Summary: Play Now: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam: PMP Exam prep : Eleonore Pieper and Cornelius Fichtner Successful projects result in change. However, this transformation usually happens when the original project team is already disbanding, leaving the process largely unmanaged and stakeholders ill-equipped to use the deliverables as they were intended, diminishing the expected project impact and benefits. In this interview, we explore five strategies that project managers can easily incorporate into their project plans to put in place preventative and mitigation strategies that will lead to improved adoption of project results. This interview with Eleonore Pieper (LinkedIn Profile) was recorded at the diverse Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2018 in Los Angeles, California. We look at a scalable model of five strategies for change and discuss how to modify plans with specific tasks in the areas of communication, training, organizational design, sponsorship and HR management to ensure successful post-project transformation. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Eleonore Pieper: In this episode of The Project Management Podcast™, we explore strategies that you can easily incorporate into your project plans in order to achieve improved adoption of project results. Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to The Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com. I am Cornelius Fichtner. Podcast Interview Cornelius Fichtner: We are coming to you live from the diverse 2018 PMI Global Conference in Los Angeles. And with me right now is Eleonore Pieper. Good afternoon! Eleonore Pieper: Good afternoon, Cornelius. Thanks for having me. Cornelius Fichtner: Absolutely! You already did your presentation earlier this morning right after the opening keynote presentation. How was it? Eleonore Pieper: I did, I did. I was pretty nervous. I really thought John, who did the keynote, was a hard act to follow that the set up was really great. I had a large audience, about 130 people in the room and everybody stayed pretty much until the bitter end. Lots of questions. Lots of interactions. So I kind of came out pretty stoked. Cornelius Fichtner: And you also had a technical issue? Eleonore Pieper: I did. For some reason, right in the middle of it, my slide deck started advancing for no apparent reason. So whatever gremlins were in the computer did their thing. Cornelius Fichtner: It is auto-advanced. Eleonore Pieper: Auto-advanced, it’s right. I think it must have been a setting like I don’t know kiosk setting or something in the presentation so I had to kind of flip back to keep on the slide I was still talking about and that was interesting. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, and just by sheer coincidence, I sat at a lunch table with somebody who was at your presentation and about this technical issue they said, but she covered it flawlessly. So it’s all good. It’s all good. Eleonore Pieper: Big sigh of relief. I’m very happy to hear that, thank you. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah. So I’d like to go back to one word that we heard in my opening. I said: ‘We are coming to you live from the diverse 2018 PMI Global conference.’ You chose that adjective, diverse. Why did you choose that? Eleonore Pieper: Well I am from Dallas. I’ve been there for the last 20 years working as a project manager. In Dallas, I would say project management is very much a middle-aged white profession. And being out here seeing people from Africa, from India, from China, everywhere, women, men, young people, old people coming together talking about project management, that kind of global feeling, I’m normally missing in my business. And so to me, that’s really energizing and makes me very happy. Cornelius Fichtner: Your presentation is called “Life After Implementation”. Why did you choose that particular topic? Eleonore Pieper: It’s something that I
