Personal Branding – Episode 34 Project Shrink Podcast

In episode 34 of The Project Shrink Dave Garrett (Gantthead.com) is talking about personal branding. He’s discussing how to demonstrate/prove your specific expertise online in a way that people will link to it as a reference point. You can click here if the episode isn’t displayed below. This recording is the final part of a …

Why You Should Know What You’re About

“Know thyself” – Temple of Apollo at Delphi “I thought this was a blog about Project Management… uhm … Project Leadership?” Thanks for bringing that up. Yes it is. In my view a project is nothing more than a bunch of people interacting together to achieve a certain goal. And it’s the role of the …

The Real Project Shrink.

It’s weird when people know you from your blog. Conversations get strange. You’ve never met a person, yet you think you know them. You associate them with the agile crowd, the lean posse, the social media gurus or any other label in existence. And presto, you have a whole set of assumptions about your conversation …

Personal Branding For Project Managers

In episode 29 of The Project Shrink Podcast I am talking to Dave Prior about Project Managers and Personal Branding. Dave is the author of the Drunken PM blog, PMP, Scrum Trainer and past chair of the PMI IT&T SIG and this is his second appearance on my podcast. We discuss the following questions: Why …

Project Shrink Rerun: Knowing And Promoting Yourself

On “Project Shrink” a recurring theme is “knowing and promoting yourself“. The following postings are among my favorites within this topic: Marketing: Tech People Hate It. Boy Are They Going To Need It! “If your are into software project management, you are into marketing. If you are planning to keep on working on software projects …