Project Management Fundamentals for Engineering Leaders

In this week’s episode of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I talk to Christian Knutson, CEng, P.E., PgMP, F. SAME, who has co-hosted this podcast in the past and now serves as the Europe Program Manager for Stanley Consultants.

In this episode, which is part of a series we are publishing focused around the four key drivers of engineering managers, we talk about the third key driver: the ability to manage projects. Chris talks about project management fundamentals and how project management skills can help you to become a great engineering manager.

📌 DIGITAL TABLE OF CONTENTS 📌
1:02 Chris' career overview
3:37 Project management vs program management
6:59 Program management overview
9:03 What brought Chris into project management?
12:24 Fundamentals of project management
21:09 The impact of project management skills on engineering leadership
26:46 Handling scope creep
31:56 The impact of project management skills on your engineering career

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[terydn]

In the UK we mostly follow the APM BoK. MSP and ChPP or the key qualifications.
Projects deliver business case defined outputs that manifest benefits with time and cost parameters. Programmes deliver a defined outcome that provides for the business case vision - usually the target state. Programmes deliver outcomes through the benefits realisation from multiple interdependent project outputs. A portfolio is a collection of non interdependent programmes and projects.
In my experience engineers make the best PM or PgM for capital works. I spend first 25 years in engineering and the next 15 delivering projects and then programmes.

[art]

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[GoodwinOgbuehi]

This was a great talk. Well-articulated and easy to follow. While I'm coming to this from a software development perspective, all of this applies conceptually for leading software engineers and interfacing with stakeholders. Thanks for sharing these ideas.

[ThamerAlameer]

very interesting conversation. I'm interested in project management and i feel like i learned a lot form this video. so, thank you.