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E90 Citizen Development with Matt and Mario

November 9, 2021 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E90 Citizen Development with Matt and Mario

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E90 Citizen Development with Matt and Mario

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

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

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

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

Project Management Institute (PMI) is the World’s Leading Project Management Organization.

Through global advocacy, collaboration, education and research, we work to prepare more than three million professionals around the world for the Project Economy: the coming economy in which work, and individuals, are organized around projects.

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.

Recipient of the 2014 PMIEF Harold Kerzner, 2017-2022 Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Regional Director.

Connect with Mario on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and LinkedIn.

TrackVia offers the fastest app-building platform for anyone looking for a better way to work. TrackVia gives business people and IT experts the ability to easily build and integrate apps to track, manage, and automate processes in days, not weeks.

People from Volcafe, Honeywell, and Rad Power Bikes have made lasting and substantial improvements to their business using TrackVia’s bullet-proof cloud-based technology — and they love getting the industry’s best customer experience every step of the way.

As the Head of Operational Excellence at TrackVia, Matt Hubbard works to bring citizen development programs to organizations using his 20+ years of operational excellence experience.

Prior to joining TrackVia, Matt co-founded his own consulting firm specializing in business process management and low-code technology.

The core of Matt’s success is his belief that process, technology, and people must be optimized together to achieve a lasting result.

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn and follow TrackVia on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned. Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”

Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t. Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better. Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results. Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

ABOUT OUR SPONSOR

THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise. Contact Joe at 678-591-7868. Follow The PMO Squad on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

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

E83 Breaking Through Barriers with Erika Flora

July 18, 2021 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E83 Breaking Through Barriers with Erika Flora

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E83 Breaking Through Barriers with Erika Flora

In this episode Erika Flora joins Joe Pusz in Project Management Office Hours to discuss organizational and personal transformation, defining your organization’s “why” and developing effective listening, coaching, and facilitation skills. Erika is President & CEO of Beyond20, an Industry Leader, Speaker, and Coach. Erika was also the Lead Editor of the core ITIL 4 publication on “Digital and Strategy”. Erika’s journey has been about exploring possibilities and thinking outside the box “We often make excuses for ourselves, that we can’t do something. Instead, think about the opportunity you have to change your life listening to others and learning new skills.” -Erika

Ask yourself this; are you a glass is half full or half empty type person? Maybe the glass is always full. Listen to hear Erika and PMO Joe discuss and whatever your answer may be, understand there are many ways we can learn in life. However, with learning comes barriers at some point and knowing how to overcome those obstacles will let nothing get in your way. So, go out there and push your boundaries today!

Visit https://www.beyond20.com/ to discover more about Erika and Beyond20.

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

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

Beyond20 is an organizational transformation accelerator that combines IT professional development and software development with expert consulting to help clients attain their most ambitious evolutionary goals.

We do this by focusing on the strategic shifts our clients want to make, not just the service management or cyber skills they want to gain. We apply our integrated training, software, and consulting methodologies – all led by industry-recognized experts – to craft skill-building solutions that reflect our clients’ ways of working.

We chart custom paths to success based on our clients’ existing talent maturity and organizational abilities, and we actively manage their progress along that path so they’re free to focus on their core mission.

The result is an organization that’s able to perform at a higher level, deliver more value, and keep pace with demand – goals beyond the reach of just training or consulting alone.

After starting her career as a microbiologist, Erika Flora became a Program Manager and discovered a passion for improving how organizations manage work and deliver great products and services.

In 2006, she co-founded Beyond20. She has more than 15 years of experience leading and advising organizational transformations, served as an adjunct professor at San Diego State University, and is a prolific writer and speaker. Erika was also the lead editor of the core ITIL 4 publication on “Digital and IT Strategy.”

Connect with Erika on LinkedIn and follow Beyond20 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Celebrating Women In Agile with Maria Matarelli, Patty Aluskewicz E7

February 25, 2021 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Celebrating Women In Agile with Maria Matarelli, Patty Aluskewicz E7

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Don’t know how to start or where to get the resources from? Look no further, these ladies have the answers you need. Their journeys are so unique, this is worth the listen! In this episode you can grasp some valuable insight from them and learn how to overcome those challenges you’re facing now!

