The Project Management Podcast
The Project Management Podcast, hosted by Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, CSM, features interviews with global project management experts who share insights and actionable advice. Aimed at both beginners and experienced professionals, each episode provides practical tips to improve project leadership and integrate best practices. The podcast helps listeners become more effective project managers by applying the latest industry insights.
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Episode 561: Leading AI Projects from Strategy to Reality
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Artificial intelligence projects need more than a promising tool and an ambitious rollout plan. In episode 561, Cornelius Fichtner speaks with Erin Hill, Provost at Austin Christian University and a strategic consultant with experience implementing AI across higher education, legal, and financia
Episode 560: Hands-On Flexible Project Leadership: Build Your Leadership Playbook (Premium Preview)
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Flexible leadership sounds straightforward until a proj
Episode 559: Why AI Projects Get Worse Before They Get Better
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David Luria, author of Flatten the AI J Curve: Your Unfair Advantage in the Race to Enterprise Adoption, brings a practical conversation about what happens when an AI pilot moves into real operational use. Luria, a vice president and business manager at T. Rowe Price and a Six Sigma Black Belt,
How to Get 14.5 Free PDUs Courtesy of Your Employer
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There is a decent chance your employer has already paid for your next 14.5 PDUs. You just have not claimed them.
My course Artificial Intelligence for Project Managers has been added to the Udemy Business collection. If your company subscribes to Udemy Business, that course is already sitting in your
Episode 558: Why Smart Organizations Keep Doing Dumb Things (Premium Preview)
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Sara Gallagher returns to examine a frustrating reality
Episode 557: PMP Exam Adds AI. You Are Studying the Wrong Thing.
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Artificial intelligence can now appear in PMP exam scenarios, but that does not mean candidates need to study AI technology. In Episode 557, Cornelius Fichtner starts with the PMP Exam Content Outline and separates what PMI actually says from what many candidates may assume. AI appears in the in
Episode 556: Rethinking the PMO: Identity, Design & What’s Next
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Sara Gallagher, President of The Persimmon Group and author of the LinkedIn newsletter Big Dumb Questions, joins Cornelius Fichtner to answer the uncomfortable questions most PMO leaders avoid. The conversation follows four threads: PMO identity, design, accountability, and the future. It opens
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A brief personal update from your host. My wife recently had a serious fall that required hip surgery and rehabilitation, so my time is fully devoted to her recovery right now. One recorded interview is on its way to your feed shortly, but the schedule will stay quiet for the next few week
Episode 555: Master All 7 PMBOK 8 Performance Domains for the PMP Exam (With Sample Exam Questions)
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The seven performance domains from the PMBOK Guide 8th edition form the backbone of how project work actually happens, and they are woven into nearly every situational question on the PMP exam. The catch is that the exam never labels them. Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, takes you through all seven dom
Episode 554: PMBOK Guide 8th Edition, All Six Principles for the PMP Exam
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Preparing for the PMP exam means developing the ability to make sound decisions under pressure, not simply recalling definitions from a textbook. In this lesson, drawn directly from the PM PrepCast PMP exam prep course and PrepCast PMP Exam Simulator, Cornelius Fichtner walks through all six pr
Episode 553: Revenge of the Risk Register (Premium Preview)
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We welcome back Dawn Mahan and Jerry Manas for a project risk management conversation tha
Episode 552: PMP Exam Content Outline
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The PMP Exam Content Outline, often called the ECO, drives everything about the PMP exam, yet many students still focus almost entirely on the PMBOK Guide. In this episode, Cornelius Fichtner explains why the PMP exam is not a test of the PMBOK Guide and why the ECO serves as the real syllabus b
Episode 551: What Movies Teach Project Managers
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Project managers often joke that their projects feel like a movie. In this conversation, that idea becomes the central theme as Cornelius Fichtner welcomes Dawn Mahan and Jerry Manas to discuss their book Projectland Goes to the Movies. Together, they examine how famous films reflect real proje
Episode 550: How to Turn Chaos Into Project Clarity (Premium Preview)
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Projects rarely fall apart because people lack effort. More often, they struggle because
Episode 549: How to Bring Clarity to Chaotic Projects
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Danielle Naomi McCier joins the discussion to explain how project managers can create clarity in environments where priorities shift, feedback comes from multiple directions, and teams struggle to stay aligned. The conversation highlights how projects rarely begin in chaos but gradually lose cla
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