Galen Low is joined by Olivia Montgomery, an Associate Principal Analyst at Capterra, to break down some of the most effective strategies for making the demo phase of your software selection process heaps more relevant to your organization’s specific needs.
Apr 20, 2022•54 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Galen Low is joined by Tim Creasey, CIO of Procsi, to explore ways that project managers and leadership teams can collaborate to give micro-innovations a seat at the table for more macro-level changes and how that can help a business thrive.
Mar 29, 2022•45 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Galen Low is joined by Alyson Caffrey, CEO of Operations Agency, to unpack exactly how to find that perfect interlock between ops team members and project managers to grow the business in a way that everyone on the team can benefit from.
Mar 21, 2022•53 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Galen Low is joined by Julia Rajic, the Senior Vice President of Operations at No Fixed Address Inc. to discuss the various career paths of a digital PM, how PMO leaders can support their teams’ professional growth, and whether being a digital PM can get you into the C-suite.
Feb 15, 2022•56 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Galen Low is joined by Julia Ryzhkova, the Product Manager at Railsware to discuss how one organization is successfully building complex software solutions using distributed, self-managing squads and what that means for digital project management at large.
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Galen Low is joined by Dharma Mehta, the Director of Program Management at Roku. Dharma shines a light on the impact an Enterprise Program Manager can have based on his career working in some of Silicon Valley’s most influential companies. Listen to learn the secrets of a high-performing enterprise delivery team.
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 18
Galen Low is joined by Olivia Montgomery, a Senior Analyst at Capterra. She shares how her blend of PM skill and background in social sciences helps her navigate personalities within IT projects. Listen to learn how psychology can make you a better PM.
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Galen Low is joined by Sarah Hoban, a project manager, product manager, and strategy consultant with 10+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams of engineers and business analysts to execute high-risk multi-million dollar projects. Listen to learn how DPMs are poised to influence the future of work.
Sep 28, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 16
Galen Low is joined by Shashwati Roy, a project manager by profession. She completed her Masters's in Statistics and has worked in the IT Industry ever since. She has extensive experience in the areas of Quality, Release, and Project Management. Listen to learn how to talk about risk and have every one listen.
Sep 14, 2021•53 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Galen Low is joined by Pam Butkowski, VP of Delivery Management at Hero Digital. She’s spent the majority of her career in client-facing organizations leading digital project management teams at organizations including The Nerdery, Wunderman Thompson, and AIM Consulting. Listen to learn how to make your value visible as an agency project manager.
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Galen Low is joined by Alexa Alfonso, DPM Expert and Manager of Client Engagement at The Nerdery. In her previous role as Director of Growth at Crema, Alexa made content creation a mandatory part of everyone's job. Listen to how she did it, what challenges she faced, and what impact it’s had on the team.
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Galen Low is joined by Bentzy Goldman, Founder, and CEO of Perflo , an innovative and fully distributed startup that helps project teams and their leaders stay aligned and collectively find ways of continuously improving team performance. Listen to learn how to leverage people data to run high-performance project teams.
Jul 20, 2021•59 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Galen Low is joined by Samantha Schak, founder of PM with Purpose which helps individuals and companies empower their project managers to unlock their full potential. As for side projects, Samantha produces a mental health podcast, But Have You Considered Therapy? Listen to learn how to create a psychologically safe team environment and why it matters.
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Galen Low is joined by Sally Shaughnessy, Director of Project Management at Aten Design Group, a digital agency based in Denver, Colorado, delivering full-service web projects for the public sector and non-profit clients. Listen to learn how to get the raise or promotion you know you’ve earned.
Jun 23, 2021•54 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Galen Low is joined by Laura Lussier, a lead technical project manager at 10up where she leveraged scrum agile methodologies to deliver large-scale digital content management projects. Listen as they share some meeting strategies and tips on how to navigate complex and politicized stakeholder environments.
May 18, 2021•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 9
Galen Low is joined by John Furneaux, CEO and co-founder of Hive to discuss John's recent article on how to keep meetings productive, collaborative, and clear so that you move the ball forward on your project every time. Here's a link to John's article on The Digital Project Manager: https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/bad-meetings-kill-good-projects-survivor-guide/
May 10, 2021•56 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Galen Low is joined by Candice Wyatt, director of project management at Red Door Interactive. Candice is a veteran delivery leader in both digital solution development and omnichannel brand communications. She has worked with brands including WD 40, Titleist, Bosch, Intuit, and Asics. In her spare time, she's also a writer and a proud supporter of girls in tech. Tune in as they discuss whether project management certifications are still valuable and how you can leverage them to get your maximum ...
Apr 19, 2021•42 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Galen Low is joined by Agile delivery champion, Bill Moroz where they break down how to leverage enterprise data, to celebrate the success of your project and build long-lasting trust with your stakeholders and your team.
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Galen Low chats with Marcel Petitpas, CEO of Parakeeto, a tool that makes sense of historical data to help produce estimates for agencies and in-house teams alike. Tune in to learn about the qualitative side of data-driven estimation and how you can build a culture of data-driven estimation to avoid unique snowflake situations.
Mar 31, 2021•59 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Ben Aston is joined by Lee Goff, Digital Agency Coach, Automation Consultant and Founder of MarketingAgencyCoach.com . Listen as they share tips and tricks on developing an effective sales systems to convert leads to new business for your agency.
Mar 16, 2021•29 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Learn tips and tricks for humanizing your team resourcing process and boost long-term culture with agency operations guru, Morgan Megannety.
Feb 16, 2021•51 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Learn to hire and grow DPMs who are technical enough to own complex projects with VP, Professional Services at Oomph, Matthew O’Bryant.
Feb 05, 2021•46 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Learn how to use project milestones to empower teams, drive product-market fit, and build trust with innovator and TCGen founder John Carter.
Jan 12, 2021•42 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Calling herself a "professional project untangler", Kim Wasson sums up years of experience consulting with teams in program management, project management, process management, and quality assurance in this podcast episode. Kim has developed deep expertise in software development methodologies and agile processes—and she has witnessed the impact of socially intelligent teams time and time again. In this episode, Kim explains what social intelligence is, why it's important, and practical examples ...
Oct 24, 2020•44 min
Learn how to maximize your team's time by creating workflows that streamline your project processes from Unito Founder and CEO Marc Boscher.
Oct 10, 2020•31 min
How to bridge the gap between exploration and launch? Douglas Ferguson, entrepreneur and human-centered technologist, gives a 6 step plan to follow after a design sprint so you can release something into the wild.
Sep 25, 2020•50 min
Learn from agile coacher, speaker, and author Jeff Gothelf about working backwards to go forward with less risk and more confidence in your projects.
Sep 01, 2020•49 min
Create an agile framework for your org—learn from David Bishop, technologist, consultant, entrepreneur, and author of a book on a novel concept called "Metagility".
Aug 01, 2020•42 min
Discover how to reduce complexity and confusion by breaking down your projects into bite-sized pieces that everyone can understand.
Jul 25, 2020•41 min
Discover why scope statements will save your (project) bacon. Learn how to write bullet-proof scope statements, and use them in your projects.
Jul 18, 2020•40 min