1) PMI NYC - Annual Business Meeting (Holiday Dinner) Mark Resch, PMP, LSSBB, ITIL Day/Date/Time: January 17, 2019 This event is always half-meeting/half-party! (Great venue, great speaker, great food) TOPIC: Relentless Engagement: Mission First, People Always Presenter: Marc Resch, PMP, LSSBB, ITIL Location: Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavillion (60 Washington Square Park South) Price: FREE FOR [...]
1) NYC Scrum: Retrospective (9-Year Anniversary) Session Leaders: Dana Pylayeva, Scrum Master/Book Author, and Mary Pratt, Co-Founder at Stealth Start-Up Above: Mary Pratt, Co-Founder at Stealth Start-Up Above: Dana Pylayeva, CSM / Book Author Above: Rob Purdie, IBM Agile Evangelist and Original Founder of NYC Scrum! Day/Date/Time: Thursday, Oct 18, 6:00 - 8:00 Session: [...]
This weekend I was lucky to attend PMI's North American Conference 2018 in LA! The presentations were very high-caliber and informative. Below are photos from 5 of my favorite sessions. And good news for my many contacts here in the Northeast: next year's PMINAC will be in Philadelphia for PMI's 50th Anniversary! (Starts October [...]
Many PMPs will tell you the two most difficult areas of study for their PMP test were: Earned Value Management (EVM), and Critical Path Method (CPM). To give PMP candidates an extra boost, I teach full 1-Day classes on each of these 2 topics at NYU SPS. These courses have been the icing on [...]
There was a packed house yesterday at Pace University for the 9th Annual Agile Day NYC, led by Jochen Krebs and his team at Agile NYC, the group he founded 9 years ago. HIGHLIGHTS 1) Outstanding Opening Keynote: Caitlin Walker, Book Author, International Speaker, and Director at Clean Language Ltd. Caitlin gave an excellent, [...]
Per this Announcement from PMI, the CAPM Exam can now be taken from home. This will relieve a lot of the anxiety for test-takers, making it easier to pass. AND MORE HELP FOR YOUR CAPM: 1) My PMP Prep Class Many of my students have taken my class and quickly passed their CAPM on [...]
1) Agile Day NYC (Wednesday, September 5) Keynote by Caitlin Walker: "Creating the context for a #DramaFree team" Caitlin Walker (Author, TedX speaker, Director of Clean Learning) Day/Date/Time: Wednesday, September 5, 9:00 - 5:00 Location: Pace University (Bianco Room), 1 Pace Plaza, NYC Info/Reg Starting an Agile Open Space session 2. PMI [...]
1. BEERS & BLOCKCHAIN! Group: JC Tech Meetup Event:"Panel: Beers & Blockchain" Host: Peter J. McAliney Day/Date/Time: Thursday, August 2, 6:30 - 9:00 Location: The Atrium, Jersey City Info/Reg Link 2. NYU SPS Open House / Information Session (Offering 10% off on course registration!) Event: NYU SPS is offering an Open House, where you will [...]
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. It provides more info than the PMBOK on many of the topics, and also offers hands-on templates, helpful diagrams, and proven study aids to help PMs toward the PMP and CAPM [...]
Recently students from a couple of my PMP classes surprised me with gifts for Mavis, who Martha and I adopted from Sean Casey's Animal Rescue in Park Slope. I wanted to thank my students by putting up these photos of Mavis enjoying her gifts! Supporting Los Cafeteros! (jersey all the way from one of [...]