Alway wanted to be involved in the Agile community, but don’t know where to start? Well, these ladies have the answers you need. Their journeys are so unique, this is worth the listen! In this episode you can grasp some valuable insight from them and learn how to overcome those challenges you’re facing now!

At Formula Ink we inspire people to push past limiting beliefs, leverage their strengths and reach unparalleled individual and business results.

Our market differentiator is in bridging the gap; helping corporations think like entrepreneurs and helping entrepreneurs get what they need to develop their companies.

“We show entrepreneurs how to implement and leverage the same systems and processes used by large corporations.”

“We show corporations how to tap into that raw passion and excitement that’s so common in the start-up culture.”

With more than ten years of experience consulting organizations on business strategy, planning, process improvements, and organizational change, our consultants have the industry knowledge and experience to help take your organization to the next level.

Through organization consulting, training classes, and workshops, Formula Ink helps organizations enhance their effectiveness, reduce conflict, and increase communications to achieve better results.

Maria Matarelli is an international business consultant, experienced Agile Coach, and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) who consults and trains companies on reaching true agility. Maria travels to consult Fortune 100 companies and speak at industry conferences with locations from Shanghai to Singapore and Thailand to Nova Scotia.

While looking for ways to continue to expand Agile outside IT, Maria and her team have been applying Agile to the Marketing realm with incredible results, which led to Maria co-founding the Agile Marketing Academy. Maria also co-founded the Personal Agility Institute, helping people use Agile to do more of what matters in their lives and shift the culture of organizations.

Maria is also the Founder and President of Formula Ink, an international consulting company and is passionate about working with people and organizations to increase speed to market, increase efficiency, and get greater results in business.

Connect with Maria on LinkedIn.

Patty Aluskewicz, Founder of Agile Mindset Consulting, is a Scrum Master, Agile Coach and Consultant, and Professional Educator.

With over 14 years of experience, she assists businesses and their employees in building Agile skills and successfully implementing them into their daily operations.

She is passionate about helping those new to Agile learn the fundamentals for accelerated career development and progress.

Connect with Patty on LinkedIn.

About The Lurnist – Celebrating Women in Agile

We highlight fantastic women who are doing great things in the Agile field, all the while creating role models to inspire young women in high school and college to want to have a career in Agile.

Who do you know that leads scrum teams? Builds great products as a product owner or product manager? Coaches leading agile transformations? Or, is an agile teacher or trainer? We’d love to get to know her with the hope to feature her story and journey to success on The Lurnist Radio Show & Podcast.

About Your Co-hosts

Debra Hildebrand is the Founder and CEO of LurnAgile and has over 20 years’ experience in project management; including consulting and training in the public and private sector and teaching in higher education.

She is one of the architects for the Project Management Certification program at the University of Washington, where she received the Team-Teaching Excellence Award and currently instructs in the online portion of the program. Additionally, she developed and currently teaches traditional and agile project management courses at Stanford University.

Her passion projects include Celebrating Women in Agile through her Business RadioX Show, The Lurnist Show, and helping veterans transition into meaningful careers in project management after service disconnection through her work on the board of Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance (VPMMA).

She is a certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5.0), Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute and has an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, NY.

Lauryn Jenne is a senior student at University of Washington Bothell (UWB), majoring in Management Information Systems with a minor in Computer Science IT. Lauryn currently works for UWB School of Business and is also the Digital Marketing Manager at Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance (VPMMA), a non-profit that assists veterans and military spouses in gaining careers in project management.

Additionally, she is the Vice President of Fundraising for Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity at the University.

Lauryn aspires to work for an organization as a project manager and eventually create her own brand and startup company.

