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Project Management is Boring

Jordon Keen

Project Management Is Boring focuses on the unglamorous work that actually makes projects succeed. We talk planning, requirements, meetings, stakeholder management, and execution—without pretending PMs are superheroes or that every problem can be solved with a new framework. Built for IT project managers, business analysts and professionals who value discipline, clarity and realism over buzzwords.

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53 episodes

  1. Why Do We Do This? - What Does Good Look Like? 25:29
  2. Why Do We Do This? - Who Needs to Know 26:34
  3. Why Do We Do This? - The Project Charter 27:01
  4. Why Do We Do This? - Season Introduction 5:39
  5. Target Canada: The Recovery That Came Too Late 39:36
  6. Target Canada: Change Management at Retail Speed 41:04
  7. Target Canada: Governance Theatre 46:56
  8. Target Canada: The Customer Promise Gap 37:59
  9. Target Canada: The Forecasting Trap 41:57
  10. Target Canada: Empty Shelves, Full Warehouses 39:01
  11. Target Canada: The Data Was the Critical Path 36:00
  12. Target Canada: SAP Was Not the Villain 37:26
  13. Target Canada: Big Bang Expansion 39:12
  14. Target Canada: The Deal That Started the Clock 37:10
  15. Target Canada: The Launch That Outran Reality 31:12
  16. PMIB Season 3 Trailer: Target Canada 2:23
  17. Knight Capital: The Anti-Knight Framework 18:50
  18. Knight Capital: Technical Debt is Leadership Debt 24:20
  19. Knight Capital: Nothing Broke, So It Must Be Fine 25:21
  20. Knight Capital: Governance Theater 22:08
  21. Knight Capital: Speed Pressure 23:08
  22. Knight Capital: It Probably Works 18:52
  23. Knight Capital: If Your Alarms Require Debate 22:11
  24. PMIB Season 2: The System is Live - Season 2 Continues 1:17
  25. Knight Capital: Risks Without Controls Are Just Predictions 22:30
  26. Knight Capital: War Rooms are a Symptom 20:45
  27. Knight Capital: The First Signal Never Looks Like Failure 23:00
  28. Knight Capital: Who Gets to Stop the System? 16:28
  29. Knight Capital: You Don't Invent the Exit During the Fire 17:39
  30. Knight Capital: Routine is a Dangerous Word 18:03
  31. Knight Capital: Dormant Doesn't Mean Dead 20:15
  32. Knight Capital: Seven of Eight 22:16
  33. Knight Capital: A Normal Morning 20:26
  34. Season 2 Trailer 1:28
  35. Military Transition: The Emotional Ambush 23:02
  36. Military Transition: Certs are Just Badges, But You Still Need Them 18:33
  37. Military Transition: Project or Charlie Foxtrot? 16:46
  38. Military Transition: Beating the Bot 13:35
  39. Military Transition: Command Doesn't Work Here 17:07
  40. Military Transition: You Were Already a Project Manager 13:06
  41. Healthcare.gov - When Process, Politics and Code Collide 25:40
  42. The Science of Saying No 21:20
  43. The Email That Changed Nothing 19:04
  44. Risk Logs and Real Life 21:02
  45. Urgency and the Illusion of Control 20:53
  46. The Necessary Adversary 17:53
  47. Project Management Tools: The Modern Alchemy 19:19
  48. Scope Creep and the Monsters We Make 22:41
  49. Project Charters are Useless (and Why That's Our Fault) 19:10
  50. Meetings, Mayhem and the Myth of Alignment 21:57