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...
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Listen to Project Management Happy Hour, a Business podcast by Kim Essendrup and Kate Anderson. Stream 130 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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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...
111 - Top Shelf Replay: How do you start a hard conversation?
Ever freeze up in a tough project conversation? Or worse—blow it up? In this episode of Project Management Happy Hour, Kim and Kate revisit...
110 - Are you defining project success wrong? Most PM's do! With PMI's Dave Garrett
Are you defining project success the wrong way ? Most project managers are — at least according to PMI's Dave Garrett . Project Management H...
109 - Top Shelf Replay: The Wolf - how to take over broken projects
Ever been dropped into a troubled project that's already gone off the rails? Welcome to life as " The Wolf. " Inspired by the fixer from Pul...
108 - Why Risk Management? Future You Will Thank You
Why bother with risk management when you can just deal with problems as they happen? In this episode, Kim and Kate dig into the heart of tha...
107 - Top Shelf Replay: The Closer - Avoiding Project Acceptance Exception
Please. Let it end. PLEASE! A defining characteristic of a project is that it ends. Finally. Just finish it, right? If it were only that eas...
106 - Finish Strong: Why the End of Your Project Matters Most
Projects aren't remembered for how they started —they're remembered for how they ended . In this PM Happy Hour episode, Kim Essendrup and Ka...
105 - Top Shelf Replay: How to Deal with Stupid Executive Asks
Ah, executives. They fund your project, cheer you on, and sometimes… ask for things that make you want to slam your head into your Gantt cha...