Lauryn currently lives in Seattle, WA

About Our Sponsor LurnAgile

LurnAgile is a Boutique, Woman Owned Small Business that delivers top quality Agile Certification courses and Agile Coaching. We are a Scaled Agile Silver Transformation Partner, which shows our clients that we have invested in and are committed to the Scaled Agile training standards and coach offerings.

Each of our team of Elite coaches/instructors have over 10 years of leading and coaching Agile Transformations in some of the largest Fortune 100 and 500 companies in the world. This means that your organization is learning from someone who has “been there and done that”.

Bonus Mentorship Panel E6

February 11, 2021 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Bonus Mentorship Panel E6

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Bonus Mentorship Panel E6

AGILE DATING?! Don’t miss out on an interesting topic on the importance of mentorship. These amazing women discuss their thoughts on the idea of mentorship and their journey throughout the agile workforce.

What does mentorship mean to you? Why is it relevant for all stages in life? The conversation we had amongst these incredible women is one to not miss. No more struggling to find the confidence to go and do what you always wanted to do, this episode has the motivation you need!

Deepti Jain is an Agile practitioner, experienced in creating, leading, and managing Agile teams in a distributed setup. She is an active Agile community builder in India and loves to connect and interact with people and prefers to call herself a Social Scientist. Always feel herself where technology meets people.

Based out of Gurgaon, she is very Agile to work with International and National Clients. To get access and share Agile abundance she founded “AgileVirgin” in 2015. In addition to Consulting, Coaching, and Training, AgileVirgin also runs Countrywide Community of Practices. It’s flagship programs & initiatives are AgilityToday, Agile-A-Thon, Funconf, Change Agents Summit, Elucidate, Agile Coach Camp, Agile Career Bootcamp, Narrathon, Agile Job fair and Women-in-Agile-and-Tech. Further Women in Agile and Tech runs Global Mentorship Program, Dream Big, Visuallect, Gamify it, Unleash Yourself and Agility A2Z.

Deepti Jain has served Agile Alliance as Initiative Director for the initiative “Building Future Leaders and Change Agents”. This initiative helps India meet the need to grow Lean-Agile Leaders and Change Agents who can shape the culture of the country and help its industries achieve a true Agile Mindset. Keeping India at the focal point, this initiative establishes a cultural exchange and growth platform for people across the globe.

Expanding her canvas this year, Deepti Jain joins Agile Alliance in a new capacity as India Agile Community Development Head.

You can connect with her over one of the following channels:
Email: deepti.jain@agilealliance.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dee-j/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/agilevirgin

Kardia Advisory Group, a niche management consultancy, envisions a world where every organization has talented, socially conscious, and innovative teams that honor diversity, equity and inclusion.

Their dynamic team of advisors are committed to building a better world and workforce by helping industry leaders cultivate anti-racist, high- performing, and inclusive cultures that deliver innovative solutions and quality products and /services.

Denisha Jenkins is the founding Chief Executive Officer of Kardia Advisory Group, a niche management consultancy that focuses on cultivating inclusively diverse organizations.

As a purpose driven entrepreneur, trauma informed speaker and IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity and access) strategist, Denisha is on a mission to restore humanity within communities – one leader at a time. She has been developing talent, designing leadership programs, and facilitating workshops on anti-racism, implicit bias, intercultural communication and innovation within the education, healthcare, manufacturing, economic development (and now travel and tech) industries for the past 15 years.

She holds a masters in Intercultural Relations, Consulting and Management and a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs and Development. Denisha has lived and studied intersectionality and how beliefs impact the systems we create and how we navigate them. Having travelled to over 17 countries, Denisha is deeply invested in hearing, elevating and sharing stories as a way to increase empathy and activate change. She is a 2016 Leadership Austin Alum and serves as the Vice President Board Member for the Institute for Diversity and Civic Life.

While candid discussions on race, gender, ability and religion are challenging, Denisha is known for her uncanny ability to disarm, affirm and equip leaders with the tools they need to identify, understand and transform harmful bias, so they can confidently lead with integrity and “create spaces where people can thrive.”

