SSS #012: Responsibilities and recommendations with Jill Plunga
Channel: Pragmatic PMO
Date: 04/06/2019

In this interview, Jill Plunga (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-plunga-07663766/) warns against the perils of forgetting what the role of the project manager truly is, and reminds how important it is to make full use of subject matter experts.

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. 

00:00 – Ken’s Intro
01:10 – Jill's background and route into project management
03:03 – Jill's scary scar (trying to become the expert)
06:00 – What Jill learned (use your subject matter experts)
08:30 – Ken’s wrap-up

This interview is part of Pragmatic PMO’s “Scary Scars Shared” series, in which Ken BurrelI 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 http://bit.ly/ScaryScars 

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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