Project Manager of the Year – Nominations Close Wednesday March 20th!
PMI conjunction with InfoTech WNY present the Project Manager of the Year Award.
Do you know someone in your organization who has done an outstanding job of being a Project Manager this year?
If so nominations for the 2019 Project manager of the Year are open until Wednesday, March 20th at 4:00pm.
Nominate a colleague today for this prestigious award!
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Dan Cockerell at Kleinhans Music Hall - Monday, April 1st !
PMI Buffalo and InfoTech WNY are proud to present Dan Cockerell, former Walt Disney World VP, to Buffalo for a presentation on “How to Deliver a World Class Customer Experience and the Role of Technology”.
Dan had a 27-year career with Disney and will be speaking on how leadership can create high performance to engage employees, focusing on a customer-first mentality, and how to compensate when we fall short of our goals. Join us for a great evening with one of the industry’s best leaders!
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April 26th: PMI-ACP Training
PMI in conjunction with GR8PM present an Agile Certified Practitioner Certification Class.
PMI-ACP is the fastest growing certification in PMI history. Combining Expert Agile content integrated with materials based on the PMBOK v6 will prepare you for the PMI-ACP exam.
If you are looking for your PMI-ACP certification, this is the class that will get you there!
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April 3rd: Spring PDD
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!
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As we approach our 25th 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.
