Upcoming Chapter Meetings
September 16th - Thursday (Dinner meeting) - Location: Locust Hill Country Club
Topic Risk Management:To increase the odds of successfully completing any project, a Project Manager must understand both the characteristics of a project that might decrease success rates as well as specific risk events that can harm a project. In this session, project managers will learn to evaluate various categories of risk to determine how risky a project is to an organization. They will also learn to identify specific risk events, consider risk management techniques and contingencies as well as how to initiate risk control strategies.
Speaker Bio: Nancy Blumenstalk Mingus is President of Mingus Associates, Inc., a Buffalo-based project management consulting company founded in 1989. She has been working with and teaching project management and project management software for nearly thirty years with clients such as Warner Bros., Sony, Sara Lee, Cigna, McCain Foods, Minnesota Mutual, Ralston Purina, NCR, Galileo, Inacom, M&T Bank, Norfolk Southern, Nike, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Rich Products, Moog, and the states of Virginia, Montana, Oregon, Alabama and Illinois. She also teaches project management at Empire State College and the University of Phoenix. She is a founding member and on the board of the Buffalo Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI), and received her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 1996. She has been teaching PMP certification classes since 1997 and her book Teach Yourself Project Management in 24 Hours, released in 2001, has sold more than 25,000 copies.