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The Digital Project Manager

The Digital Project Manager is the home of digital project management inspiration, how-to guides, tips, tricks, tools, funnies, and jobs. We provide project management guidance for the digital wild west where demanding stakeholders, tiny budgets and stupid deadlines reign supreme.

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Episodes

How To Select Project Management Software The Right Way In 2023

Galen Low is joined by Joe Ateya—Lead Software Advisor at SoftwareSelect—to talk about project management software and the journey that nearly every organization faces to get from sustained pain to sustainable efficacy through tools and technology.

Jul 19, 202341 min

How to Unlock Your Best PM Self Through Community

How can you become the best PM you can be? In this episode, host Michael Mordak is joined by Matthew Fox—Independent Consultant—to talk about how community has impacted his professional career and why you should definitely get involved in adventure racing.

Jul 14, 202319 min

How To Build Your Brand Through A PM Community

Michael Mordak is joined by Patrice Embry—Freelance Project Manager & Certified Scrum Master—to talk about how community has impacted her professional career and helped her build her own brand as a freelance project manager.

Jun 28, 202314 min

How Digital Communities Help You Win At Work

Galen Low is joined by Michael Mordak—Community Producer at The Digital Project Manager—to announce a new podcast series—The Spotlight Series—about real digital project managers and their stories. Michael shares how this new series will spark new ideas, shed light on the inner workings of our industry, and provide a truly human perspective to your own journey.

Jun 28, 202315 min

How To Develop The Next Generation Of Top Project Managers

Galen Low is joined by Barbara Kephart—Founder of Projects Pivot—to talk about the "project managers" that don't yet know they're project managers and how businesses can identify and groom individuals like these to become top performers in their project management practice.

May 31, 202349 min

How To Build Long-Term Loyalty With Virtual Contractors

Galen Low is joined by Natasha Golinsky—Founder and Lead Technical Project Manager at On Purpose Projects—to talk about how you can build a loyal, high-performing team from an otherwise disparate, rag-tag group of remote contractors.

May 18, 202349 min

The 3 Growth Levers Of Agile Strategy

Galen Low is joined by Simon Severino—CEO & Founder of Strategy Sprints—to break down the processes behind an agile business and how you can make agile strategy a reality for your own.

Apr 27, 202345 min

The Future Of The PMP, What It Lacks, And How To Fill The Gaps

Galen Low is joined by Crystal Richards—Principal & Owner of MindsparQ—to highlight what skills a PMP certification doesn't necessarily teach you, how to fill those gaps through professional development, and what the future holds for PMI and the PMP designation.

Mar 13, 202329 min

Getting PMP Certified (And Why It Matters)

Galen Low is joined by Crystal Richards—Principal & Owner of MindsparQ—to talk about what it means to become a certified project management professional, dispelling common misconceptions about the PMP, and digging in to some of the often overlooked advantages of certification.

Mar 01, 202319 min

How to Optimize your Project Management Portfolio

Galen Low is joined by Michelle Watkins—Founder & Managing Partner at Global PMO Partners—to talk about project portfolio management, how to optimize it, and how to get executive buy-in for investing in a tool that helps your projects and businesses run better.

Feb 14, 202335 min

Invisible PM Skills (And How To Hone Them)

Galen Low is joined by Jen Dary—a leadership coach, speaker, and founder of Plucky—to talk about those crucial but otherwise adjacent and invisible skills that separate the great project managers from the rest of the pack.

Jan 26, 202340 minSeason 7Ep. 2

How To Modernize RACI And Get Team Buy-In

Galen Low is joined by Cassie Solomon—an organizational change and digital transformation leader and author of “Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys To Making Change Work”—to talk about roles and responsibilities and whether a good old RACI chart is still an effective way to achieve clarity on who does what within your team and across your organization.

Jan 10, 202346 minSeason 7Ep. 1

Humanizing Rapid, Relentless Change

Galen Low is joined by Jon Brombley—Product And Operations Leader at Container Exchange Services—to share his experiences with rapid, relentless change and how he found a way to thrive within it.

