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Episode 18 - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - Common Project Management Errors
Episode 17 - Thursday, February 9, 2012 - On the Characteristics of a Professsion
Episode 16 - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - On Project Contracts
Episode 15 - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - On Your Professionalism Challenges
Episode 14 - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - On Professional Core Values
Episode 13 - Thursday, January 12, 2011 - Remote vs. Co-located Staff
Episode 12 - Thursday, January 5, 2011 - On Deadlines
Episode 11 - Thursday, December 15, 2011 - Client & Project Pre-bid Evaluation
Episode 10 - Thursday, December 8, 2011 - On Compromise
Episode 9 - Thursday, December 1, 2011 - Professional Project Process
Episode 8 - Thursday, November 17, 2011 - Professional Design Collaboration
Episode 7 - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - Design Presentations
Episode 6 - Thursday, November 3, 2011 - Design Education and Pro Preparation
Episode 5 - Thursday, October 27, 2011 - Contests and Spec Work
Episode 4 - Thursday, October 20, 2011 - Project Discovery
Episode 3 - Friday, October 14, 2011 - Standards & Values
Episode 2 - Thursday, October 6, 2011 - Affecting Change - top-down & bottom-up
Episode 1 - Thursday, September 29, 2011 - On Being Allowed to Design
If you're the client and you're spending good money on a competent professional, let them do the job you hired them to do. When you start requesting specific changes you're shooting yourself in the foot and destroying the professional relationship that is crucial to your project's success.