Sitting in the corner looking pretty
A short informal podcast on the management of projects, project management and how you and your company can manage projects better, leadership and how business, business management and projects can integrate to get better value for your business from your projects …… while walking the dog.
It’s here to help, hopefully entertain but not to tell you how to do your job, just give you the ideas, thoughts, tips.
For more details or help with your projects and management of project get in touch, see www.cowshedprojects.com
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 74
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
Episode 14 - understand, why is this podcast!
To understand is the foundation to getting better projects, decisions and value. This episode explains why this podcast, what it is for and how it can help. So you can understand!
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Episode 13 - Don’t do it if you don’t need … reprise
Brief follow up to episode 13 .. because I think this gives another good insight into how not doing something may help and because I can’t edit files together yet …. Enjoy.
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Episode 13 - Don’t do it if you don’t need to (does it make it better?)
Today I talk about one of the principles I use in managing projects … don’t do it if you don’t need to. Which has a sub heading of …. does it make it better. It’s an idea which may he…
Episode 12 - Manage with exception to get exceptional results
Do you get frustrated by either decisions being made that shouldn’t by others or having to make them all yourself.
Today a brief explanation of a technique that could get you value throu…
Episode 11 - Fear and why you should be scared of it if you want to do better projects
This weeks episode is about fear and how it holds projects and businesses back from achieving great things. Especially in a top down run company. I talk about how rubbish it made me a…
Episode 10 - you don’t need project managers
This time bats!!! And a brief explanation of why you don’t need project managers but you do need to understand project management. Things get a bit weird with covering bases.
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Episode 9 - value
What is value? A bit more explained and my working introduction to it.
AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS
VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PR…
Episode 8 - Money really does grow on trees
Today I’ll explain the importance of getting the right information to make profit and good projects. There is an incident with a tree, I talk a lot about trees and spreadsheets and app…
Episode 7 - What do you need from and to be a project manager
Today I ramble a bit about what you need to be a project manager and what you need to look for from a project manager. There are trees, beware!
AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS
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Episode 6 - The project is for the business
Today one of us swims, one of us explains one of the principles of getting value and better profits from your projects and for the business of 'the project is for the business'.
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Episode 5 - The profit bucket
In this episode sunny bounces, I explain a reason projects don't make the profits that they should with a concept centred around a bucket of gin.
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Episode 4 - enable and trust the right people
It’s dark and sunny can’t be seen then it rains. I give an Introduction to one of the principles to value focused managing. Trust and enable the right people and wondering why project …
Episode 3 - Find value, get value, give value
I explain a bit more about value and how you can find it, get it and give it in your projects and business. Sunny chases a hare, I give a recent simple example of getting value from a …
Episode 2 - Empowerment and how it can add value to your projects and business
Sunny splashes ........ I talk about empowerment and how it adds value to your projects and business. I introduce an example of the difference in a couple of businesses I've worked wit…