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Creative Design & Project Management with Greg Storey
Greg Storey, COO of LexBlog and a long-time design leader, joins his friend Brett Harned to talk about how designers and project managers work together.
Time Limit podcast • 47 episodes
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Conversations with the people who actually run projects, about estimating, burnout, difficult clients and the parts of the job nobody documents.
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- EP 47Creative Design & Project Management with Greg Storey41 MINGreg Storey, COO of LexBlog and a long-time design leader, joins his friend Brett Harned to talk about how designers and project managers work together.
- EP 46Agency Operations & Project Management with Rob Harr42 MINRob Harr, VP of Sparkbox, talks agency operations with Brett Harned: the 'how' between sales and profit, why Sparkbox sells team availability rather than fixed scope, and how points and velocity keep clients in the loop.
- EP 45How to Grow and Lead a Business Successfully with Chris Dreyer30 MINChris Dreyer, CEO of the SEO agency Rankings.io, tells Brett Harned how he went from teaching and affiliate marketing to building a 21-person agency, why he structured it around strategists and project managers with strategic partners doing the production, and how he builds trust through radical transparency.
- EP 44Video Game Project Management with Tim Leinert35 MINTim Leinert, a producer and product owner at Swedish startup Mindforce Game Lab, tells Brett Harned about managing a health game for people living with depression and bipolar disorder.
- EP 43Improving Team Productivity with Nathan Gilmore44 MINTeamGantt co-founder Nathan Gilmore returns to talk with Brett Harned about productivity: choosing the right thing to work on, quarterly goals that cascade into plans, and reviewing goals every week.
- EP 42Empathy in Communication with Sharon Steed43 MINEmpathy consultant Sharon Steed, who stutters and uses that experience to teach communication, talks with Brett Harned about empathy as a verb.
- EP 41Bias in Estimation with Jacob Bodnar34 MINJacob Bodner, VP of Operations at the agency Maestro, talks with Brett Harned about cognitive bias in project management and especially in estimation.
- EP 40Remote Project Management with Ben Aston39 MINBen Aston, founder of thedigitalprojectmanager.com, joins Brett Harned in 2020 to talk about remote project management, from his early days coordinating outsourced teams abroad to running fully remote projects.
- EP 39Project Management Metrics with Anita Sagar40 MINAgile consultant Anita Sagar of Enterprise Knowledge talks with Brett Harned about shifting project metrics from outputs to outcomes and business value.
- EP 38Strategic Decision Making with Yoon Chung43 MINYoon Chung, who leads program management for product and UX at Veritas, makes the case to Brett Harned that project management is a strategic role and PMs are key influencers of decisions.
- EP 37Project Kickoff Meetings with Kayla Keizer32 MINKayla Keizer of Plank Design in Montreal joins Brett Harned to talk about kickoff meetings, which Plank runs as full-day 'hack days'.
- EP 36Innovation Process with John Carter42 MINProduct development expert John Carter, author of Innovate Products Faster and former Bose chief engineer, talks with Brett Harned about what innovation really is and how organisations can plan for it.
- EP 35Agency Project Management with Donna Sargeant36 MINOrdonna 'Donna' Sargeant, a program manager at Wunderman Thompson, compares notes with Brett Harned on agency project management: managing creative, content and offshore development teams on a website rebrand, the PM career ladder at a large agency, and how PMs earned a seat in scoping conversations with account management.
- EP 34Leading Change with Al Comeaux42 MINChange management consultant Al Comeaux, author of Change the Management, tells Brett Harned why two-thirds of change efforts fail and why leaders, not employees, are usually the reason.
- EP 33Getting Personal About Productivity with Theresa Ward37 MINProductivity and process consultant Theresa Ward joins Brett Harned ahead of World Productivity Day to define productivity as bearing fruit rather than churning through tasks.
- EP 32Conversation Design with Daniel Stillman48 MINDesign facilitator Daniel Stillman, author of Good Talk, talks with Brett Harned about conversation design: treating meetings, workshops and even Slack messages as a material you can shape.
- EP 31Breaking Down PM with Susie Palmer-Trew and Peter Taylor32 MINSusie Palmer-Trew and Peter Taylor, co-authors of Project Management: It's All Bollocks!, join Brett Harned to explain why the world of PM is annoying and confusing and how PMs can own the role anyway.
- EP 30Work-Life Balance with Dr. Travis Parry51 MINRecorded early in the 2020 lockdown, Brett Harned talks with Dr. Travis Parry of the Make Time Institute about work-life balance and productivity.
- EP 29Volunteering as a Project Manager with Sophie Brydon35 MINDigital PM Sophie Brydon tells Brett Harned how she volunteers as a project coordinator for The Hygiene Bank in Newcastle, helping build a grassroots charity that collects and distributes hygiene products.
- EP 28Accountability and the Leader With Sam Silverstein39 MINSam Silverstein, author of No More Excuses and six books on accountability, reframes the topic for Brett Harned: you are responsible for things but accountable to people, so accountability is keeping your commitments to people and is built on relationships.
- EP 27What Is Design Operations? with Philip Rowe32 MINPhilip Rowe, a UX program manager at Google, introduces design operations to Brett Harned: program management focused on design teams, sitting between product, engineering and UX.
- EP 26Why You Need a Plan with J. Scott48 MINJ. Scott, founder of 120VC and author of The Irreverent Guide to Project Management, argues to Brett Harned that you always need a plan, whether you call your approach agile, enterprise or blended.
- EP 25Johanna Rothman on Managing Distributed Teams41 MINJohanna Rothman, author of From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, explains to Brett Harned the difference between co-located, satellite, cluster and nebula teams and why she prefers everyone being remote.
