SSS #002: Freedom and Flexibility with Adam A-S
Channel: Pragmatic PMO
Date: 2019-06-03

In this interview, Adam Al-Shemmeri (linkedin.com/in/adam-al-shemmeri-28b13147/)
talks about how incremental delivery can increase flexibility - even in construction! He also talks about running projects when the sponsor's freedom to make decisions is limited - and how he worked around it.

00:00 - Intro
01:08 - Adam introduces himself and explains how he got into project management
02:04 - Adam's scary scar - the two main stakeholders wanted different things!
04:33 - How Adam recovered the situation
05:32 - What Adam learned from this
06:20 - Adam's success story
08:50 - Adam's recommendations
09:32 - Ken's wrap-up

This interview is also available (for a limited time) as an audio-only podcast at http://bit.ly/PragmaticPMOCast - or wherever you get your podcasts from. 

This video is part of a series, in which Ken BurrelI of Pragmatic PMO Ltd asks Real Project Managers to share in around ten minutes the lessons they have learned from managing projects, so that the whole project management community can learn from their experiences. 

You can find the entire series at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4n2Nues8Os&list=PL1ZmB1dbMaa1uauuDxHoxxMDyVV_oQIPs 

Sharing short, sharp, project lessons interviews like this is just one of the pragmatic pointers recommended in Ken's book “Learning lessons from Projects: How it works, why it goes wrong, and how it you can do it better”, available from http://bit.ly/KensLLBook 

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