A conversation with Marisa Silva – the Lucky PM, passionate and intrigued by projects.  The interview has been conducted by Aneta Catalan Sikorska. I  cannot start with the other questions until I ask about “The Lucky PM”. Is there any story behind it? Because when you talk about the PM world, I  can see how much you enjoy it. But maybe “Lucky” doesn’t only mean that you love what you do, maybe you are lucky because you still improve the PM/PMO world. Thank you, first of all, for such kind words. I  do try to share my passion and leave my…

An interview with Gunther Verheyen by Paulina Szczepaniak You are a renowned international agile expert, with particular expertise in Scrum. Why do you think this framework became so popular? Probably because of the growing need of what I like to call “agility”, meaning flexibil­ity, responsiveness, and not just from an IT perspective. IT is where agile sort of emerged from, but companies have to survive and thrive in very turbulent markets, a lot of business changes, market competition, but also internal changes, stakeholders and so on. And the way that organizations are struc­tured and therefore how they organize their IT…

An interview with Tendayi Viki by Kornelia Trzęsowska Do you agree with Steve Jobs that it’s more fun to be a pirate than to join a navy? You refer to his words in the title of your newest book. I don’t think it’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. Pirates are often in danger of dying. Steve Jobs was talking about how startups are faster than already set up companies – they move quicker than any large company. But what we’re learning these days is that large companies often become innovative, maybe surprisingly. The cool…

Z Dagmarą Kołodziejczyk, psychologiem, trenerem i certyfikowanym coachem, rozmawia Malwina Szopa W pracy Project Managera miałam do czynienia z wieloma sytuacjami, również takimi jak wspomniałaś w trakcie swoje­go wystąpienia na XIV Międzynarodowym Kongresie PMI PC: krzyczący mężczyzna na zebraniu i płacząca w toalecie kobieta. Jak myślisz, dlaczego, widząc takie sytu­acje, nie identyfikujemy ich z cechą cha­rakteru tylko z płcią? To jest bardzo ważne pytanie, które w za­sadzie można by zadać w odniesieniu do wszystkich wątków związanych z kobietami i mężczyznami. Posługujemy się stereotypa­mi, bo to nam ułatwia życie. Upraszczamy i tłumaczymy niewygodne sytuacje, które się wydarzają, na naszą korzyść. Łatwiej…

A conversation with Sunil Prashara by Agnieszka Krogulec What made you decide to join PMI as its CEO? I have worked in many different functions over the years. I was really attracted to PMI, because I love its purpose. I liked the fact that it is not for profit – the type of organization I haven’t worked before, but I possessed a global experience I could bring to the table. PMI in fact is a global organization which is very attractive. The organization was also gearing myself up for a major transformation. I’d spent a lot of my career doing…