The Sunday Lunch Project

In this episode I have a chat with Ben Aston, The Digital Project Manager. Ben brings over 15 years of experience in both strategic thinking and tactical implementation from a career at top digital agencies including FCV, Dare, Wunderman, DLKW Lowe and DDB.  He's been fortunate enough to work across verticals including transit, utilities, FMCG, consumer electronics, eCommerce, automotive, financial services, public sector, and retail brands.  Ben's a Certified Scrum Master, PRINCE2 Practitioner and founder of the digital project management blog, The Digital Project Manager.  Founded in 2011, The Digital Project Manager has become one of the largest and most credible platforms for digital project management information and thought leadership. With feature articles, how-to guides, tools, reviews, jobs and funnies, The Digital Project Manager draws on the rapidly expanding, global audience of digital project managers. To listen to the podcast click below For m

In this month's podcast interview, I chat with Carl Pritchard I hope you enjoy the interview. Thanks Nige

Having wrapped up podcast number three for the year it occurs to me that I did not realise how much fun it was going to be.  With only three down there has been such a great variety of experiences and styles of these three individuals. I also noted though that he was a big chunk of commonality between them all, each arriving in the project management game through unplanned routes. I've also now got two more interviewees almost certainly lined up, just putting dates in the diaries but will be looking for more so  If you would like to lift the lid on your project management story or know of someone whose story would be interesting, then get in touch at nige@nigelcreaser.com . The next interview will be out at the end of the month and as a teaser, he is sometimes known as "The Risk Guy".  Make sure you subscribe at the usual places you get your podcasts or pop along to anchor.fm/sundaylunchpm. Until next time remember project management is funny. Thanks Ni

Earlier this week I had just been listening to a podcast called Big Picture Science , which has a guy called Douglas Rushkoff, (author of  Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus see below for a link) who was interviewed about the way that Facebook and some other people to use technology and data.  One of the things he talked about was how they predict what we are going to do, this allows them to advertise appropriately.  The accuracy of this about 80% correct, which is pretty impressive but still leaves a lot of ambiguity. So what about that 20%?  What do they do about that?  Work with the algorithm to improve its predictive accuracy? You would think wouldn't you, but supposedly, they don't what they do is change what they present to you in your feed or sponsored adds to to try to influence us to make sure that their prediction is accurate. Therefore placing all their efforts to populate these feeds in order to lead us to behaving in the way that has been predicted. So if th

In this months podcast interview, I chat with Ruth Pearce I hope you enjoy the interview. Thanks Nige This transcript was generated by https://otter.ai Nigel Creaser So today I've got Ruth Pearce. I'm going to give you a little bio about Ruth. For over 20 years. She's taken on large scale projects in financial services software houses, state government, education, and nonprofit organisations. And in 2011, Ruth and the team team with the winners of the PMI distinguished project award, she had found a niche at that time. She also launched a book called Project motivator recently called unlock the secrets of strengths based project management. And one of the comments from Ken Blanchard on the book was Ruth knows project management from the inside out, she knows the best project managers use their influence to engage their teams. And with that engagement comes motivation and commitment to the projects and to each other. Read, read be a project moti