A Project Management & Tech Podcast

Barely
Managing
with Marvin

Twenty years of project management distilled into one podcast. No corporate nonsense. No fake optimism. Just the stuff everyone in the meeting is thinking but won't say out loud.

20
Years of PM Pain
~25
Min per Episode
0
Corporate Buzzwords
Marvin — Host of Barely Managing with Marvin

For Everyone Barely Coping

Barely Managing with Marvin is the podcast for PMs and tech workers who've sat through the same status meeting for the fifth time this week and felt something die inside.

Marvin didn't plan to end up in project management. After 20 years of navigating roadmap chaos, stakeholder theatre, and the ever-shifting definition of "done," he decided to talk about it.

Every episode runs about 25 minutes. It covers one real topic — myths, disasters, hot takes, and the stuff your PM certification never mentioned. No fluff. No thought leadership. No one saying "let's take this offline."

"I'm Marvin. You're barely managing. We all are."

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Latest · EP 01 · Origin Story
How I Fell Into Project Management and Couldn't Climb Back Out

Nobody grows up wanting to be a project manager. So how does it happen? Marvin breaks down the accidental career path, the moment you realize this is now your whole personality, and why that's both a curse and a superpower.

25 min · Season 1
EP 02
The PM Jargon Decoder: A Field Guide

What people say. What they mean. The gap between the two is where your project lives and dies.

24 min
EP 03
Agile Didn't Fail You. You Failed Agile. (Or Did You?)

A hot take on the framework that was going to fix everything and somehow made standups worse.

26 min
EP 04
The Myth of the Happy Stakeholder

They will never be satisfied. Here's how to manage that instead of pretending it isn't true.

25 min

Wherever You Survive Your Commute

Pick your platform. The suffering is the same on all of them.