Tribute to Rita Mulcahy

In this podcast, Ricardo pays a tribute to Rita Mulcahy, who passed away on May 15th. He says he had the opportunity to meet her back in 1998 in California, when he attended to a presentation she was giving. At that very moment he realized that Rita was a different person. Ricardo mentions that he participates in many project management discussion groups from several countries, and by the messages posted on these groups, it is easy to see that people from everywhere have her book as the reference when it comes to preparing for the PMP certification.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five Minutes BM podcasts today. I was supposed to talk about the, my course here at MIT in Boston about corporate strategy, but I decided to change the topic when I notice, and that I was informed that Rita Mulcahy has passed away. And it's really, really important to do a tribute to her in this podcast. And to talk a little bit about how important was her work for the project management society and also for the candidate's for the project management professional certification.

I first met hitter In 99 or eight in London beach. California at the BMI symposium win. And while Congress now its called the global Congress. At that time, it was the end well symposium. And I was starting my relationship with BMI and I wrote, I saw a different title, creative project management training in there, the ideas. And at the end it was looking for something different to teach product management.

And when I enter it at the auditorium and I start watching that presentation and I saw here it's something different. The energy that Rita shown to everybody was a mess, amazing training ideas, a plane with the owl. There's a plane with the public and explaining, giving them tips, tricks, explaining how the people can understand easily project management.

After that, I started to pay attention on her work. Mostly most of the work related to prepare people for the project management professional, I'm a member off about 120 or something groups, discussion groups, most of them important is it in English and the AA. Every single time that I hear one question, how do we prepare for the certification? The top of mine far it's heavy read the book of Rita Mulcahy it's such a good influence and the good power every time person that train it or prepare themselves for the credential.

They had at least some kind of contact with Rita's work. She wrote a wonderfully and very good, very Deedat call books. And she became a trademark, a trademark in an industry that is growing extremely fast. That grew extremely fast. I was reading the message at their website talking about 50 locations. So this is a quite successful. And for sure, the first thing that I taught when I heard a, about a herd death, I think, Oh, why such a good people can leave us?

And, but this is above and beyond my own understanding. And I'd like to finish this. Podcast sending my condolences to the husband and the family and also RMC people and all of the people that work at and now So bonds and the people from project lab in Brazil for the work together. And I like to finish remember, and the last time I met her, it was in last November in my hometown, in Belo Horizonte in Brazil.

And I opened the Congress and just after me Rita it was the speaker and talking about how to make project management work. And again, she did something extremely different from all the conventional way of presenting. She used it, she had dollar bills and whip and she did something completely different. Everybody at the end stand up and clap it.

And the, the claps where not only for the presentation, but for her success, her help to the project management society. So I'd like to finish with that. And thank you for listening to that and see you all of you next week with another five minutes, be them, but guest, see you.

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