The project manager hit a log, and it pooped candy
All right. You may be confused right now if you are not Catalan. Damn, you may be confused even if you are Catalan. Keep calm and poop on, I mean, carry on. ...
Project-Management
Journalists are awesome project managers, and I am going to tell you why
What if I told you that having a background in journalism may make you a better project manager? Keep reading for some basic journalism concepts that will tu...
The Sound of Project Management
What if I told you that Fraulein Maria is an amazing project manager, Mother Abbess is an outstanding leader, and the Baroness Schraeder is an exemplary huma...
The Scary Side of Project Management
In honor of Halloween week, I’ve been scaring the living daylights out of myself with a monstrous marathon of horror movies! 🎃👻🍿Well, no. I lied. Horror movi...
Nobody puts a project manager in the corner
I am a GenX’er on the younger side. This means that when Dirty Dancing came out in 1987, I was a tad too young to be allowed to go to the movies with frien...
Songs for the intrepid Project Manager - I
We can’t imagine a world without music, can we? Music is almost like therapy. If I need to focus, there’s a song to hide from distraction. If I am happy, t...
Life in New York is like Project Management
Life in New York is as stimulating and often intoxicating (in a good way) as it is frustrating and disappointing. And you know what? I feel the same about Pr...
Life lessons from The Devil Wears Prada
There are three things I will say about The Devil Wears Prada: It is super fun to watch. Way better than the book. Like, WAY WAY better. Emily Blunt &a...
Arrival and the Power of Communication
Every single guide, podcast, blog, or training about project management will highlight the importance of communication when performing this job of ours that ...
Can you be a good project manager if you are an introvert?
Yes! You can be an excellent project manager while being an introvert, and in my very humble opinion, the fact that we are even asking this question comes fr...
A project manager, a pirate, a convict, and a reality show
A story of how control makes a project manager happier than an introvert on a rainy weekend. You don’t have to be a project manager for control to make you ...
Don’t be an asshole at the office
Do you remember that time in Succession when Hugo was caught red-handed mocking Logan’s girlfriend in a conference room? While we already saw that the beh...
What makes for a great Project Manager?
Two events took me here today. First, I mentioned in a team meeting that Project Management is not rocket science. While I still think it is not, my coworker...
Tiki-taka and Project Management
And when I say “Tiki-Taka,” I mean football, and when I say “football” I mean the sport that some of you know as “soccer.” I am a Spaniard, for god’s sake. I...
Star Trek Strange New Worlds & Project Management
Yes, Project Management can take us to Strange New Worlds and vice versa, ha ha. Well, anyway, “Strange New Worlds” is a beautiful TV show, and we can learn ...
The STAR in Star Wars
When I say STAR, I mean the Situation-Task-Action-Result method. When I say Star Wars, I mean Star Wars. If you have been looking for jobs lately, I am pret...
The “Good Omens” in Root Cause Analysis
And the Root Cause Analysis in “Good Omens.” And angels. And demons. Comparing something as fun, magical, sweet, clever, comforting, and heartbreaking as Go...
Hi, Barbie!
Of course, it had to be Barbie this week. I can’t imagine anything more Pop-Culture-y relevant these days. Well, maybe the aliens (yay, space!) I’ll check on...
Pride and Prejudice and Job-Hunting
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a successful company in possession of a sound budget must be in want of a new hire. Ok, yes - this post go...
This meeting could have been an email
Today I will piggyback on last week’s Ron Swanson extravaganza problem with meetings. If you missed it, you need to know that I used, as a procrastination ...
Procrastinators, the leaders of tomorrow (no, not really)
Procrastination is the action (or inaction, lol) of delaying or postponing something, and we have many examples in pop culture (you start thinking about th...
‘The Bear,’ lessons on leadership and management - Part 2
The second season of The Bear starts with the crew dismantling the shithole old joint (aka The Beef) and partaking in an impromptu budget/WBS meeting to conc...
‘The Bear,’ lessons on leadership and management - Part 1
The first season of The Bear starts with Carmen, a young but promising haute cuisine chef, returning to Chicago to take over the family’s shithole sandwich s...
Enemies to lovers. Turn difficult stakeholders into powerful partners
The enemies-to-lovers trope is as popular as it is fun, and it consists of (yeah, no secret there) two characters that start off being enemies (or not seei...
Manage a Crisis like a Pro
Netflix recently released the miniseries The Days, which goes through the events during -and immediately after- the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ca...
“Succession” - Don’t try this at home
Everyone is talking this week about Succession, and you know, FOMO. So here I am, reminding everyone that the things the incredible f**k brother bandwagon ...
Look up! Your technical debt is coming to kill you!
The movie: Don’t Look Up Spoilers ahead! Don’t Look Up is a satirical comedy that follows Dr. Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and Dr. Randall Mindy (Leo...
Achieving the impossible one step at a time - "The Martian" edition
Have you ever been involved in a project so massive and complex that you sincerely doubted it was achievable at all? Yeah, I am familiar with the feeling, bu...
Ted Lasso and the Tuckman model for teams
Yes! I am going to talk about teamwork in the TV show Ted Lasso, but let’s start with some housekeeping: You don’t need to have seen Ted Lasso to underst...
I don't think Yoda is a stellar leader and mentor
Disclaimer: no one, ever, will be able to accuse me of not being a true Star Wars lover, and I have proof. I’ll add: The Empire Strikes Back is one of my fav...
Three learnings from “The Princess Bride”
First of all, if you have not watched The Princess Bride, stop reading this right away and redress the situation. I mean it. Do it. Now! Ok, if you are stil...
What Human Towers or "Castells" teach us about Project Management
There’s this beautiful Catalan tradition named “Human Towers” or Castells. Yup! Your insight serves you well! It consists of the assembling and disassembling...