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 [...]
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 [...]
My book, "The Project Management Answer Book," is now available as an eBook (2 vendors, both at discounts off the hardcopy price) as follows: 1) Kindle Edition (Amazon) - http://www.amazon.com/Project-Management-Answer-Book-ebook/dp/B004W48V88/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1303694752&sr=8-2 2) Google Books: https://market.android.com/details?id=book-NzqjyrngYpEC
This webinar was recorded live recently for the PM Lessons Learned group and is now a free downloadable podcast. You will hear: My interview with Henry Will, founder & president of PM Lessons Learned Walk through some of the most critical pitfalls from the "Top 10 Pitfall Lists" in my book: ~The Project Management Answer Book~ Learn to [...]
A PM I met this week had a concern that she might not be eligible for her PMP because she hadn't done PM work in the last 2 years. The False Rumor: Is that you can't apply for your PMP exam if you haven't been employed doing project work the last 3 years. The True Fact: [...]
This is a very fun podcast to listen to, "Episode #178: One More Question" at: http://www.project-management-podcast.com/index.php/episodes/389-episode-176-one-more-question Here is how host Cornelius Fichtner describes this episode: "Did you notice that in the past few months, if you listened all the way to the end of some of our interviews - and I mean, really ALL the way to the [...]