How to Facilitate Productive Project Meetings – with Rich Maltzman

Rich Maltzman is co-author of How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings. So, I wanted to speak with him about creating productive project meetings.

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Rich Maltzman

Rich Maltzman has been practicing PM for 32 years and is currently Master Lecturer at Boston University, an author, and a consultant, who provides students and clients with a deep, rich learning experience and/or improved results.

Before this, Rich enjoyed a 40-year career in telecom, mainly in engineering and project management. He is the co-founder of EarthPM, LLC, a company devoted to integrating sustainability thinking into project management. And he served on the Editorial Board for the 7th Edition PMBOK® Guide.

Books by Rich Maltzman

Rich has written or co-authored a number of books, including:

• Green Project Management (with Dave Shirley, 2011) – Cleland Award winner
• Project Workflow Management: A Business Process Approach (with Daniel Epstein, 2014
• Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel (with Dave Shirley, 2015)
• Bridging the PM Competency Gap (with Loredana Abramo, 2017)

And, most recently, with Jim Stewart, Rich wrote:

• How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings

That’s why I wanted to speak with him about creating productive project meetings.

How to Facilitate Productive Project Meetings

In this video, we discuss:

1. Many people take project meetings for granted, and others would think they are uninteresting. Why are they important?
2. What kinds of things get in the way of productive meetings?
3. What in particular about PROJECT meetings, if anything, is different?
4. How can we make our project meetings productive?
5. Is there any connection between the 7th Edition PMBOK® Guide and Rich’s book – or meetings in general?

Getting in Touch with Rich Maltzman

• Read Rich Maltzman’s People-Planets-Profits-Projects Blog
• Connect with Rich Maltzman on LinkedIn

Recommended Videos

Carefully curated video recommendations for you:

• Good Meetings don’t Happen by Chance | Video
• How to Hold a Daily Stand-up Meeting | Video
• Meeting Actions: How to get People to do Them | Video
• How to Run a Great Project Team Meeting | Video
• The Rule of Silence: The Free Source of Power in a Meeting | Video
• Lessons Learned Meeting: How to make it Excellent | Video
• 5 Tips for Better Meetings | Video
• Project Planning Process – How to Build Effective Project Plans | Video
• Project Planning: Plan Your Project – PM Fundamentals

What Kit does a Project Manager Need?

I asked Project Managers in a couple of forums what material things you need to have, to do your job as a Project Manager. They responded magnificently. I compiled their answers into a Kit list. I added my own. 

Check out the Kit a Project Manager needs

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