What The PM Podcast Is All About

I'm Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, CSM. I've worked as a project manager since 1990, in my native Switzerland, in Germany and in the USA. I've led projects for a management consulting firm, a national retailer, an internet startup, and one of the oldest financial services providers in the country.

I earned my PMP in 2004 and have been involved with PMI for over 20 years. I served as President of the PMI Orange County Chapter in 2007, was named a Fellow of the chapter in 2010, and contributed to the PMBOK Guide, Seventh Edition. Along the way I also wrote several books on the PMP exam.

These days I live in Tucson, Arizona, with my wife, four computers and two cats. The computers are better behaved.

The cat pictured above is Vincent. He was born feral in 2023, came to us through Southern Arizona Cat Rescue, and has since promoted himself to Head of Keyboard Testing. His duties include lying on the keyboard, purring into the microphone, and removing unnecessary objects from my desk, one at a time.

When I'm not recording, I'm probably playing a game. I've played every Civilization since the first one, and these days you're as likely to find me building cities in Anno 1800 or Manor Lords as exploring No Man's Sky. I also juggle: three balls comfortably, four on a good day, and five for about three seconds. That last one is a fairly accurate model of most project schedules.