hello, Doug! Good afternoon! Douglas Knutzen: Good afternoon, Cornelius. Thanks for having me. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah! So the audience has just left. This is a beautiful, beautiful venue that they have given you. How was the presentation? Douglas Knutzen: It was really fun; it is a wonderful venue. I was really happy to be in the theater. The audience was great. I think we had about 200 people or so and I think it was well received. I think it went very well. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, I came in at the tail end and lots of questions. Lots of questions came. Douglas Knutzen: Yeah, there were a lot of questions, very insightful questions. Cornelius Fichtner: Always a good sign. Douglas Knutzen: Yeah, I think so. Cornelius Fichtner: In the opening, I said: “We’re coming to you live from the inspirational 2018 PMI Global Conference.” You chose the adjective ‘inspirational’. Why is it inspirational? Douglas Knutzen: I think for two reasons. I think the two keynoters that we had this week particularly the gentlemen from the NFL, I’m sorry I can’t pronounce his last name. Cornelius Fichtner: Neither can I, yup! Douglas Knutzen: Who’s the magician, and had a great inspirational story there. He was just nothing short of fantastic and I think today’s speaker about the five generations and working through that, I thought he was very inspirational too. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, I saw myself in those slides definitely. Douglas Knutzen: Yeah and they both did tremendously well. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah. Your presentation is called “Taking Your projects to Breathtaking Speed.” How did this presentation develop? Why are you talking on this topic? Douglas Knutzen: Yeah, that’s a great question. Overtime, there were two projects that went really well that were both under significant duress and both went really, really quickly, really crazy speeds and they had to do that because of the duress they were under. And when I went back and looked at it, they were from two different companies and I thought there must be some correlations here. It’s like doing a lessons learned if you will. There must be some correlations that allow us to kind of see what were the correlations between these two projects and that’s what led to sort of the development of this specific talk. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, you said those two projects were under duress. What are some other more general reasons why we projec

Play Now: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam: PMP Exam prep : Douglas Knutzen and Cornelius Fichtner What if you had to do your project in (near) half the time as previous projects, or be fired? What if your customer required you to do their project in (near) half the time to which you are accustomed or lose the business? Hear about the techniques (that can be applied to almost any type of project) that helped to meet these challenges and got the products successfully to market in record time. This interview with Douglas Knutzen was recorded at the inspirational Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. You'll hear about how to leverage scheduling, execution and team techniques to significantly increase speed on your projects, and (almost more importantly) how to lead project teams in high-pressure situations. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Douglas Knutzen: Hi, This is Doug Knutzen from Plexus Corporation. In this episode of The Project Management Podcast™, we will lever the scheduling, execution and team techniques to significantly increase speed on future projects. Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to The Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com. I am Cornelius Fichtner. Podcast Interview Cornelius Fichtner: We are coming to you live from the inspirational 2018 PMI Global Conference in Los Angeles. And I’m currently sitting here in Room 411A together with Doug Knutzen. Hello, Doug! Good afternoon! Douglas Knutzen: Good afternoon, Cornelius. Thanks for having me. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah! So the audience has just left. This is a beautiful, beautiful venue that they have given you. How was the presentation? Douglas Knutzen: It was really fun; it is a wonderful venue. I was really happy to be in the theater. The audience was great. I think we had about 200 people or so and I think it was well received. I think it went very well. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, I came in at the tail end and lots of questions. Lots of questions came. Douglas Knutzen: Yeah, there were a lot of questions, very insightful questions. Cornelius Fichtner: Always a good sign. Douglas Knutzen: Yeah, I think so. Cornelius Fichtner: In the opening, I said: “We’re coming to you live from the inspirational 2018 PMI Global Conference.” You chose the adjective ‘inspirational’. Why is it inspirational? Douglas Knutzen: I think for two reasons. I think the two keynoters that we had this week particularly the gentlemen from the NFL, I’m sorry I can’t pronounce his last name. Cornelius Fichtner: Neither can I, yup! Douglas Knutzen: Who’s the magician, and had a great inspirational story there. He was just nothing short of fantastic and I think today’s speaker about the five generations and working through that, I thought he was very inspirational too. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, I saw myself in those slides definitely. Douglas Knutzen: Yeah and they both did tremendously well. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah. Your presentation is called “Taking Your projects to Breathtaking Speed.” How did this presentation develop? Why are you talking on this topic? Douglas Knutzen: Yeah, that’s a great question. Overtime, there were two projects that went really well that were both under significant duress and both went really, really quickly, really crazy speeds and they had to do that because of the duress they were under. And when I went back and looked at it, they were from two different companies and I thought there must be some correlations here. It’s like doing a lessons learned if you will. There must be some correlations that allow us to kind of see what were the correlations between these two projects and that’s what led to sort of the development of this specific talk. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, you said those two projects were under duress. What are some other more general reasons why we projec

