One of the best leadership books I have ever read is: The Manager’s Book of Decencies: How Small Gestures Build Great Companies, by Steve Harrison (McGraw-Hill), for all project managers, team leaders, and executives. Steve Harrison is Chairman of Lee, Hecht, Harrison, the premier career management and leadership consulting firm. He is also the former [...]

Many PMs get their start by one day finding themselves “thrown into” managing projects. A new buzzword for this is “Accidental PM.”  Are you one?  You’re NOT alone! In my case, I was a technical trainer, who started falling into supporting the I.T. products I was training on.  Then one morning I got a big surprise [...]

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: [...]

  I attended another great PMI conference (my third-in-a-row) in Dallas last week. If you attended also, Please share Your Highlights in the “Leave a Reply” box. 1. Keynote Speaker: Malcolm Gladwell, author of “Blink,” “The Tipping Point“ and “Outliers.” Much of his talk was about Steve Jobs, and how he felt that Jobs epitomized the [...]

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 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 [...]

Cornelius interviews me about my new book, “The Project Management Answer Book,” and we go into detail on several of the Q&As in the book. We also discuss the upcoming changes to the PMP test (effective Aug. 31, 2011). And Cornelius tells his listeners how they have 2 chances to win a free copy of the book!