Danubio Becker Borba - A Great Legacy to Project Management

In this podcast, Ricardo pays homage to his friend and teacher Danúbio Becker Borba, who died recently. Prof. Danúbio was an example of a dedicated teacher and one of the volunteers founders of the chapter PMI São Paulo. He had special participation in designing the PMDome workshop and pioneered the use of the techniques of games for education in project management.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five minutes BM podcast today. I like just to share with you also waste international community that listen to my podcast in English about professor the newbie Borba the past or the way a couple of days ago. And for those who don't know him, he was one of the founders of the PMI some Paulo chapter and far one of the best professors and project management I have ever seen. He, his dedication to the project management in Brazil makes what we have Today in project management.

He, his dedication, ah, he was the first person to present to me. This was around 2002, 2001 So 10 years ago was the first one to introduce me to the concepts around mind mapping. And when I wrote my book and I showed him the man maps, he said to me, he got it's crazy. I never ever thought that you will be enjoying to much the mind maps. And he was, what is that considered the glue of the PMDome workshop?

So I have a very nice workshop using papers to do a, a geodesic dome that received at the PMI awards in 2005. And if we have this award Today and if we are together today, it's because the new Buick put fin knock you a great friend also, and myself together to do that. So, and he's amazing. And he willingness to create games and to create, to prove the project management training So every single day, who just share it to meet an email with new ideas and look what I did.

I built a bridge with wooden sticks, and now I'm thinking about using newspaper to do this. Our, that this was really, really great for me, was wonderful. The use of the videos and it on the core sets. And he introduced all of this for me. And he was such a great friend, such a great friend, so lovely every single year in the friend's, then he sent an email or talking about friendship every time he was willing to help me and say, look, look, the book kind of found looking at you.

You must read these. You must read that. So it's really, really very good person for dues too, who don't know him, must look through PMI Sam Paulo a web page. And also look through my webpage to see his picture's with me in 2005, receiving the PMI awards as the product of the year for the PMDome workshop. And just a couple of weeks ago, we were together. And then he was asking me about using that the game, a construction game to show project management.

And I was showing him, but

Speaker 1 (3m 1s): The PM coaster, the workshop, I created various more workshop,

Speaker 0 (3m 5s): A quick workshop, and that when the kids, the students, not the kids that play like kids, but they understand the process of planning and budgeting using a roller coaster project. And then he said, we need to do a project together. So for sure, he's not able to participate with me together on this,

Speaker 1 (3m 27s): But I'm pretty sure that he will contribute from that

Speaker 0 (3m 30s): Where he works for me to do a great Project. And this will be my recognition to the newbie. I want to send my regards to the family and my support to the family. And of course in this moment of loss, it's very hard to agree that the new BW will not be here. But again, the Legacy he provided to us into project management is an asset that we must keep. And if you don't know him, you need to look for understanding what he did for the Brazilian community in project management.

Because based on his example, he can inspire us to do great things. So my regards to the family, my regards to the PMI some Paulo chapter and the new, a new your assets and everything you did will change the way they will look project management training. So thank you very much for all you did. And for me, I was very honored to be your friend and to learn from you a lot of things that I'm using right now in my project management life.

Thank you very much and see you all of you next week with an order five minutes BM Podcast.

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