Ricardo Vargas

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Channel • 2 Shows

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23/09/2024

Mastering Delivery Cadence: Choosing the Right Rhythm for Your Project

In this podcast, Ricardo explains the concept of delivery cadence, which defines how and when a project delivers products or services. He describes four types: single delivery (everything delivered at the end, rarely used today), multiple delivery (milestones with variable timing), periodic delivery (timeboxed intervals like sprints), and continuous delivery (common in digital projects, where updates are released as soon as they are ready). Ricardo explains that using a delivery cadence improves project predictability by managing stakeholder expectations. Even large capital projects, such as power plants, do not rely on single deliveries, but rather on phased implementations for better financial viability. Listen to the podcast to learn more!

23/09/2024

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6 min
27 JUL

Cut the Talk, Keep the Impact: 5 Tips for Better Meetings in the times of AI

In this episode, Ricardo shares five tips to optimize meetings. First, keep them short and focused—long calls often waste time. Second, ask if a meeting is truly necessary; many decisions can be handled via Slack or email. Third, when a meeting is needed, send a clear agenda and define objectives in advance. Fourth, use AI tools to record and summarize meetings so participants can focus on the discussion. Tools like Claude help create action-based summaries. Fifth, assign a facilitator to keep the meeting on track and ensure outcomes turn into actions. Finally, gather team feedback to improve future meetings. Effective meetings can truly accelerate project success. Listen to the podcast to learn more!

27 Jul

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6 min
30/12/2024

Three Tips to Plan Holidays and Vacation Without Compromising your Project

Ricardo wraps up the year on the 5 Minutes Podcast, discussing recurring project delays during the holiday season, a predictable yet often overlooked challenge. He highlights the importance of planning to avoid issues caused by holidays and vacations, emphasizing that these situations occur annually and can be managed proactively. To address this, he stresses the need for practices that reduce pressure and provide better control over deadlines, ensuring quality time during celebrations. Ricardo underscores that learning from these challenges helps prevent repeating the same mistakes in the future. Listen to the podcast to know more.

30/12/2024

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7 min
22/05/2016

What are the Environmental Factors and the Organizational Process Assets of the PMBOK® Guide?

In this episode, Ricardo talks about two terms that appear very often throughout the PMBOK® Guide and usually generate a lot of questions from those who are starting in project management.

22/05/2016

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5 min
01/02/2016

World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report

In this episode, Ricardo explains that the risks report produced by the World Economic Forum is a source of rich information about global risks and can help a lot in during a project risk management. Download the report at http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2016/

01/02/2016

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7 min
11/07/2010

Born or Not to Born with Soft Skills? This is the Question

In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the soft skills of leadership. He gives tips to capitalize on these skills and explains the difference between being born with these skills or acquiring them with training.

11/07/2010

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6 min
09/12/2014

Building Highly Effective Teams – Part 1 of 2

In this podcast, Ricardo gives tips on how to transform a group of people in a highly effective team, a subject he addresses in his new book, in partnership with the author Michael Nir. Stay tuned for continuation of this podcast next week.

09/12/2014

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7 min
01/06/2014

Career in Project Management - Part 5 of 5: Ethics, Relationship and Final Messages

In this last episode of the series of 5 podcasts on career, Ricardo closes the 10 dimensions of career in project management subject, now addressing the ethics and relationship dimensions. He also gives his final messages about this series.

01/06/2014

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8 min
03/10/2021

How Fragile and Volatile are Businesses: The Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram Outage

This week we return to the theme from a few weeks ago, how technology projects are riskier than most people imagined. Surprised by the paralysis of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, we were more than left out of communication. The damage caused throughout the world by the hours out of the air on these platforms is incalculable. What to learn from what happened? How to deal with this dependence on companies today? Listen to this week's Podcast to know more.

03/10/2021

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6 min
13/02/2012

Understand the Difference between Residual and Secondary Risks

In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the difference between the secondary risk and residual risk. He explains that the secondary risk is generated as a side effect the implementation of a response. Residual risk is one that remains, even after implementing responses. Ricardo gives several examples for these two types of risks.

13/02/2012

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7 min

Since 2007, Ricardo Vargas has been publishing the 5 Minutes Podcast, where he addresses in a quick and practical way the main topics on project management, business agility, risk and crisis management, among other topics.

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Mastering Delivery Cadence: Choosing the Right Rhythm for Your Project

Cut the Talk, Keep the Impact: 5 Tips for Better Meetings in the times of AI

Three Tips to Plan Holidays and Vacation Without Compromising your Project

What are the Environmental Factors and the Organizational Process Assets of the PMBOK® Guide?

World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report

Born or Not to Born with Soft Skills? This is the Question

Building Highly Effective Teams – Part 1 of 2

Career in Project Management - Part 5 of 5: Ethics, Relationship and Final Messages

How Fragile and Volatile are Businesses: The Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram Outage

Understand the Difference between Residual and Secondary Risks

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