Podcast #47. What Is Kanban? Interview With LeanKit.

In this episode of The Project Shrink podcast I am talking to Jon Terry, COO of LeanKit, the online Kanban tool. We talk about Kanban: What is it? What are the benefits? How can you get started? LeanKit is a sponsor of The Project Shrink blog. Click here if you can’t see the video. Click …

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Podcast #46. Using Social Media. Two Years Later.

Dave Prior and I have talked in the past a lot about social media. I mean a lot. Check out my Youtube channel for a lot of conversations between us. Many conversations. Recently we discovered that neither of us is active on Google+. We don’t want to. Has something changed? What happened? To social media? …

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What Makes A Culture A “Project Culture”?

What makes a culture a “project culture”? I wonder why I haven’t raised this question sooner. Hmmm. Here is my shot at it. A “culture” is about the shared notion of “how we do things around here”, shared values, assumptions and beliefs. So. A “project culture” is about the shared notion of “how we do …

‪The Private Life of Project Managers‬.

For almost four years there is a conversation in the comments of The Project Shrink that pops up once in a while. It’s one of my favorites. Why do we do what we do? Are our industry’s best practices really that, or do we merely say they are because as a PM we are expected …