April 3rd: Spring PDD - Early Bird Registration

Join us on Wednesday, April 3rd at Classics V for PMI Buffalo’s Spring PDD, with guest speaker Michael Nir.

This year’s topic is “How to Influence Without Authority”.  This issue should be familiar to most Project Managers and other corporate ‘leaders’ without formal titles.

Michal Nir is an enterprise lean-agile expert and author of ten books on influence, consumer experience, and Agile Project Management.

Seating is limited – so Don’t Delay and Register Today for the best pricing available!  This is a not-to-miss event and we look forward to seeing you there!

February 21st at Bob Evans - 6635 Transit Road - 7:15 am to 8:45 am

February’s Breakfast Roundtable will be held at Bob Evans, 1925 Niagara Fall Blvd., from 7:15am to 8:45am.  This month’s topic is “Security” – but you never know where the conversation may lead!

Join us and share your knowledge with PMI peers while having your morning coffee and pastry.  No registration is required, but if you need more information, click on the link below.  Hope to see you there!

March 12th: Mind Mapping

Join us at the Hilton Garden Inn across from the Buffalo Airport on Tuesday, March 12^th, where we will learn the Mind Mapping technique.

Our speaker for this event will be Brandon Conrad. Brandon has successfully helped develop the implementation of project management rules as they relate to mind mapping software across both North American and European markets.

We hope to see you at what we are sure will be an informative and interesting evening!

As we approach our 25^th Anniversary in 2020, we will be looking back at some of the people who made this chapter what it is today! 

This month we feature Professor Bill Hayden when Bill entered office there were 7 members and when he left there were 206! 

A funny thing happened during a PMI-Bflo Section meeting back in 1997/1998 or thereabout. Gary Dahlstorm, then the President of the PMI-Bflo section, distributed a draft-copy of a letter he intended to send to our section’s members announcing that our section was dissolving due to an apparent lack of interest. So, at the very next Board meeting I asked if there was a willingness to continue, with myself taking a turn as the PMI-Bflo Section President, and Connie Feuz as VP. I presented a general plan of revitalization based on my prior professional society experiences in ASCE, NSPE, ACEC, ASQ and PMI in different locations as my civil engineering work had taken me from New York City to Newark, NJ, Houston, Texas, Redding, California, Jacksonville, Florida, Greenbelt, Maryland, and now into Erie County, New York. Within ASQ, I was a co-founder of the new special interest group, the Design & Construction Division (DCD). And within PMI a co-founder of the special interest group Design, Procurement and Construction SIG (DPC SIG). Also, was a co-founder of the NE Florida PMI Chapter.

A major part of the PMI-Bflo sections revitalization was the engagement of expert speakers for monthly meetings that offered attendees an opportunity to increase their value in the project management profession. And to broaden the local membership base beyond the West Valley program region. To be clear, the management support of the West Valley folks was vital to the PMI-Bflo startup, but not sufficient to take it to higher levels of membership and a broader base.

Within 2 years, the section was up on its feet, doing great, so I turned it over to the next president, Connie Feuz.

  Presidents Message January 2019 ! 

January’s President’s message from Jeff Manhardt highlighting PMI Buffalo’s 2018 achievements can now be found at the link below, including:

PMI Buffalo’s accomplishments in 2018, events coming up for 2019, and a summary of upcoming changes on the board including directors who are moving on in 2019.  And of course, our upcoming 25^th Anniversary in 2020!