Reaching international readers is very special to me because my parents both emigrated to the US from Poland (neither one speaking any English). I wrote The Project Management Answer Book in easy-to-read Q&A format: to make the PMI best practices short and clear, but also highly-detailed, with more info than the PMBOK on many of [...]
1) SPECIAL EVENT: PMI NYC ROOF-TOP PARTY! PMI NYC Roof-Top Networking Party (May 26) Day/Date/Time: Tuesday, May 26, 6:00 PM Location: Monarch 71 West 35th Street Registration Link 2) "SPECIAL EVENT: Big Apple Scrum Day!" (June 1, 2015) Dana Pylayeva, Big Apple Scrum Day - June 1 [...]
1) S.H.E. Summit! (Special Event) Day/Date/Time: October 6th and 7th Location: 92nd Street Y (Manhattan) Registration / Speaker Info 2) New York City: The Great Reset! (Free) Freedom Tower, 6/28/2015 Photo: Jeff Furman Day/Date/Time: Wednesday, July 29, 6:00 PM Location: NYU Kimmel Center For University Life, [...]
Thanks again to author / blogger / Agile Evangelist Soma Bhattacharya for interviewing me for her blog: Stepping Into PM: The Journey Continues. New Resources Pt 1 - Interview with Jeff Furman This is a special short and crisp series of posts that promise to help you get prepped up for 2015. And we start with some new [...]
Carolyn Wendrowski (Jan 26) 1. Agile NYC with the Rockefeller Foundation - Jan. 26 Day/Date/Time: Monday, Jan. 26, 5:30 Location: Pace University, 163 William Street (2nd Floor) Speakers: Carolyn Wendrowski and Jose Diaz (The Rockefeller Foundation) Topic: "Infusing Agile Beyond IT" Registration Link 2) Speed Mentoring (PMINYC - [...]
Photo taken from the NYC Scrum meeting led by Nancy Winslow on July 17, 2014: "Intrinsic Motivation – The Oxygen To Organically Motivate Scrum Teams” Enjoyed the excellent presentation by Nancy Winslow, PMP, CSM -- Details below: Based on the work of Daniel Pink, Nancy will explain how science has proven the power of intrinsic [...]
1) New York SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) - Jan. 30 5:30 PM Topic: "Effective Communication for Project Success ... and a Proven Structuring Tool to Get It Right" Day/Date/Time: Thursday, Jan. 30, 5:30 - 7:30 (RESCHEDULED due to SNOW) Presenters: Gordon Adelsberg and Ravi Bhatia [...]
1) NYC SCRUM - Nov 21 - FREE! Complex Adaptive Systems And Scaling Agile Location: IBM Design Lab, 590 Madison Ave Speaker: Dr. Carol Mase Registration Link Note - I have seen Dr. Carol Mase give several very well-received presentations for PMI NYC and also [...]
IBM Design Lab, NYC (NYC Scrum) 1) NYC SCRUM Users' Group (Free) Day/Date: Thursday, August 15th Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM Topic: Introduction to ToP Facilitation Methods (ToP) Presenter: Aley Kent Location: IBM Design Lab (590 Madison, NY NY 10022) Registration Link [...]
I was honored to be asked by Elizabeth to write a guest blog for her famous blogsite: "A Girl's Guide To Project Management." "My Life Is A PMP Ethics Question" is based on an experience I had as a PM that if I could go back in time and get a "do-over" (like Bill Murray [...]