The Lifelong Project Podcast

Does your train of thought have a caboose? Are you communicating or just talking? What do you need to know? In this episode of The Lifelong Project Podcast, I'll share some insight to how communicate more effectively in your projects.

We're all busy. We all get the same amount of time. We all don't, however, get stuff done. In this episode I'll share my approach to getting stuff done, setting priorities, and I'll attack the myth of multitasking.

Risk is an uncertain event that can have a positive or negative effect on our projects - and our lives. In this episode I'll drill into some specifics of risk management.

Over the past year, I got fat. In this podcast, I'll share with you what happened and what I'm going to do about it. Accountability is a great motivator - and that's the point of this podcast.

It's been a moment since I've published an episode. I'm back, I'm healthy, and ready to get into 2019. Let's go!

In today's podcast, I'll walk through the big, big picture of Scrum and how it all works together.

This past week I found a rock - a special rock - that was painted like a scarecrow. What does this have to do with project management? Plenty! Let's find some rocks.

In projects, and in our lives, nothing happens until someone does something. In this episode I'll discuss the importance of decisions and actions - and yes, I'll talk about my fear of math and four birds on a wire.

Little to do with project management, but much to do with life.

Happy Halloween - a special edition of The Lifelong Project podcast... it's spooky! I'm a vampire and I'm your manager. I'd rather drink your blood than coffee. Your job sucks because you work for me. For years I've owned you, controlled you, and made your life miserable, but not anymore. I'm retiring and I'm sharing some secrets that just might get me killed. I don't care – I'm dead already. Vampires rule over corporate fiefdoms and control workers by the minute. You know you're working for a vampire when your manager doesn't care about your goals, your family life, and the misery you endure just to do your job. If you hate your job because of your manager, your coworkers, or because you can't afford to quit you're probably working for a vampire. My book, Vampire Management, is on Amazon.

In this week's episode I'll discuss the value in gathering requirements for your projects and for your life. Requirements tell us what we need to achieve, what we must achieve, for the project to be successful.

In this episode we'll discuss the unexpected changes in life and in projects, the whole point of the Lifelong Project, and you doing more than you believe possible. You can pass the PMP, earn the new certification, or accomplish whatever goals you set out to achieve.

If you want to pass the PMP exam, you'll first need to qualify for the exam and then create a plan for how you'll pass the test. Let's get that part straight right away: Your goal is pass the test. Your goal is not to take the test. Your goal is not to get a perfect score. Your goal is simply to pass the test. You're a project manager. If you were assigned a project to build a condo, develop new software, upgrade a network, or any other possible task, you'd need to create a project management plan. You'd identify all of the requirements for the project and then map a way to achieve the goals of the project customer. Why should your effort to pass the PMP exam be any different?

If you want to be appear professional, in control, and as a leader in your projects don't freak out when things go wrong. Projects are uncertain - things will go wrong, just as things happen in all projects, in businesses, and even in life. We can't always control what will happen, but we can control how we react. 

Keep moving forward! If you've taken one of my online classes you know that I like to say "keep moving forward."  But why? What's the deal with that line and why do I say it so often. There's more to the story than you moving onto the next lecture. In this podcast, I'll share the story behind the line.

In this episode, Joseph Phillips share a letter from a listener and offers some frank career advice. Life is too short to be unhappy! There's much to be said about selling t-shirts on the beach.

Changes happen in a project, but that doesn't mean that everyone is going to be happy about the changes. Unless you want a project, a predictive project, to blow up, you need an approach to manage changes as they enter your project. In this episode, I'll share insight to one of the most important activities you'll have to do as a project manager: expect and manage changes. Don't let changes wreck your project! 

There is nothing more frustrating as a project manager to see a project fail - and there's nothing more frustrating to your stakeholders to. So why do projects fail and what can we, the project manager, do to prevent failure? In this episode, Joseph Phillips will discuss proven strategies he's used to prevent project failure.

Regrets are empty distractions from what's important in our lives. In this episode, Joseph Phillips discusses the parents of regret and how these two characteristics can affect our project success. He'll also offer some insight to a strategy to avoid regrets and set us up for success in our endeavors. 

The Lifelong Project Podcast discusses project management, goal setting, and getting stuff done. In this premiere episode, Joseph Phillips discusses the goals of the Lifelong Project podcast, his experience in project management, and offers some insight to project management.