Play Now: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam: PMP Exam prep : Eleonore Pieper and Cornelius Fichtner Successful projects result in change. However, this transformation usually happens when the original project team is already disbanding, leaving the process largely unmanaged and stakeholders ill-equipped to use the deliverables as they were intended, diminishing the expected project impact and benefits. In this interview, we explore five strategies that project managers can easily incorporate into their project plans to put in place preventative and mitigation strategies that will lead to improved adoption of project results. This interview with Eleonore Pieper (LinkedIn Profile) was recorded at the diverse Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. We look at a scalable model of five strategies for change and discuss how to modify plans with specific tasks in the areas of communication, training, organizational design, sponsorship and HR management to ensure successful post-project transformation. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Eleonore Pieper: In this episode of The Project Management Podcast™, we explore strategies that you can easily incorporate into your project plans in order to achieve improved adoption of project results. Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to The Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com. I am Cornelius Fichtner. Podcast Interview Cornelius Fichtner: We are coming to you live from the diverse 2018 PMI Global Conference in Los Angeles. And with me right now is Eleonore Pieper. Good afternoon! Eleonore Pieper: Good afternoon, Cornelius. Thanks for having me. Cornelius Fichtner: Absolutely! You already did your presentation earlier this morning right after the opening keynote presentation. How was it? Eleonore Pieper: I did, I did. I was pretty nervous. I really thought John, who did the keynote, was a hard act to follow that the set up was really great. I had a large audience, about 130 people in the room and everybody stayed pretty much until the bitter end. Lots of questions. Lots of interactions. So I kind of came out pretty stoked. Cornelius Fichtner: And you also had a technical issue? Eleonore Pieper: I did. For some reason, right in the middle of it, my slide deck started advancing for no apparent reason. So whatever gremlins were in the computer did their thing. Cornelius Fichtner: It is auto-advanced. Eleonore Pieper: Auto-advanced, it’s right. I think it must have been a setting like I don’t know kiosk setting or something in the presentation so I had to kind of flip back to keep on the slide I was still talking about and that was interesting. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, and just by sheer coincidence, I sat at a lunch table with somebody who was at your presentation and about this technical issue they said, but she covered it flawlessly. So it’s all good. It’s all good. Eleonore Pieper: Big sigh of relief. I’m very happy to hear that, thank you. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah. So I’d like to go back to one word that we heard in my opening. I said: ‘We are coming to you live from the diverse 2018 PMI Global conference.’ You chose that adjective, diverse. Why did you choose that? Eleonore Pieper: Well I am from Dallas. I’ve been there for the last 20 years working as a project manager. In Dallas, I would say project management is very much a middle-aged white profession. And being out here seeing people from Africa, from India, from China, everywhere, women, men, young people, old people coming together talking about project management, that kind of global feeling, I’m normally missing in my business. And so to me, that’s really energizing and makes me very happy. Cornelius Fichtner: Your presentation is called “Life After Implementation”. Why did you choose that particular topic? Eleonore Pieper: It’s something that I

Play Now: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam: PMP Exam prep : Eleonore Pieper and Cornelius Fichtner Successful projects result in change. However, this transformation usually happens when the original project team is already disbanding, leaving the process largely unmanaged and stakeholders ill-equipped to use the deliverables as they were intended, diminishing the expected project impact and benefits. In this interview, we explore five strategies that project managers can easily incorporate into their project plans to put in place preventative and mitigation strategies that will lead to improved adoption of project results. This interview with Eleonore Pieper (LinkedIn Profile) was recorded at the diverse Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. We look at a scalable model of five strategies for change and discuss how to modify plans with specific tasks in the areas of communication, training, organizational design, sponsorship and HR management to ensure successful post-project transformation. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Eleonore Pieper: In this episode of The Project Management Podcast™, we explore strategies that you can easily incorporate into your project plans in order to achieve improved adoption of project results. Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to The Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com. I am Cornelius Fichtner. Podcast Interview Cornelius Fichtner: We are coming to you live from the diverse 2018 PMI Global Conference in Los Angeles. And with me right now is Eleonore Pieper. Good afternoon! Eleonore Pieper: Good afternoon, Cornelius. Thanks for having me. Cornelius Fichtner: Absolutely! You already did your presentation earlier this morning right after the opening keynote presentation. How was it? Eleonore Pieper: I did, I did. I was pretty nervous. I really thought John, who did the keynote, was a hard act to follow that the set up was really great. I had a large audience, about 130 people in the room and everybody stayed pretty much until the bitter end. Lots of questions. Lots of interactions. So I kind of came out pretty stoked. Cornelius Fichtner: And you also had a technical issue? Eleonore Pieper: I did. For some reason, right in the middle of it, my slide deck started advancing for no apparent reason. So whatever gremlins were in the computer did their thing. Cornelius Fichtner: It is auto-advanced. Eleonore Pieper: Auto-advanced, it’s right. I think it must have been a setting like I don’t know kiosk setting or something in the presentation so I had to kind of flip back to keep on the slide I was still talking about and that was interesting. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, and just by sheer coincidence, I sat at a lunch table with somebody who was at your presentation and about this technical issue they said, but she covered it flawlessly. So it’s all good. It’s all good. Eleonore Pieper: Big sigh of relief. I’m very happy to hear that, thank you. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah. So I’d like to go back to one word that we heard in my opening. I said: ‘We are coming to you live from the diverse 2018 PMI Global conference.’ You chose that adjective, diverse. Why did you choose that? Eleonore Pieper: Well I am from Dallas. I’ve been there for the last 20 years working as a project manager. In Dallas, I would say project management is very much a middle-aged white profession. And being out here seeing people from Africa, from India, from China, everywhere, women, men, young people, old people coming together talking about project management, that kind of global feeling, I’m normally missing in my business. And so to me, that’s really energizing and makes me very happy. Cornelius Fichtner: Your presentation is called “Life After Implementation”. Why did you choose that particular topic? Eleonore Pieper: It’s something that I