SSS #009: Context and Collaboration with Eileen Roden
Channel: Pragmatic PMO
Date: 2019-06-04

In this interview, Eileen Roden (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ejroden/) warns project managers against planning in isolation and trying to provide all the technical answers; instead planning should be a collaborative process, and use the knowledge of the team. She also talks about the value of understanding where your project fits into the business strategy so that you can optimise what you are delivering to fit the business' need.

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
01:12 – How Eileen got into project management
02:50 – Eileen's Scary scar (problems with planning)
06:30 – What Eileen learned
08:30 – Eileen's suggestions for success
10:55 – 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 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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