Retrospective 2011

In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the events of 2011 from the point of view of project management. He said that 2011 was a year when there was a huge demand in Brazil for projects that are happening at the moment and at the same time a very large uncertainty in the world. It has invested heavily in projects around the world in a period of crisis and there is a violent demand for project management, but a great difficulty in the use of best practices in project management.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five minutes BM Podcast as I do every year, I usually in the, by the end of the year, I talk a little bit about the Retrospective of the year. So trying to discuss and trying to understand what happened in the ear, and also try to forecast and try to understand what's going non in the next ear. And this year I we'll be doing this too. Podcast one about 2011 and the other one about 2012.

But I want also to add You a podcast where I wanted to discuss, how do I use project management to plan my year? How do I apply the concepts involving portfolio and program management to think about what I need to do in the upcoming ears? So this is what I will be discussing in the next Podcast. And I'd like to start this podcast talking about 2011 in the word to summarize everything that happened in 2011 is the word strange.

And why strange? Because in one way, we saw a link of opportunities. We show a huge amount of opportunities. For example, I'm Brazilian in Brazil. We had great ear comparing with other countries, but in your hand, a huge uncertainty in a huge volatility. So nobody knows what's going on in the ward, in the eras zone, in Iraq, also in the United States.

So everything he could show strange because we see a lot of kinks happening in some parts of the planet, in an order parts of the planet, we see a mix of unemployment, lack of opportunities and the opportunities that we are looking right now. For example, let me give you the Brazilian example. We seek huge amount of opportunity for people working in the engineer field and constructions, a lot of projects going on in not only in Brazil, but also in India, in China, in all in developing countries, we see a lot of growth in this areas or oil, but in your hand, what I didn't see too much was a huge improvement in project planning.

And a lot of people telling me, Oh, I have a PMO in my organization. And then when we come to see what they call PMO, its something like a guy said that in front of a computer preparing of a very weak ScandAll in doing the risk management plan in a spreadsheet, put only the risks named It to a rain. It can rain tomorrow and tallying that this is project management. This is not project management. This is maybe a try to build something extremely basic, but that may be the future.

You can be tackled as project management because of this that I put the strange, I have friends that had not standing here for me the year was great, but I know people that the year was just okay. And for people that year was a big, big challenge. So the word that humorize, this was a strange volatility. He has Chanel So movement's in the investment. So people canceling huge investments, government putting money to recover investments and then increase it that way.

So it's a quite strange universe that you face it in 2011 or so, but this who one with this one in the project management field with this first people with differential people that no something that's relevant, that's unique for the professional and for the client. Second people with creativity think different to revisit the and think differently in what they do, do increase and to take a opportunity to have this crisis.

Remember all crisis times are also huge. Time's for opportunities in a bottom line, flexibility, people that went very well into that 1011, they thought in the very flexible way we go where the money EAs, we flow our professional. We use our skills, our project managers to make this happen. And this three topics, differential creativity and flexibility will be something like a foundation for the water we'll be talking in.

The next podcast is the perspectives of 2012. It's great to discuss like I'm discussing In this podcast about the past, but the past is only history that helped us to understand them, learning, to apply for the future. So next week we'll be discussing a little bit about the future, trying to understand what we'll be, the main challenges and the main opportunity for 2012. And then I will talk a little bit about how I use project management to plan my year.

Maybe you can use the same tools and understand better. What do you need to do to make a great year next year? Finally, I'd like to wish everybody Merry Christmas. It's a time for peace and for a giant family and have fun with your family. So I wish all of you and next week I we'll be celebrating up coming out of the new year. Goodbye and see you next week with a, not a five minutes BM Podcast.

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