Written by Jeff Furman on April 8, 2012 – 11:31 pm
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 [...]
Written by Jeff Furman on April 1, 2012 – 5:23 pm
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: [...]
Written by Jeff Furman on October 29, 2011 – 6:20 pm
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 [...]
Written by Jeff Furman on October 19, 2011 – 7:46 pm
“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 [...]
Written by Jeff Furman on August 12, 2011 – 9:38 am
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by well-known London-based book author and blogger Elizabeth Harrin: “Getting some answers: an interview with Jeff Furman” which just came out as part of Elizabeth’s “Summer of Books 2011″ series, on her widely-read blog: “A Girl’s Guide To Project Management.” Here is a photo of Elizabeth (left) interviewing [...]
Written by Jeff Furman on April 12, 2011 – 8:41 am
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 [...]
Written by Jeff Furman on March 3, 2011 – 8:08 pm
If you like learning about what goes on behind the scenes of a book, you’ll like my latest interview with Elizabeth Harrin: http://talkingwork.com/?p=902 NOTE – Elizabeth Harrin is the author of “Social Media For Project Managers” and her award-winning blog: A Girl’s Guide To Project Management: www.PM4Girls.com.
