1) NYC SCRUM Users Group  Day/Date/Time: Wednesday, May 2nd, 6:00 PM Topic: “Innovation Games”  (Come out to learn how collaborative play can be used to solve complex problems!) Location: EURO RSCG, 350 Hudson Street, 9th Floor Speaker:   Luke Hohmann of Innovation Games Meeting Leader: Rob Purdie ==> Registration Link (Registration STILL OPEN for tomorrow’s event) 2) Agile NYC Topic: ”Who Is The User In [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

LINK: Review of my book ”The Project Management Answer Book” by: The American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (affiliated with the International Association of Project Management).   You might also be interested in: – My new article: “Top 10 Tips For  Marketing A Book Using Social Media” – My upcoming PMP classes: “3 classes in NYC, [...]

1) The Agile NYC Open (“What Is So Executive About Agile?”) Day/Date: Monday Feb. 27 Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Presenters: Christopher Avery, Bill Joiner, Jochen Krebs, Dan Mezick (Facilitator) Sponsor: Agile NYC Users’ Group (Jochen Krebs) Location: Pace University - 3 Spruce Street – Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts NY NY 10038 1/24/12 Dan LeFebvre To Register: Register Agile NYC [...]

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 [...]

5 Agile events in Manhattan this month (the first 4 offering PDUs for PMPs). 1) “Turbo-Charging Agile Software Development with Lean Methods and Systems Thinking” (presented by NY SPIN) Date / Time: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 5:30 – 8:00 PM Location: 1290 Avenue of the Americas between 51st and 52nd St. (Microsoft Offices) PRESENTER: Satish Thatte To [...]

1) NYC SCRUM Users Group  Day/Date/Time: Wednesday, May 2nd, 6:00 PM Topic: “Innovation Games”  (Come out to learn how collaborative play can be used to solve complex problems!) Location: EURO RSCG, 350 Hudson Street, 9th Floor Speaker:   Luke Hohmann of Innovation Games Meeting Leader: Rob Purdie ==> Registration Link (Registration STILL OPEN for tomorrow’s event) 2) Agile NYC Topic: ”Who Is The User In [...]