The Sunday Lunch Project Manager

Craig Mackay, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sharktower AI With over 20 years of delivering projects and seeing too many failures, Craig is obsessed with tackling the waste in projects. Craig has spent his whole career delivering change; whether it be lean process efficiency, people change, software solutions, new product propositions or large scale technology transformations. Throughout t...

This episode we have part two of my interview with Bruce Gay PMP, The Design Thinking Guy . Bruce a Project Manager,and Speaker, who enjoys bringing order to chaos and spending time with leaders to study and learn from their successes (and failures). He manages large-scale programs that include both technical and business change with the aim of improving organizational performance. For the past 15...

This episode we have part one of my interview with Bruce Gay PMP, The Design Thinking Guy . Bruce a Project Manager,and Speaker, who enjoys bringing order to chaos and spending time with leaders to study and learn from their successes (and failures). He manages large-scale programs that include both technical and business change with the aim of improving organizational performance. For the past 15...

This episode we have part two of my interview with Chris Field, The PMI UK Chapter Chair.    Maybe we will find out more about the cliff hanger that he left us will in the last episode. Chris is an experienced project, programme and PMO professional with a wealth of experience and passion for results.  He has been an active volunteer with the Chapter for almost twenty years.  He is currently in hi...

This episode we have part one of my interview with Chris Field, The PMI Chapter Chair. Chris is an experienced project, programme and PMO professional with a wealth of experience and passion for results.  He has been an active volunteer with the Chapter for almost twenty years.  He is currently in his second term as President; having previously held the role from 2009-2012..  web:  www.pmi.org.uk/...

This episode we have part two of my interview with Professor Eddie Obeng, The Human Energy Drink. Eddie is described by the Financial Times as a 'leading revolutionary' and 'agent provocateur', Eddie is a professor at the School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Henley Business School, founder and Learning Director of Pentacle The Virtual Business School, and a leading business theorist, i...

This episode we have part one of my interview with Professor Eddie Obeng, The Human Energy Drink. Eddie is described by the Financial Times as a 'leading revolutionary' and 'agent provocateur', Eddie is a professor at the School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Henley Business School, founder and Learning Director of Pentacle The Virtual Business School, and a leading business theorist, i...

Part 2 : Another Playful Saturday Brunch with Simon  Dutton, The Lego Man Simon is a talks to us about LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.which is a facilitated meeting, communication and problem solving method that leads participants through a series of questions which go deeper and deeper. Each participant builds their own three-dimensional LEGO model using specially selected LEGO bricks in response to the fac...

A Playful Saturday Brunch with Simon  Dutton, The Lego Man Simon is a talks to us about LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.which is a facilitated meeting, communication and problem solving method that leads participants through a series of questions which go deeper and deeper. Each participant builds their own three-dimensional LEGO model using specially selected LEGO bricks in response to the facilitator’s ques...

In this episode of the Saturday Brunch we have the second part of the chat with Jonathan Norman. Following a 30 year career in business publishing, Jonathan Norman now works as knowledge manager for the Major Projects Association. The techniques and tools he uses to curate and collate content for the knowledge repository; design and facilitate virtual activities and knowledge sharing events; and t...

in this episode of the Saturday Brunch I am speaking with Jonathan Norman. Following a 30 year career in business publishing, Jonathan Norman now works as knowledge manager for the Major Projects Association.  The techniques and tools he uses to curate and collate content for the knowledge repository; design and facilitate virtual activities and knowledge sharing events; and to model and socialise...

This month the award-winning academic PM Dr Karen Thompson returns to talk about her project management career. Karen is an experienced practitioner turned innovative academic.  She is passionate about transforming Project Management practice and education through research that explores the creative, ethical and human dimensions of projects.   At Bournemouth University she leads the MSc Organisati...

This month's Saturday Brunch features an interview I did with the Project Management web site PM Tips (pmtips.net) a very different experience being on the other side of the interview microphone. PM Tips is a real-life guide for people who are interested in developing a career or are already working in the field of project management. It covers a wide range of project management topics in a very s...

In this month's interview I meet Gordon Mackellar, Gordon is a professionally qualified (PMP, MAPM, MCIPD) project leader and Project Director at Prime Design Projects. He has implemented business and capital projects around the globe, leading and inspiring dispersed project teams from different cultural backgrounds. Website: https://www.primedesignprojects.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/...

In this interview, I talk to  Ricardo Vargas about the PMI's Brightline intiiative. Ricardo Over the past 20 years, Ricardo has been responsible for more than 80 major transformation projects in several countries within the oil and gas, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, information technology and finance industries, covering an investment portfolio of over 20 billion USD. He is also an e...

This month I meet Emily Luijbregts PMP, EM the PM. Emily is Project Manager and Scrum Master who has excelled working virtually and with a variety of different cultures. Whilst working in Europe she has been working on developing training for working with different cultures and empowering your project team. Since 2017, she has ’been actively speaking and sharing knowledge with the Project Manageme...

Today's Saturday Brunch interview I am being a Responsible Project manager with Dr Karen Thompson  Karen is an experienced practitioner turned innovative academic.  She is passionate about transforming Project Management practice and education through research that explores the creative, ethical and human dimensions of projects.    At Bournemouth University she leads the MSc Organisational Project...

In this episode I meet Sidar OK.  Sidar is an executive coach and renowned independent management consultant in IT strategy, and founder of IQoach. He helped dozens of professionals to multiply their value in the job market, and capture that value personally by becoming a freelancer, getting promoted, getting raises, etc. His clients are no less than fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Google...

Today's Saturday Brunch interview I am talking Bollocks with Susie Palmer- Trew and Peter Taylor as I get the inside track on their new book Project Management: It's All Bollocks! where two people who vaguely know each other and barely like each other will pick over the sadly inadequate body of knowledge that is project management today, and generally challenge just about everything.  The authors...

Praveen Malik is a startup enthusiast and sales conversion guru. But his first love remain in Project Management. Praveen is a well-renowned speaker, trainer, author, and project management coach. He helps PMP aspirants through his project management blog (https://www.pmbypm.com/). Nowadays, he devotes a major chunk of his time & energy in growth hacking startups and small businesses (http://resou...

Today  Saturday Brunch interview features Paul J. Bedford, The Cyber Security Guy. He spend his days protecting global corporation's customer data, finances & assets from cyber attacks and Paul gives us project managers some pointers on what we should be thinking about in the security arena. Paul is a Lead Cyber Security Business Analyst with more than 20 years frontline experience delivering crit...

Ron Rosenhead has been involved in project management in some way shape or form for at least 15 years. This includes training, consulting, coaching as well as speaking at conferences.  He enjoys working with individual, groups or organisations working on your agenda!! Website: https://ronrosenhead.co.uk/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronrosenhead/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ronrosenhead...

Dr Mike Clayton is a Business Author, Conference Speaker, Facilitator, and Trusted Advisor but these describe what he does, not who he is. Are you looking for a curious soul, committed to intellectual rigour, transparent communication, and the highest professional standards? With Mike as your speaker, you are in safe hands, assured of honesty, entertainment and insight. You can always rely upon hi...

In this Saturday brunch episode I give a quick reprise of my recent LinkedIn article on the new PMI Logo.

Joe Pusz has been a Project Management advocate for over 20 years.  As a leader in the Project Management space, clients and peers have nicknamed him  "PMO Joe".   Joe frequently speaks at Industry events leading the charge to help organizations understand the value of effective Project Management.  Joe is the President of THE PMO SQUAD, a Project Management consultancy that is 100% Project Manage...