5 Minutes Podcast with Ricardo Vargas

5 Minutes Podcast with Ricardo Vargas

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2025 Retrospective: A Year of Pressure, Learning, and Decisions in Projects

In this episode, Ricardo looks back at the year in projects with a mature and deeply reflective perspective, focusing on the lessons learned. He describes an intense year, marked by strong pressure for results, shorter deadlines, and increasingly tight budgets, where good plannin ...  Show more

Milestones, Baselines, and the Power of December 31 in Projects

In this episode, Ricardo highlights the importance of milestones, baselines, and control points in project management, using December 31st as a powerful example of a milestone, both personally and organizationally. Just as individuals reflect on decisions and plan the future at t ...  Show more

What does the PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition say about Artificial Intelligence?

In this episode, Ricardo wraps up the discussion on the PMBOK Guide 8th Edition by highlighting the role of artificial intelligence in project management. PMI included AI in Appendix X3, presenting three adoption strategies: automation (making tasks faster), assistance (AI as a p ...  Show more

Don’t Memorize the PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition - Understand It

In this episode, Ricardo explains that in the PMBOK® 8th Edition, you do not need to memorize all 40 processes. Many of them are very similar, especially in the planning phase, which alone contains 19 processes. He shows that processes like Plan Scope Management, Plan Schedule Ma ...  Show more

What Happened with the Communication Domain in the PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition?

In this episode, Ricardo discusses a key change in the PMBOK® Guide 8th edition: the relationship between stakeholders and communication. In previous editions, communication was a separate knowledge area, but now it is considered part of stakeholder management. This shi ...

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