- EP 24Lynn Winter on Avoiding Burnout32 MINDigital strategist Lynn Winter, founder of the Managed Digital conference, talks with Brett Harned about burnout in project management: what it is, why PMs are prone to it, and the physical signs she ignored until she left a toxic environment.
- EP 23PM Community with Christine Holcombe and Tracy Hennessy36 MINChristine Holcombe and Tracy Hennessy, organisers of the Kickass PM meetup in Austin, talk with Brett Harned about building a project management community.
- EP 22Susanne Madsen on Leadership vs. Management36 MINSusanne Madsen, author of The Power of Project Leadership, talks with Brett Harned about the difference between managing tasks and leading people, and the three mistakes that keep PMs from becoming leaders.
- EP 21Managing Design Process with Paul Boag35 MINUX expert Paul Boag joins Brett Harned to talk about how project managers can lead the design process, starting with his view that digital projects differ because data is abundant and the raw materials are free.
- EP 20Motivation with Ruth Pearce44 MINRuth Pearce, author of Be a Project Motivator, explains strengths-based project management to Brett Harned: using character strengths to understand what drives each team member and aligning work to it.
- EP 19What is a PMO? with Lindsay Scott40 MINLindsay Scott, director of PMO Learning and founder of the PMO Flashmob, explains to Brett Harned what a project management office is, when an organisation needs one, and how the UK and US models differ.
- EP 18Suze Haworth on Crafting Process27 MINConsulting digital delivery lead Suze Haworth, who has been telling agile conferences to 'forget agile', talks with Brett Harned about crafting your own blended process.
- EP 17Rich Maltzman and Jim Stewart on Facilitating Productive Meetings34 MINRich Maltzman and Jim Stewart, co-authors of How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings, talk with Brett Harned about why planning meetings are so rarely planned themselves.
- EP 16Dr. Sidjae Price on Estimating, Planning and People20 MINDr. Sidjae Price, CEO of Priceless Planning, talks with Brett Harned about why founders run their businesses in chaos and what makes estimating and planning hard.
- EP 15Neil Vass on Managing Teams31 MINNeil Vass, agile delivery manager at Co-op Digital in Manchester, talks with Brett Harned about how Co-op staffs and forms teams, runs multi-day inceptions with 'user manual for me' exercises, and uses communities of practice to spot skills gaps.
- EP 14Rachel Gertz on Project Management Education34 MINRachel Gertz of the Louder Than Ten apprenticeship joins Brett Harned to talk about project management education: what they wish they had known, what senior PMs should keep learning, and whether certifications like the PMP are worth it.
- EP 13Tera Simon on The Management Career Path26 MINTera Simon, delivery director at Globant, joins Brett Harned to talk about moving from managing projects to managing project managers.
- EP 12Crystal Richards on Social Politics33 MINCrystal Richards of The Mosaic Resource Group, who presented 'Survivor: How to Deal With Social Politics' at the Digital PM Summit, tells Brett Harned why office politics are unavoidable and how to tell healthy political awareness from office drama.
- EP 11Shawn Van Dyke44 MINConstruction business coach Shawn Van Dyke, author of The Paperwork Punch List and Profit First for Contractors, talks with Brett Harned about the two problems residential contractors bring him: not understanding the financials and not managing their time.
- EP 10Patrice Embry on Freelance Project Management30 MINFreelance project manager Patrice Embry tells Brett Harned how she went independent after agency overload, what services she sells, and how she gets up to speed fast with each new remote client team.
- EP 9Sam Barnes on The Project Management Career Path48 MINSam Barnes, development manager at Marks & Spencer and a long-time voice in the digital PM community, walks Brett Harned through his unplanned route from graphic design college and manual labour into front-end development and then project management at a small agency.
- EP 8Dave Prior on Agile27 MINCertified Scrum trainer Dave Prior of LeadingAgile joins Brett Harned to explain what agile really asks of an organisation, where it works, where it breaks and what a genuinely blended method looks like.
- EP 7Elizabeth Harrin on Communications and Collaboration30 MINElizabeth Harrin of girlsguidetopm.com, author of Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, talks with Brett Harned about why communication is harder for project managers than for operational teams and how to build a collaborative environment.
- EP 6Culture with Colin D. Ellis30 MINBrett Harned relaunches Time Limit in an interview format with Colin D. Ellis, author of The Conscious Project Leader, on culture and why great leadership is the foundation of good project management.
- EP 5Motivation20 MINTeamGantt's Brett Harned, Nathan Gilmore and John Correlli talk through why motivation matters and what managers can actually do about it, drawing on a website redesign that ran five years instead of two and on TeamGantt's own team.
- EP 4Working Remotely29 MINNow a full-time TeamGantt employee, Brett Harned joins Nathan Gilmore and John Correlli to talk about remote work: why TeamGantt has been remote since its basement days, what it does for focus and recruiting, and how to hire and manage people you rarely see in person.
- EP 3Project Estimation with Brett Harned29 MINAfter Brett Harned recounts his path from Razorfish and Happy Cog to founding the Digital PM Summit, the hosts dig into why estimating projects is so hard and the mistakes people make.
- EP 2Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid? with Brett Harned28 MINNathan Gilmore and John Correlli are joined by Brett Harned to compare agile, waterfall and hybrid ways of running projects and to ask who really works 100 percent agile.
- EP 1Work Smarter, Work Harder, Just Don't Work Longer28 MINTeamGantt co-founders Nathan Gilmore and John Correlli explain why the podcast is called Time Limit (the company was started in four hours a week) and make the case for setting a hard weekly hour limit for your team, with engineer Tyson Nero comparing 50-hour weeks at past employers to TeamGantt's 36-hour week.