Our Instructors ROCK!
“Do you have a category for (he) rocks?!” That Student quote is one of several that I shared with our Velociteach Instructor Team at the summit this year at Lake Lanier Islands Resort. Our purpose was to review materials and collaborate on changes for the pending change to the 5th Edition PMBOK Guide. (The PMP [...]
A History Lesson For Me
Today I was honored to give the keynote address at the PMI Westchester Professional Development Day in New York. I always enjoy speaking at PDDs and similar events, but the highlight of my day was to spend time with PMI founder Jim Snyder, who talked about his experience in creating the PMI in 1969 and [...]
Velociteach Wins US Chamber Award
Velociteach was honored today by the the US Chamber of Commerce as one of the top 100 small businesses in the USA for 2013. The criteria were revenue growth, job creation, and a record of overcoming adversity. We will be attending the US Small Business Summit in Washington, DC on April 30, where the top [...]
Where to Begin?
I recently began managing a project for an Atlanta-based charity, 21st Century Leaders. Actually, the team is made up of very smart, very talented volunteers, so “coordinating” would be more accurate than “managing” in this case. Most of us have experienced that moment when a group of people looks to the project manager and asks [...]
The Ghost of Frederick Taylor
Frederick Taylor gets a bad rap these days. As you’ll remember, he started the whole Scientific Management movement. Unfortunately, his conclusions are also credited with the onset of sweatshops and inhumane working conditions. Recently I was in a meeting where one person conjectured that it was Fredrick Taylor who was responsible for Foxconn, which has received [...]
Happy 10th Birthday, Velociteach!
This week (technically September 30) marks Velociteach’s 10th birthday. It was on a Monday morning ten years ago that I began working on a business model and pro forma for a new kind management training and services company. When I founded Velociteach, I sensed an opportunity to bring together things I loved (project management, writing, [...]
Headphones in the office
Headphones in the office…good idea or bad idea? This summer we had a development team working on a project to deliver InSite online courses on iPads, tablets, and other mobile devices. The team found it productive to collaborate in a conference room, as they stumbled across random Java calls, guzzled Mtn. Dew, cursed ill-conceived design [...]
Collaboration Tools for PMs
I will admit something: I was a big fan of the ill-fated Google Wave. It was a great way for teams to collaborate on documents and deliverables. It kept track of the evolving conversation right alongside of the deliverable. If someone came into the project after it had already started, you could send him back [...]
The Good News About Bad News
During my last two years of college, I worked as a co-op with IBM. My boss, a straightforward and serious individual, cut straight out of a bolt of IBM-blue cloth, used to tell those of us in his department “bad news does not get better with age.” It took a while for that advice to [...]
Inspiration that rivals the Olympics!
Work got you down? Struggling with your studies to prep for the PMP or CAPM? Been watching the Olympics for inspiration? Want a little more? I’ve got a story for you. I’ll share one story from the Blue-Skies Week mentioned in an earlier post. During the week, we had daily breakout sessions for all the [...]
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