Connect with Denisha on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Arizona State University is a public research university on five campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona. ASU is one of the largest public universities in the US and ranked #1 in Innovation by US News for 6 years in a row. ASU Preparatory Academy is a network of 5 charter schools, K-12, under the umbrella of Arizona State University.

Karina Jones is the Director of Information Technology for ASU Preparatory Academy.

Karina is a PMP certified Project Manager and CSM certified Scrum Master. Her focus is on developing structure out of the most complex and innovative operations and projects.

In addition to her strong background in Computer Science and Mathematics, she holds a Masters of Nonprofit Studies from Arizona State University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Murcia, Spain.

She came to Arizona State University in 2012. Before ASU she worked for Procter & Gamble Latin America where she occupied diverse regional leadership roles in Information Technology for Latin America. She is originally from El Salvador but while working for Procter & Gamble she lived in Mexico city and Guatemala.

Connect with Karina on LinkedIn.

Ad Meliora Coaching is a boutique coaching and consulting practice that provides personal, organizational, and leadership coaching.

Founded by Erin Randall, a longtime agile, coactive, and ORSC-trained coach, Ad Meliora Coaching has a deep passion for helping both people and organizations transform from humdrum to remarkable. She grounds her work in foundational, humanist principles, coaching people and teams alike to greater group cohesiveness.

Ad Meliora Coaching has helped engineering, mining, software development, and non-profit organizations make the hard, necessary changes to move forward. Transformation is an inside job, and great coaching can help you to get there.

Erin is a longtime agile, coactive, and ORSC coach with a deep passion for serving people, teams, and organizations. Through her work with her coaching and consulting practice, Ad Meliora Coaching, she helps her clients to find the pain points and then reimagine a new way forward. Her goal in all that she does is simple: happy people doing great work.

Erin lives in Austin, Texas, and can often be found in bookstores, on hiking trails with her dogs, or at one of the Agile Coaching Circles (she’s one of the co-founders).

Connect with Erin on LinkedIn.

Yvette Francino, LLC provides coaching, training, workshops, and technical writing in the areas of Agile leadership, software development, and personal self-development.

Yvette Francino has enjoyed a long career as a leader and coach in the leadership and Agile software development.

She’s an independent consultant and coach providing education to help leaders, teams, and individuals be happier and more productive, both in their personal and professional lives.

Connect with Yvette on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About The Lurnist – Celebrating Women in Agile

We highlight fantastic women who are doing great things in the Agile field, all the while creating role models to inspire young women in high school and college to want to have a career in Agile.

About Your Co-hosts

She is a certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5.0), Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute and has an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, NY.

Additionally, she is the Vice President of Fundraising for Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity at the University.

Lauryn aspires to work for an organization as a project manager and eventually create her own brand and startup company.

Lauryn currently lives in Seattle, WA

About Our Sponsor LurnAgile

E72 Understanding Design Thinking with Bruce Gay

February 9, 2021 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E72 Understanding Design Thinking with Bruce Gay

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E72 Understanding Design Thinking with Bruce Gay

Are you familiar with Design Thinking? Are you utilizing Design Thinking to run your projects? In this episode we chat with Bruce Gay, Founder of Astrevo to understand the fundamentals and benefits of Design Thinking as well as touching on several other topics.

Bruce is a leader in the PM Industry and is an active community builder. He is a PMI Volunteer with PMI Pittsburgh, leads a Healthcare PMO, teaches part time at Norwich University and started his own firm, Astrevo.

In our discussion Bruce shares that Design Thinking allows groups of people to take time and look at their customers needs to deeply understand a problem and to start to brainstorm and down select solutions to solve those problems. The benefit to using Design Thinking is you get closer to your customer’s needs and pain points to help you identify defects earlier in the process which is less expensive than defects found later in the process.

We also hear Bruce’s perspective on trends in the industry and a few of his favorite books he recently read. We also learn about Bruce’s Project Management Insights monthly list of updates and insights within our industry.

