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Projectified[R] is your guide to the future of project management. Created by Project Management Institute, this podcast is for people who lead strategic initiatives and collaborate on teams to deliver value to their organizations. It features dynamic thought leaders and practitioners who share their real-world experiences and expertise to inform, inspire and prepare you for success.

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    • 4.6 • 199 Ratings

Projectified[R] is your guide to the future of project management. Created by Project Management Institute, this podcast is for people who lead strategic initiatives and collaborate on teams to deliver value to their organizations. It features dynamic thought leaders and practitioners who share their real-world experiences and expertise to inform, inspire and prepare you for success.

    Support System: Empowering Project Professionals to Find Better Ways of Working

    Support System: Empowering Project Professionals to Find Better Ways of Working

    In today’s ever-evolving project environment, project professionals need to be flex-ready problem solvers. But how do they learn to choose the right ways of working—or know when to anticipate the need to adapt to change? Guests discuss how they empower project professionals at their organizations to become strategic decision makers—whether it means tailoring ways of working to fit projects and teams or implementing new tech tools.

    Key themes
    [02:19] Updating CDW’s PMO for greater collaboration, knowledge sharing and upskilling among project professionals 
    [05:34] How continuous learning encourages greater autonomy 
    [08:21] Empowering project professionals with clear guidelines, expectations and ownership of initiatives 
    [13:13] Delegation and trust: Two must-haves for empowering project and program managers 
    [14:52] How Airbus’ engineering PMO focuses on tailored, empathetic project support
    [17:42] Why empowerment leads to better engagement and project outcomes
    [19:56] What you need to know to choose the right ways of working for your team
    [21:46] How PMO leaders can encourage teams to embrace unknowns in new tech or ways of working

    • 23 min
    Women in AI: Pursuing Project Careers in Tech

    Women in AI: Pursuing Project Careers in Tech

    There’s a glaring gender gap, in both artificial intelligence and project management. But as demand for AI talent surges, there’s an opportunity to close those gaps. Ahead of International Women’s Day, our guests discuss the gender gaps they’ve experienced in their careers in tech, how greater team diversity helps minimize algorithmic biases in AI projects, what they’ve learned from leading AI initiatives and building their AI expertise, and ways to help more women pursue careers in AI.

    Key themes
    [02:36] Bridging the gender gap: How diversity benefits AI initiatives
    [05:21] Identifying and mitigating risks in generative AI projects
    [07:52] Top advice to women in tech: Know your worth, be yourself and continue to learn
    [12:55] Building AI knowledge in a changing business landscape
    [16:15] Minimizing AI algorithmic biases with multiple perspectives
    [19:08] Ways to help more women kickstart their careers in AI

    • 25 min
    Level Up Your Project Management Career with Continuous Learning

    Level Up Your Project Management Career with Continuous Learning

    Continuous learning helps project professionals keep up with the skills they need to excel in the profession—but it has to be done strategically. Guests discuss how to create a flexible and durable continuous learning strategy, how to balance upskilling with day-to-day project and personal responsibilities, which skills they see as must-haves for project professionals—today and in the future—and how PMO leaders can help project professionals in their continuous learning journeys.

    Our guests include Alfred Maina, PMO-CP, PMI-ACP, PMP, technical project manager, Thunes, Nairobi; and Americo Pinto, PMO-CC, PMO-CP , PMP, managing director, PMO Global Alliance at PMI, Rio de Janeiro.

    Key themes
    [02:13] How to craft a continuous learning strategy
    [06:12] Where to find upskilling opportunities
    [07:19] Balancing work, personal time and continued learning
    [10:20] Top skills to improve: technical and power skills, plus artificial intelligence know-how
    [15:33] Why your continuous learning strategy should be flexible
    [18:18] Using formal and informal education opportunities to upskill
    [20:17] How to determine which skills to improve—and how much organizational objectives should be a factor
    [24:27] Ways PMO leaders can help project professionals create and meet their continuous learning goals

    • 28 min
    How Volunteering Can Transform Communities—and Your Career

    How Volunteering Can Transform Communities—and Your Career

    Volunteering helps communities and organizations. But it also helps the volunteers who donate their time and skills. In a roundtable discussion, guests share how they started volunteering, how it has affected their careers and helped them grow as project professionals, the different ways they have taught project management skills to make initiatives run more efficiently and their advice to others looking to start their own community volunteering journey.

