Upcoming Agile / SCRUM / PM Events in NYC in May
Teaching 4 weeks of PMP Bootcamp in June Will update this page next for July 2012 Jeff Furman (@PMAnswerBook) 1) NYC [...]
Upcoming Agile Events In Manhattan in April 2012
1) NYC SCRUM Users Group Day/Date/Time: Tuesday, April 10th, 6:00 PM Topic: - Intro to Business Value Engineering Speaker: Joe Little of Kitty Hawk Consulting Location: EURO RSCG, 350 Hudson Street, 9th Floor Meeting Leader: Rob Purdie ==> Registration Link 2) PMI NYC "Agile: Your Tough Questions Answered" Presenter: Mark C. Layton, CST, Platinum Edge, Inc. (recognized globally as Mr. AgileTM) Day/Date: Monday, April 9th Time: [...]
Upcoming Agile Events in Manhattan in March 2012
BUT FIRST... some photos from the AgileNYC Open this week in Manhattan: - Agile NYC Open <-- A gallery of photos of this week's Agile NYC Open at Pace U. (courtesy of Larry Mantrone, PMP/CSM) - Ilio Krumins-Beens <-- One of the Agile Instructors at the event, leading an excellent seminar at the Agile NYC Open - ShortVideo.Morning.AgileNYCOpen <-- A short [...]
2012! Upcoming Agile Events in MANHATTAN (The “Agile NYC Open” & more)
1) NY SPIN: Topic: Small Agile Steps, Big Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Impact Presenter: Claude Remillard Day/Date: Tuesday, February 7 Location: 1290 Avenue of the Americas, between 51st and 52nd Streets (Microsoft) Sponsor: Microsoft To Register: ClaudeRemillard 2) PMI NYC Agile & IIBA Topic: "Collaboration Workshops: Discover, Plan, and Prepare Your Product Backlog" Presenter: Ellen [...]
Announcement: PMI has added my book to their eReads & References site
PMI has just added my book: "The Project Management Answer Book" to their listings on their eReads & References page. Question: Did you know about this benefit for PMI members? Here's what PMI says about their eReads & References page: "Use eReads & References as an on-the-job guide, a research and study aid, or to preview [...]
Going for your PMP? Top 10 Reasons To Buy “The Project Management Answer Book”
"The Project Management Answer Book" will help you increase your knowledge and get your PMP, as it has for many Project Managers in the U.S. and around the world. It was recently named one of the "Top 10 Books Every Project Manager Should Have In His Or Her Collection" by Bright Hub and has also received very [...]
Three PM / Agile Anniversary Events in NYC in October!
As a sign of the ever-increasing popularity of Agile, there are two Agile Anniversary Events coming up in NYC next week, one for the Agile NYC Users Group and one for the NYC SCRUM Users Group. And one more BIG anniversary: The NYC Chapter of PMI, which in the past year has been running a [...]
Is it possible to screen for Ethics in a candidate? (Hint: Yes!)
The other day I was meeting with the senior manager and he told me that one of his biggest problems is poor Ethics in his employees. He said he felt that Ethics was impossible to screen for in applicants, because A) every candidate will say he or she is very ethical, and B) [...]
Top 10 Reasons To Take Jeff Furman’s PMP Class
Top 10 Benefits of Jeff Furman's PMP class: 1. Highly-experienced PMP instructor - I've taught more than 85 weeks of PMP/CAPM (more than 550 students!) I've trained hundreds of PMs from private industry, US Federal Government, and NYC government (in Manhattan, Bethesda MD, Carlyss LA, Fremont CA, Houston TX, Philadelphia PA, Washington DC and Fort Hood TX for the US [...]
Upcoming Agile Events in NYC (end of September / October)
1) IIBA NYC Speaker: Emiliano Soldi, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM Topic: "Agile PM: A Tradeoff Between Proactivity & Reactivity" Emiliano Soldi, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM Day / Date: Monday, August 13, 2012 Time: 5:30 - 9:00 PM Location: Microsoft - 1290 Avenue of the Americas (6th Floor: Tavern / Carousel) Key take-aways: Understanding how complexity can be reduced and faced [...]