To subscribe to Bruce’s Project Management Insights visit www.brucegay.com/signup.
To learn more about Astrevo visit www.astrevo.com
To connect with Bruce on LinkedIn visit – https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucegay/

Thanks to our sponsor THE PMO SQUAD. Visit www.thepmosquad.com to learn to Empower People to Deliver Results and assist your PMO as you evolve in the new post-COVID business world.

Check out all prior episodes and upcoming guests by visiting www.projectmanagementofficehours.com.

UPMC Enterprises is the commercialization arm of UPMC, a Pittsburgh-based health care provider and insurer. As a healthcare innovation lab, UPMC Enterprises invests in two core areas: translational science (which conducts laboratory-to-human research, applying research to human subjects) and technology solutions to empower both medical professionals and patients. Since 2018, UPMC Enterprises has launched 5 companies, supported 30 internal research projects, and invested in a variety of healthcare-related companies.

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Astrevo was formed out of a desire to share knowledge of practical problem-solving approaches that managers can deploy with their teams to better understand customer needs and achieve success. Astrevo provides training, coaching, and consultation services to help teams focus on what is important: less time managing projects, more time focusing on outcomes and customers.

What makes Astrevo unique? Its 3 key principles:

(1) Experiential Learning – Embracing a growth mindset supported in hands-on learning.
(2) Creativity – Tackling problems from different perspectives and with new techniques.
(3) Collaboration – Working with others to solve hard problems.

Bruce Gay, PMP, helps individuals improve their project management skills, become better leaders, and achieve professional greatness. He has over two-and-a-half decades worth of experience managing large, complex programs and customer relationship across multiple industries. In his current role, Bruce manages a PMO and is responsible for operational and delivery excellence for a 100+ person R&D organization comprised of software engineers, product managers, machine learning and NLP scientists, security experts, and cloud engineers. For the past 15 years, Bruce managed product teams that incorporated UX Design and Design Thinking methodologies into their product development processes.

Bruce’s public speaking experience includes presenting at both regional and international professional conferences such as PMI Global Conference (Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia) and PMI EMEA Congress in Dublin, Ireland and LearnFest Caribbean in Jamaica. Bruce is an adjunct professor for Norwich University (Northfield, VT) teaching courses in a Project Management certificate program. Bruce creates and delivers educational courses and workshops that help students grow as leaders. Bruce received a Master’s in International Affairs from The George Washington University and has been a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2005.

Currently, Bruce lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife, two daughters, and his dog. Bruce is an active volunteer with the PMI Pittsburgh chapter and is their Director of Corporate Sponsorship. Bruce shares his experiences and ideas around Design Thinking and project management on twitter: @brucegay and on his website: www.brucegay.com.

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Celebrating Women in Agile with Padmini Nidumolu and Diana Larsen E5

January 27, 2021 by Karen

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The Lurnist Show E5 with Padmini Nidumolu and Diana Larsen generated powerful conversations that ranged from topics about mentorship, coaching, Agile, women in the Agile space, and important advice for young adults.

Are you struggling to find your path or don’t know where to start? Listen to The Lurnist Show E5 and find your light at the end of the tunnel! These ladies have all the answers we have been dying to hear!

Lean In Agile is a movement for women, by women and of women designed to amplify the voices, talents and experiences of women within the Lean and Agile communities across the globe. As an international alliance, LIA connects women worldwide so that their experiences and expertise’s as Lean and Agile practitioners can be leveraged for these women to make a difference in the world for themselves and for each other.

Padmini Nidumolu is a results driven, collaborative and a passionate Enterprise Lean transformation coach.

As a lifelong learner with a strong commitment to the Lean Agile community, Padmini co-created “Lean In Agile” for Women which is an initiative to amplify the voices of women and celebrate the journeys of thought leaders.

She is a mentor, trainer and a keynote/TEDx speaker. Her expertise and focus is in building learning organizations and delivering value by leveraging diversities as enablers leading to an enterprise culture of continuous improvement.

Connect with Padmini on LinkedIn.

