Strefa Wywiadu
Agile
Strategy & Business
Technical PM

Ventures in Pursuit of Startup Happiness – interview with Tore Rasmussen

Ewa Serwa

15-05-2024

Strefa PMI nr 13, czerwiec 2016

Lean Startup uses scientific method on new ideas. So, instead of writing a really long business plan that is filled with assumptions you start by addressing that all you have are these ideas and assumptions but you don’t know anything. Let’s try to formulate our assumptions into falsifiable hypothesis and let’s identify the most critical assumption and test it with real customers. So, you don’t start building. You take the minimum viable product and you try to test different aspects of your business model on real customers and you get real feedback when you’re early in the ideas. You just test with problem interviews, paper or a prototype and get feedback and you can learn from that. In comparison to agile software development, Lean Startup method suggests to deploy the product to production on the first day. You build something straightaway just to test it and tasks don’t come from uses stories but they come from experiment.

Strefa Wywiadu
Strategy & Business
Technical PM

PMOs Should Speak the Language of Business – interview with J. Kent Crawford

Szymon Pawłowski

08-04-2024

Strefa PMI nr 6, wrzesień 2014

Where companies are doing PPM without the PMO, I wonder: are they managing the portfolio strategy? I would contend they are not; I would contend that’s part of the execution of the strategy. The strategy, the strategic objectives, the goals, for what comes in the future year, should be generating the drivers, the determinants for what then you use to structure the portfolio. Then the project management office or demand office, or whatever we call this, uses these drivers to build the business cases. Some organizations have great alignment for organizations between strategy and execution but where that is lacking, we’ve got to fill the gap. The steps that come after the identification of the strategy and the initiatives that will fulfill it, those steps are not really performed in a strategy office. The PMO needs to cover that.

Strefa Wywiadu
Leadership
Personal Development
Technical PM

How to Elevate Collaboration Between PMO and Project Managers? – interview with Bruno Morgante 

Kamila Czerniak

23-03-2024

Strefa PMI nr 44, marzec 2024

PMOs exist for a reason and the reason is not always the same. It might be very different between companies and between industries but I would go at the organizational level because even in the same industry you might find two companies that from the outside are doing the same but they do it in a very different way. So it’s not industry-driven, it’s organizational-driven in my experience. 

Strefa Wywiadu
Strategy & Business
Technical PM

Project Management in Clinical Trials – a Healthy and Sustainable Future – interview with Agata Bloswick

Kornelia Trzęsowska

14-12-2023

Strefa PMI nr 43, listopad 2023

Clinical project management uniqueness lies in its specific application within the drug development industry.  Our focus is on testing new medicines on patients, involving human experimentation. As a result, we must adhere to a multitude of ethical and regulatory principles alongside the standard project management principles.

Strefa Wywiadu
Strategy & Business
Technical PM

Thriving in Chaos: Unlocking the Secrets of Strategic Luck in a Disruptive World – interview with Jonathan Brill

Ryszard Kołodziej

15-11-2023

Strefa PMI nr 43, listopad 2023

We’re clearly moving into a world that is more disruptive and where there’s more randomness in our businesses and our lives. And that means that we need to think differently about how we interact. With the world moving forward, instead of focusing first on optimization and efficiency, we need to focus first on resilience and flexibility because when you do that, you create dramatically better outcomes over time. There are three basic things that you can do to increase your resilience and flexibility. The first and most important thing is to become aware of the range of things that are possible. If you believe that the range of things that are possible are only those that you’ve experienced in your lifetime, then we’re in for a big Surprise!

Strefa Wywiadu
Agile
Leadership
Technical PM

Name an Industry and Agile Is There – interview with Mohamed Khalifa Hassan

Łukasz Paluszkiewicz

13-11-2023

Strefa PMI nr 23, listopad 2018

For me, Agile is a mindset. This is what the PMI insists to say in their new standard. Agile as a mindset more than tools and techniques. For sure there are different methodologies coming from the same mindset. If you look at Lean for example, Lean is considered as Agile methodology. However Lean was created long time ago. It’s not from 2001 when the Manifesto was made and the Agile principles were created. Agile principles were in use before the software development. That’s why Agile is definitely more mindset than a technique. This is what I want to say first.

Strefa Wywiadu
Agile
Technical PM

Are You Implementing Scrum in Your Company? Don’t Miss It!

Szymon Pawłowski

13-10-2023

Strefa PMI nr 11, listopad 2015

Scrum is a framework that allows an organization to improve their project development and delivery significantly. In order to achieve that it requires most organizations to change their approach towards software development. A cultural change is needed in the way requirements are gathered, no longer all upfront, but when they are perceived to add value to the actual development effort that will deliver actual value to the end user. Many organizations are either not aware nor willing to change that approach and try to implement Agile Scrum on top of an existing Waterfall approach. If not done carefully many organizations fall back to what they know best (e.g. waterfall) and assume that Agile is not for them.

Strefa Wywiadu
Strategy & Business
Technical PM

Leading Projects with Data – How to Effectively Transition to Data-Informed Project Management – interview with Marcus Glowasz

Aneta Wereszczak

02-10-2023

Strefa PMI nr 42, wrzesień 2023

Despite all the hype about data, analytics, and primarily AI, it must be clear that people remain the key factor in projects. AI has zero value without data, and data has zero value if people are not bought into data as a concept. In the end, data is produced through people’s activities. That could be project plans, RAID logs, stakeholder maps, etc., but also presentations, meetings, reports, lessons learned, and so forth. Everything is data that we as people produce and need to feed into a data ecosystem for us to make continuous use of growing information and knowledge. And with such a workable data ecosystem, meaningful analytics can be applied that produce valuable insights for our project decisions.

Strefa Wywiadu
Leadership
Technical PM

Leading Through Inspiration – interview with Uruel Wernars

Kornelia Trzęsowska

14-06-2023

Strefa PMI nr 39, Listopad 2022

Inspiring others has recently been recognized as one of the most important interpersonal skills of project managers and, broadly, leaders. Why inspiring is so crucial in contemporary project management? In my view it is important to realize that to be successful in these challenging times it is not only about the tools and technical knowledge but more importantly the personality and soft skills or capabilities of our people. Focusing on developing that area will help you to really engage your teams, building-up strong relationship with your stakeholders, overcome challenges and be great. Move from project managers towards great project leaders.

Strefa Wywiadu
Strategy & Business
Technical PM

What the heck is wrong with SAP? Dlaczego tak trudno wdrażać SAP-a? – wywiad z Waldemarem Falińskim

Paweł Dudek

21-03-2023

Strefa PMI nr 40, marzec 2023

Poprosiłem o rozmowę, ponieważ zajmuję się zarządzaniem zmianami w organizacjach i w ostatnim czasie kilkukrotnie byłem proszony o pomoc i konsultacje przy wdrożeniach systemu SAP. Lista trudności, o których słyszałem przerażała. A że o trudnych tematach najlepiej mówić prostym językiem, więc zacznijmy od podstaw – czym jest SAP? Zacznę może od tego, że SAP nie jest trudno wdrażać, są dobre metody i narzędzia i wystarczy tylko robić to tak, jak należy. Kłopot w tym, że, jak się okazuje, najtrudniej jest to robić właśnie tak, zgodnie ze standardami. Ale nie uprzedzajmy, po kolei… Poza tym nie przesadzajmy z tymi trudnościami, jest wiele znakomitych projektów, ale one są „ciche”. Zwracam uwagę, że specyfika domeny, o której mówimy jest bardzo emocjonalna i nawet osoby na wysokich stanowiskach są skłonne do opowiadania i wiary w bajki.

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