Dec 13, 202246 minSeason 6Ep. 20

Getting A Seat At The Table Of Strategic Planning

Galen Low is joined by Olivia Montgomery—champion of the social sciences, a former PMO director, and a published thought leader—to talk about strategic planning and whether project management has a place at the table.

Nov 28, 202257 minSeason 6Ep. 19

Delivering AI Projects

Galen Low is joined by Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch—the managing partners and lead analysts behind Cognilytica, and the hosts of AI Today—to lift the lid on why AI projects fail and why responsible project management is so important to the success of artificial intelligence.

Nov 23, 202253 minSeason 6Ep. 18

Can Sales And Delivery Teams Get Along? (with Nick Wilkinson from Steamclock)

Galen Low is joined by Nick Wilkinson—the Client Partnerships Manager at Steamclock Software—to talk about the tension between business development teams and project delivery teams and how to make that a healthy tension that pushes your organization forward instead of creating drag.

Nov 10, 202249 minSeason 6Ep. 17

Developing A Change Mindset (with Melody MacKeand from Teamwork)

Galen Low is joined by Melody MacKeand—a platform rollout specialist and change management champion—to talk through the change management process and how project managers can benefit from developing a change mindset.

Oct 25, 202248 minSeason 6Ep. 16

Why It’s Getting Harder To Land A PM Role

Galen Low is joined by Jeff Chamberlain—a seasoned IT project management consultant—to tell us what’s different about getting a job as a PM today and shares his tips on how to get yourself noticed.

Oct 11, 202258 minSeason 6Ep. 15

Measuring Busyness Vs Measuring Results

Galen Low is joined by Fred Fowler—a Level 3 certified Scrum master who has published multiple books on the Scrum methodology—to teach us how to stop measuring busyness and start measuring outcomes.

Sep 27, 202247 minSeason 6Ep. 14

5 Tips For Managing Multiple Projects

Galen Low is joined by Elizabeth Harrin—an award-winning blogger and author of several books about project and change management—to break down the five tips for managing multiple projects effectively so you can stop sacrificing your evenings and weekends.

Sep 12, 202258 minSeason 6Ep. 13

The Role Of Project Management In Business Development

Galen Low is joined by Christian Banach—an agency veteran and fierce entrepreneur who grew his own agency into 7-figure revenue—to explain why having a business development mindset can be a game changer for project managers and walks us through his proven framework.

Aug 24, 202256 minSeason 6Ep. 12

PMBOK 7th Edition And The PM Revolution (with Jesse Fewell)

Galen Low is joined by Jesse Fewell—Founder of Fewell Innovation—shares his story of contributing to the 7th edition of PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge and discusses the implications of the trends in project management that it reflects.

Aug 02, 202254 minSeason 6Ep. 11

PM Software: Shiny Objects or Gamechangers?

Galen Low is joined by Gray Mackenzie, Co-Founder of ZenPilot, to talk about project management software, whether or not you really need it, and things to avoid when selecting the right tool for your team.

Jul 12, 202255 minSeason 6Ep. 10

Is Digital PMing Really A Thing? (with Brett Harned)

Galen Low is joined by Brett Harned, Digital PM Consultant and Founder of The Digital PM Summit, to dive into two questions we get all the time: what is digital project management, and how is it different from other types of project management?

Jun 29, 202244 minSeason 6Ep. 9

Noticing Joy: Leading with Human Centered Project Management

Galen Low is joined by Courtney Johnston, the Director of Community Engagement at The Digital Project Manager, to talk about why keeping humans at the center of digital project management is so important and what results you can expect if you do it right.

Jun 22, 202247 minSeason 6Ep. 8

3 Warning Signs Your Digital Transformation Is About To Stall

Galen Low is joined by Bill Moroz, Senior Project Manager at WMA Inc., to break down the most common warning signs that your transformation is in jeopardy and arm you with practical tips on how to respond accordingly to keep the momentum going.

May 31, 202236 minSeason 6Ep. 7
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