The Agile Fluency® Project helps coaches, consultants, and change agents put the insights of the Agile Fluency® Model into practice. We serve clients and colleagues with coaching and training using our Suite of materials. We provide services in all aspects of effective approaches to strengthening software development teams and their leaders. Diana Larsen and James Shore co-founded the Agile Fluency Project with the goal that every team should work at the level of fluency that best fits their business’ needs.

Visionary pragmatist, Diana Larsen, is co-founder, Chief Connector and a principal coach, consultant, and mentor at the Agile Fluency® Project. Diana co-authored the books Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; Five Rules for Accelerated Learning, and an upcoming new book.

Diana co-originated the Agile Fluency® model and co-authored the eBook, The Agile Fluency Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile. For 20+ years, she led the practice area for Agile software development, leading & managing teams, and guiding Agile transitions at FutureWorks Consulting.

Since 2015 she has devoted her energy to the Agile Fluency Project’s programs for training, mentoring, and supporting agile coaches and consultants. As company leader and co-founder, Diana shares the wisdom she’s gained in over 30 years of working with leaders, teams, and organizations.

About The Lurnist – Celebrating Women in Agile

We highlight fantastic women who are doing great things in the Agile field, all the while creating role models to inspire young women in high school and college to want to have a career in Agile.

About Your Co-hosts

She is a certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5.0), Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute and has an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, NY.

Additionally, she is the Vice President of Fundraising for Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity at the University.

Lauryn aspires to work for an organization as a project manager and eventually create her own brand and startup company.

Lauryn currently lives in Seattle, WA

About Our Sponsor LurnAgile

E69 Navigating the Twists and Turns of a Project Management Career with Kiron Bondale

December 21, 2020 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E69 Navigating the Twists and Turns of a Project Management Career with Kiron Bondale

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E69 Navigating the Twists and Turns of a Project Management Career with Kiron Bondale

Kiron Bondale was our special guest in this final episode of 2020. Kiron shared his career story with us including how he starting in project management and the 3 key career moments which have helped to shape his career.

Kiron also provided insights for PMs to help take your career to the next level. His time as a PM, PMO Leader, and PM Trainer has given him an opportunity to observe what works for PMs of all experience levels. We also hear his thoughts on training in the Post-Covid world as well as his perspective on a love-hate relationship with PMI.

Kiron joined us from outside Toronto, Canada as we continued our discussions with global PMO leaders. This year we chatted live with influencers from Australia, Canada, India, UK and the US. Next year we’ll continue our global trek with confirmed guests in the first quarter from Africa, Australia and the US.

Thanks to our sponsor THE PMO SQUAD. Visit www.thepmosquad.com to learn how they can help you with your Project Management challenges including PM resources, PMO improvements, Agile Transformations and Custom PM training.

Check out all prior episodes and upcoming guests by visiting www.projectmanagementofficehours.com.

For over twenty-five years, World Class Productivity (WCP) has been providing project management and agile training and consulting services to companies across Canada.

Kiron Bondale has managed hundreds of projects in both internal and third party contexts over the past twenty years. He has setup and led Project Management Offices and has provided agile, project portfolio management and project management consulting services to hundreds of clients across multiple industries.

Kiron is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and served as a volunteer director on the Board of the PMI Lakeshore Chapter for six years. He has reviewed a number of recent PMI standards and practice guides including the Sixth and Seventh editions of the PMBOK® Guide.

Kiron has been published in both project management-specific journals as well as industry-specific journals. He has delivered hundreds of webinar presentations on a variety of project management and agile topics and has presented at multiple industry conferences.

In addition to a weekly blog, Kiron is a daily contributor to key LinkedIn and Projectmanagement.com project management discussion groups.

Connect with Kiron on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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E63 Building Global Project Management Communities with Priya Patra

October 7, 2020 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E63 Building Global Project Management Communities with Priya Patra

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E63 Building Global Project Management Communities with Priya Patra

How do you connect PMI chapters from around the world sharing industry trends and insights? Do you wonder about cultural differences delivering projects in different regions and countries? We explore these questions and more with Priya Patra who joined us live from India.

