For Project Managers, Program Managers and IT Executives looking to make their projects more efficient and profitable, "Managing The Black Hole: The Executive's Guide To Software Project Risk (Business Expert Publishing) is a very practical and "deep-dive" book, with a lot of valuable suggestions and tips that I think will be fresh ideas to many readers. The [...]
5 Agile events in Manhattan this month (the first 4 offering PDUs for PMPs). 1) “Turbo-Charging Agile Software Development with Lean Methods and Systems Thinking” (presented by NY SPIN) Date / Time: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 5:30 – 8:00 PM Location: 1290 Avenue of the Americas between 51st and 52nd St. (Microsoft Offices) PRESENTER: Satish Thatte To [...]
Switched to a MacBook Pro and am a happy camper (after about 15 years with Windows PCs). Ed Grimley: "The speed and quality are like a joke, I must say!" Here are a few conversion tips I picked up as I was making my conversion, to help others making the change, or considering a Mac. [...]
I recently attended an excellent presentation at the NYC Agile Users Group in Manhattan Agile expert / book author Neal Ford presented: “Case Study: Rails in the Large – How Agility Allows Us to Build The World’s Biggest Rails App” (location: Euro RSCG, 350 Hudson Street, Tribeca, NYC). What was so good about it? Here a few [...]
How many times have you attended presentations where the presenter knew the content, but the slides were too busy, or there were technical glitches which distracted the audience? I have given hundreds of classes and presentations, and also taught many Train The Trainer classes. And I've put my best 10 tips into an article: "Top 10 Trainer's Tips For PMs Giving [...]
Per PMI's Announcement there are significant changes coming to the PMP exam effective Aug. 31st, especially that there will no longer be a separate section on Ethics. Instead, Ethics & Social Responsibility questions will be interspersed throughout the 5 Process Group sections (making the test harder!) HOW MY BOOK CAN HELP YOU WITH THIS CHANGE: My book, "The Project Management Answer Book" offers an extensive chapter on Ethics (much [...]
I see there's a new book out called "Mob Rules: What The Mafia Can Teach The Legitimate Businessman," by Louis Ferrante. But The Project Management Answer Book, came first, and uses Vito Corleone and Tony Soprano to help give examples of several key concepts. A few key comparisons: - Only "Mob Rules" was written by a former member of the Gambino crime [...]
This spring I was asked by a student, Derek Mulvey, at Steven's Institute in Hoboken (Howe School of Technology Management) to participate in several interviews about an IT project I had led for a brokerage firm in NYC. The student needed a large project from the real world to analyze and report on as a case-study for his [...]
Met "Joey Pants" (Joe Pantoliano, Sopranos & film star -- Risky Business & many others!) yesterday at the BEA signing autographs for his new book "ASYLUM" which looks great! Asylum <=Joe Pantoliano's new book I've been a big fan of Joe Pantoliano since "Risky Business." He talked to me about two of his earlier movies: "Eddie And The Cruisers" and the [...]
One of the training activities I developed for my PMP class was selected to be part of a new book filled with hands-on activities trainers can model from and use in the classroom: "The Book of Road-Tested Activities." This very creative and valuable book was compiled and edited by renowned training expert Elaine Biech, and published jointly by Pfeiffer (an imprint [...]