SSS #003: Checklists and charity with Martin DOWSETT
Channel: Pragmatic PMO
Date: 2019-06-03

In this interview, Martin Dowsett (https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-dowsett-a0143225/) tells us how he uses checklists to make sure small but important things don't get forgotten. He also tells us how he brought a project that was over budget back on track, and how he created and used a set of guiding principles to keep it there.

00:00 - Introduction
01:15 - Martin introduces himself and describes how he got into project management
02:26 - Martin's scary scar (the project budget had been underestimated)
03:30 - How Martin recovered the situation
03:59 - What Martin learned from his scary scar (give the client price bands)
06:15 - Martin's success story recommendations (aide memoire / checklist)
07:40 - 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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