Priya is a mother of two, Author, Blogger, Women Empower believer, Dreamer, Creator and a Futurist, An Agile Evangelist and a Program Manager. She is also a community builder establishing the Women PowerUp Network and the PMI Chapter Xchange.

Priya shared the challenges of working in a global community as well as the benefits of building these communities. She shares her story of personal growth and the many benefits of supporting and joining industry groups. Listen to hear our conversation and learn more about her influence in the global project management industry.

Thanks to our sponsor THE PMO SQUAD. Visit www.thepmosquad.com to learn to Empower People to Deliver Results and assist your PMO as you evolve in the new post-COVID business world.

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Priya Patra is a mother of two, Author, Blogger, Women Empower believer, Dreamer, Creator and a Futurist. An Agile Evangelist and a Program Manager spearheading digital transformation, digital quality assurance and quality engineering program for a large conglomerate in Lifesciences domain.

She leads Agile Community of Practice within the organization of 546 members, across 40 countries evangelizing Agile practices across all levels in the organization and is
a speaker for national and International conferences on IoT, Agile and Project Management.

She is also a faculty member of The PM Circle, an unique community of project leaders, agilists, coaches and consultants. A circle of competence, knowledge and unique global perspectives.

Since Jan 2020, she has been building a women’s community, Women PowerUp Network, a virtual community of around 300 women across the globe. #BeingGoodEnougIsAmazing #WePowerUP

When she is not working, she dreams about the future of work, and its impact on projects. Her views are expressed through blogs on projectmanagement.com.

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E61 – Details of the Dramatic Changes to the PMBOK 7th Edition

September 8, 2020 by Karen

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E61 - Details of the Dramatic Changes to the PMBOK 7th Edition

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E61 – Details of the Dramatic Changes to the PMBOK 7th Edition

Are you familiar with the upcoming changes to the PMBOK? What do you think will be the impact to our profession and community? In this episode Cyndi Dionisio and Mike Griffiths share the details on the PMBOK 7th edition update.

After 50+ years and 6 editions of the PMBOK, PMI is taking the PMBOK 7th edition in a different direction. The changes to the Standard and Guide are meant to align with the evolution within the industry. The working draft is a move towards a Principled-based Standard to apply regardless of your delivery approach.

A focus of the 7th edition is to move from Outputs to Outcomes. This is a significant change to the approach as the Knowledge Areas and Process Groups will no longer be in the PMBOK. We learn instead about the 12 Principles and Performance Domains. The key point of the discussion is that the PMBOK is undergoing a major re-write and will make a significant impact on our profession and industry.

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Created for organizations looking for practical help and advice, Leading Answers is a coaching and training organization that advises on the best tools for the job at hand. Unlike organizations affiliated with one or more agile approaches, Leading Answers is entirely agnostic and specialize in creating optimal solutions for unique environments.

Mike Griffiths is an enthusiastic practitioner with a long history of contributions to the agile and project management community. He helped create the agile approach DSDM in 1994 and has been using agile approaches ever since.

He served on the board of the Agile Alliance, the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and remains active in the agile community. Mike is a frequent contributor to PMI standards and co-wrote the agile content for the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition.

He was chair of the author group for the PMI Agile Practice Guide. He also helped create the PMI-ACP Credential and wrote RMC’s PMI-ACP Exam Prep books. Mike is currently co-lead on the PMBOK® Guide 7th edition.

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Cynergy2 is a project management consulting, training development and training organization, with experience in working with government and commercial enterprises.

Cynthia Snyder Dionisio is a professional project management author, consultant, and instructor. Ms. Dionisio provides consulting and training services for LinkedIn Learning, academia, government and private industry.

An accomplished author and facilitator, she has written a dozen books on project management and trained thousands of project managers. Cynthia has been the Chair for three editions of the PMBOK® Guide.

In 2009 she was awarded PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award and in 2018 she was presented with the PMI Fellow Award.

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