Co-hosts Jeff Plumblee and Matt Stoltz are live today for the first Community of Practice live event! Jeff and Matt discuss with the group the meaning of project risk and how to respond to it through transference, acceptance, avoidance, or mitigation. Jeff and discussion group members Sunshine, Dan, Aaron, Kayla, Gabe, and others bring up stories of project risks they’ve experienced and ask questions about managing risks. Jeff and Matt give perspective on cultural risks for projects in other...

Host, Jeff Plumblee interviews Lauren Selley, Director of Program Management at Y Media Labs. They discuss a variety of topics in program and project management. Besides managing programs, Lauren is a knowledge management evangelist. She also advocates for inclusivity in project management and getting women into tech. Lauren started in high school with HTML, customizing her MySpace page! She became a teacher, but from teaching, she jumped into project management as a business analyst for a...

Host, Matthew Stoltz, VP of Marketing, and “Bucky” Jobe, VP of Operations at Moovila,  interview Heather Abel, project coordinator from Komatsu Mining Corporation, about Komatsu’s $285 million manufacturing facility project and new headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They discuss how autonomous project management technology has helped Komatsu stay on track. Heather shares how she became the Project Coordinator for building the new corporate campus — the largest project in the history of...

Host, Jeff Plumblee, interviews Kayla Williams about project management and her career path. Kayla moved from the offices of auto dealerships to software account manager, implementation manager, product manager, and finally, project manager. She tells why project manager is the right job for her. She shares her notable successes, including a near-failure. Kayla reveals her favorite tools and procedures and how she guards her time to stay at her best. Listen in for ideas on the work to do...