131: Don't be the PM everyone hates, with Rachel Losser
Your worst project management habit might also be your superpower — the trick is knowing which one you're wielding, and when. What actually...
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20 of 137 episodes130: Rigged bids, fake deadlines, and going 181x over budget
A $6.9 million estimate. A $1.25 billion catastrophe. How fake deadlines, a rigged bid, and a steering committee allergic to bad news turned...
129: How Credibility Starts with Curiosity, with Noel Nicole Ransom
Why do perfectly logical, well-researched project plans still fail to win people over? It's one of the most frustrating forms of project fai...
128: Your project can't possibly be as bad as working for Mr Beast, Part 2
Ever worked on a project that felt like a complete disaster... only for leadership to call it a huge success? In Part 2 of our Mr. Beast ser...
127: Your project can't possibly be as bad as working for Mr Beast, Part 1
Ever worked with a stakeholder who changes direction faster than your project plan can keep up? Then this episode may feel a little too fami...
126: "What's your AI Strategy?" Handling the Executive who wants AI in everything
You know the moment. Your project plan is solid. The scope is defined. The team is ready. Then an executive walks by and casually asks: "Can...
125: How to survive the AI landscape as a PM with PMI's Dr Kelly Heuer
AI is changing work fast enough to give every project manager emotional whiplash. New tools, new workflows, new expectations… and somehow yo...
124: Drowning in Tasks: How Successful PMs Organize the Chaos
If your to-do list is 47 items long, your Slack won't shut up, and you ended the day thinking, "Cool… but what did I actually accomplish?"—w...
123 - Hungry Hungry HPPOs - managing loud personalities with Evan Unger
If your weekly calendar looks like the loser in a state fair quilt competition - just solid blocks of mismatched colors with no room to brea...
122 - Kate puts Kim through the worst meeting hells our listeners could dream up: a PM HappyHour role play
Boss fights and boardrooms. Kate puts Kim through meeting hell in this tabletop roleplay episode. Kate: "Help me torture Kim." That was the...
121 - Top Shelf Replay: Embracing the Escalation
Escalation : it's a word that can make even experienced project managers tense. But what if you approached it as a tool rather than a threat...
120 - How smart teams talk themselves into Failure, with Dr. Bill Brantley
Why do smart teams still deliver failed projects? Most project failures don't begin with a catastrophic mistake. Instead, they begin with sm...
119 - TSR: They told me I'm 'too nice'??
Have you ever gotten feedback that made you want to flip a table because it was both insulting and totally useless? In this Top Shelf Replay...
118 - PM Turf Wars: Sharing your projects with other Project Managers
"Three PMs walk into a bar: a business PM, an IT PM, and a Vendor PM…" Sounds like a bad joke, but if you don't get it right - the joke will...
117 - Top Shelf Replay: Say No by Saying Yes
Project managers are constantly told they need to "learn how to say no." But in the real world—especially when the ask comes from a sponsor,...
116 - How to quit your job and completely fail as a PM contractor
Thinking about going contractor ? Kate and Kim share how they each left corporate and made the leap—two very different stories (burnout vs a...
115 - Top Shelf Replay: Trust Bricks
As project managers, we spend a lot of time talking about tools, processes, and delivery frameworks—but far less time talking about the invi...
114 - Happy Hour Chatter: What PMs Really Do, Fear in Decision-Making, and Lessons from Going solo
Kim and Kate settle in for a classic PM Happy Hour episode — the kind where the drinks are metaphorical, the conversation is wandering in th...
113 - Top Shelf Replay: Stage direction in the boardroom
What happens when you drop a senior project manager into a room full of attorneys, tribal leaders, political operators, and massive personal...
112 - Burnout: when a 500k job isn't worth it, with Norlander Wilson
Kate didn't plan to measure their burnout by the number of bags of pink-and-purple Mother's animal cookies consumed at their desk…but here w...