    Our guests include Lebogang Ngoato, PMP, program manager, Absa Group, Johannesburg; Priya Patra, PMP, director, Capgemini, Mumbai, India; and Silvana Tovar, international trade coordinator, Kenvue, São Paulo.

    Key themes
    [01:52] Why start volunteering? Three professionals share their stories
    [06:57] How volunteering can boost project professionals’ careers
    [11:25] The value of sharing your project management skills
    [14:07] How volunteering can help professionals upskill
    [18:20] Keeping volunteers motivated to work on outside projects
    [20:44] Advice for potential volunteers: share your knowledge, be honest about your availability and keep an open mind

    • 24 min
    AI Projects: The Big Benefits for Organizations

    AI Projects: The Big Benefits for Organizations

    Artificial intelligence is now a mainstay for organizations. But given the lack of widespread use across enterprises, there’s room for growth. And project teams are leading the way, developing AI solutions that deliver value to their companies and customers. We discuss this with: 
    Mohammed Nabtiti, PMI-RMP, PMP, project management office and governance manager, Beeah Group, Dubai: Nabtiti discusses how his company created its “Office of the Future” with sustainability, AI and smart office technologies as the driving forces, how the team mitigated and managed risks to integrate several AI systems, how the organization determines accountability for AI outputs, and how he’s taking lessons learned about scoping and planning into future AI projects.
    Sanjukta Ghosh, PMP, data and AI leader, Siemens AG, Munich: Ghosh discusses how she started her AI journey by solving customer problems, the knowledge project professionals need to manage AI initiatives and how she’s working to standardize AI projects across Siemens’ business units. Plus, Ghosh talks about a project to create digital twins for assets in the process industry using AI and engineering documents.


    Key themes
    [02:01] Creating a sustainable, AI-driven “Office of the Future”
    [04:49] From smart meeting rooms to a digital concierge: Building the business case for which AI tech to use in the workplace
    [07:44] Identifying and managing risks when integrating multiple AI systems
    [10:43] Determining who is accountable for AI systems’ decisions
    [14:08] How scoping and planning affect AI projects
    [17:34] Skills and knowledge project professionals need to lead AI initiatives
    [18:33] Standardizing AI projects across an enterprise
    [22:05] Creating digital twins from AI tech and documentation
    [26:52] Project professionals must stay up-to-date on tech advancements

    • 28 min
    Project Professionals Making a Positive Impact

    Project Professionals Making a Positive Impact

    We know that projects drive change, and today, more and more project professionals are managing initiatives to deliver positive impacts across the globe. Two 2023 PMI Future 50 leaders—Johnnie Stark, PMP, a project manager at BP in London, and Nuha Hashem, co-founder and CTO at Zywa in Dubai—discuss why the world needs project professionals, what sparked their passion to lead the innovative projects they’re managing today and their top advice for future project professionals.
    Key themes
    [01:59] Igniting a passion for project leadership
    [04:33] Developing a low-carbon energy solution to help the U.K. decarbonize its electricity grid
    [07:11] Creating a payment platform to boost financial literacy for Gen Z in the Middle East and North Africa
    [10:20] How project management is changing—and how project professionals can adapt
    [11:47] Advice for future project leaders: Be flexible, be willing to dive right in and care for team members’ well-being

    • 17 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
199 Ratings

199 Ratings

Gay&Sweaty ,

You don’t want to miss this!

This is a vital podcast for project leaders and collaborators. Every episode features top experts and real-world experiences to prepare you for success. Don't miss it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

AQP101 ,

Please do podcasts relevant to COVID-19 fight

There are numerous large-scale, unprecedented efforts underway to dig ourselves out of this pandemic. These are essentially some of the most complex, difficult, and urgent projects of our time and would be lovely to dig into.

Some things I would like to see covered:
-Vaccine development
-Therapy development
-Testing deployment
-PPE and medical equipment deployment

Are the most capable project management professionals helping execute these initiatives at light speed? How? What are there challenges?

Sam Motes ,

Tap into the pulse of the PM profession

Excellent way to keep up with the winds of change impacting the PM profession and stay motivated to deliver strategic innovation as you battle the day to day project challenges.

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