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		<title>Podcast episode 057:  Tom Peters Speaks Out about Toyota Recalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently joined by best selling author and Management guru Tom Peters to discuss his perspective on the Toyota recalls.  Tom and I also talked about where other major companies such as Dell, Starbucks, Nike, Apple, Google, GM, IBM, Johnson &#038; Johnson, and Honda fall on that elusive spectra known as "Excellence".  By the way, if somehow you have not heard of Tom Peters:  Simply put, Tom Peters is the last of the still living and truly great 20th Century management thought leaders and, incidentally, is more relevant in today's business environment than ever before.]]></description>
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		<title>What we can learn from &#8220;Undercover Boss&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Okay, so I just got around to watching the debut of the new CBS reality show, Undercover Boss, which I recorded after the Superbowl on Sunday evening. I am really not a fan of reality shows, although I did watch the first season of The Apprentice back in 2004 since it had project managers competing to secure a single lucrative position of overseeing the building of Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, Illinois. After watching the first few episodes of The Apprentice, I actually felt anxious.  I think that The Donald’s continual criticizing, interrupting, and “you’re fired” climaxes of each board room episode of The Apprentice struck a little too close to reality for me.  I have never been fired, but I have been in my share of meetings and board rooms where politics are at play, people’s defenses are bristling, and at times career paths are changed.  I have found that these corporate situations often have an appearance more like a scene from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast episode 052:  it&#8217;s okay to be RACI!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail If you like us, give us a 5 star review in iTunes! In Episode 004 and Episode 051 we discussed the Work Breakdown Structure and how it can help you as a team to clearly document your project’s deliverables.  But once you have completed your WBS, what’s next?  Well the next step is to develop a Responsibility Assignment Matrix, or RAM, using the RACI process.  I think you are going to find this to be a valuable tool to help clarify ownership to various parts of your project.  Soon your entire team will be RACI! Define Activities Process After you identify your deliverables in your Work Breakdown Structure, you will need to define those actions and activities that need to be done to produce the lowest level deliverables.  This is the first process in the PMBOK Time Management Knowledge Area and is known as the Define Activities Process.  In Episode 004 on Work Breakdown Structures we provided an example of a project of doing laundry.  A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast episode 046:  schedule killers &#8211; parkinson&#8217;s law</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Get the pm411.org Project Management Podcast Newsletter delivered by email for free! &#8211; Your email address and personal information are confidential and will never be sold or rented. Today we continue our series on Schedule Killers – those tendencies and traits of project teams that cause us to miss our deadlines!  Last episode we discussed “The Student Syndrome,” which is defined as “the phenomenon that many people will start to fully apply themselves to a task just at the last possible moment before a deadline.”   Today we talk about “Parkinson’s Law.” What is Parkinson’s Law? Parkinson’s Law, as it is known today, started as the first sentence of an essay that Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote for The Economist in 1955.  Parkinson was a British naval historian, public administration scholar, and author of over sixty books.  Parkinson’s claim that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” later was expanded to include how work expands in bureaucracies in his bestselling 1957 book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast episode 045:  schedule killers &#8211; student syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we will be starting a series on Schedule Killers – those tendencies and traits of project teams that cause us to miss our deadlines!  And the first schedule serial killer of project teams that we will be discussing is called… “The Student Syndrome!”

In this episode we cover:

1.)  What is Student Syndrome?
2.)  What Causes Student Syndrome?
3.)  How to Cure it]]></description>
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		<title>How To Avoid &#8220;Stopping The Line&#8221; On Deliverables</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Today&#8217;s guest blogger, Brian Buck, is an Organizational Improvement Consultant and Project Manager in the healthcare industry.  He is studying for the PMP and hopes his three year experience requirement kicks in before the new PMBOK comes out (or else he will have to study some more)!  He specializes in Lean improvements and loves to integrate the concepts into Project Management.  He blogs at http://www.improvewithme.com/. Have you ever had a project team member miss a deadline or give a below quality deliverable?  Could the timing or quality have been saved if the team member had asked for help before the deadline? Toyota and their Lean methodology have pioneered Andon systems to call out trouble before a production line is forced to be stopped.  The same concept can help prevent a project from stalling. Simplified, if a line worker spots a quality problem (their own or passed on to them) and they know they will run over their allotted time, they pull an Andon cord.  This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US olympic teamwork and Michael Phelps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail   There is quite a lot that we can learn as project managers from the United States Olympic win in the 400m freestyle relay on Sunday. 1.) Stay focused only on the task at hand How often do you or your team members lose focus on your project deliverables?  Don&#8217;t get distracted by naysayers or detractors that tell you that your project will never succeed.  Focus only on doing the job that you are getting paid to do and do it to the very best of your abilities.  French swimmer, Alain Bernard, the previous holder of the 100-meter record, lost his focus by announcing to the media that his relay team would &#8220;smash&#8221; the Americans and stop Michael Phelps&#8217; bid for a historic eight gold medals in one Olympics.  This trash talk only seemed to fire up the US team and bring them closer together in their goal of winning the gold.  And the US didn&#8217;t lose their focus by shooting back at the French.  They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be accountable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Lazymale is our first guest blogger on pm411.org.  But don&#8217;t let his name fool you &#8211; he keeps busy as a Program Manager at a software services firm where he manages a team of 50 people both offshore and in the United States.  Yet he still has time to keep up his own blog at www.lap31.com!  Lazymale describes his lap31.com blog as being about &#8221;laps in this race of a lifetime&#8230; of the laps we covered and the laps that remain&#8230; of struggles, commitment and leadership&#8230; of teamwork and trust&#8230; of learning from mistakes to creating success stories and winning&#8230; Are we prepared for what&#8217;s ahead?  Are we ready to lead?&#8221;  You can reach Lazymale at lazymale@lap31.com. I&#8217;d like to think that I am a very good driver, if not an expert. Even then once in a while, I miss a red light, I over speed and sometimes even make a wrong turn. Does that mean I should quit driving altogether? I don&#8217;t think so. I need to be aware [...]]]></description>
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