...is a Project Planning & Controls Manager and contractor for the ground system of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, a joint project between the USGS and NASA. His academic background includes a BS in Project Management, summa cum laude. Josh holds the PMP certification.
Josh can be contacted at joshnankivel@gmail.com Josh Nankivel
...is a Project Planning & Controls Manager and contractor for the ground system of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, a joint project between the USGS and NASA. His academic background includes a BS in Project Management, summa cum laude. Josh holds the PMP certification.
Josh can be contacted at joshnankivel@gmail.com Project Management Book Recommendations from Glen Alleman
Glen Alleman over at Herding Cats is someone who I respect, and also works in a similar project environment as I do. I asked Glen for his book recommendations on project management in general, and specific to government contracting and projects in the aerospace/defense arena. Glen responded with a post on his own blog with [...] Read more »
How and Why I Passed the PMP Exam
I passed the PMP Exam recently, and wanted to share my experience in general. For those opposed to the PMP exam, please read before commenting, you may be surprised. Read more »
Effective Opportunity Management for Projects
Glen Alleman left a comment recommending several resources for me, one of which is the book “Effective Opportunity Management for Projects“. I am reading it now and would like to share some of my initial insights thus far.
I’ve found the authors agree with me that standard risk management approaches mostly pay lip service to opportunity [...] Read more »
SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes
A simply wonderful introduction video to SCRUM by Hamid Shojaee. Very well done indeed! Read more »
PM Lectures - Project Management Training
I recently went through a course from PMLectures called “Dealing with Difficult People” by Margaret Meloni. I’m earning some PDU’s with it but I also learned a lot of techniques to help me deal better with people I work with every day.
In short, the video presentation goes through Read more »
Let Them Fail
I listened to one of my favorite podcasts yesterday, EconTalk. The episode was a discussion about credit default swaps and more generally about the financial woes we have gotten ourselves into. Then this morning, I read this article in the New York Times, “U.S. Shifts Focus in Credit Bailout to the Consumer”.
[Editor: Digressing so early in the post?] (don’t worry, I’ll tie this into project management at some point)! Read more »
A Time to Honor
Today is Veteran’s Day, and I want to give thanks to all the women and men who have served and are serving their country. My brother Zach is currently in the middle East serving in the Navy’s Mobile Security Forces.
I was very young when my father went to basic training, but I still remember missing [...] Read more »
New Website to Rate & Review Project Management Resources
PM Opinions is a new website dedicated to helping project managers sort through all the resources and products out there. This is a valuable service, and just like any other website with ratings & reviews it helps you get a good feel for something before spending time or money researching it yourself. Read more »
The Case for Opportunity Management
Glen B. Alleman left a great comment with a link to an article refuting the need for Opportunity Management (OM). I have reviewed the article and feel it is describing a version of OM that is not what I am proposing. I’m still formulating my thoughts on this, so please excuse me if it sounds like random babble!!!! 
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The Need for a New Knowledge Area
So I’m doing some PMP sample test questions today and ran into one where at the end, additional things were added and the customer is very happy. According to the answer, this project was unsuccessful because the additional features were “gold plating” which wastes time and probably cost. I got this wrong because I read “the project has added [this and that]” as the [this and that] = intended product of the project.
But there’s a deeper insight here. Read more »
All About SCRUM
SCRUM is something I have some experience with, and I believe there are many tools and techniques that grew up in various methodologies that we all can learn from. You may already know that I’ve written about SCRUM on pmStudent.com before, and the various applications of techniques that can be relevant to all types of projects, even those far removed from software development. Read more »
Thank you, all over the world!
pmStudent is currently read in over 109 countries around the world. I want to thank everyone who writes for a reads pmStudent.com! I hope it is fulfilling the mission of adding value for everyone who writes for and reads it. I wanted to show you user maps from the top 5 countries where pmStudent.com is read and highlight them. Read more »
PMI Global Congress 2008 Debrief
I’m back from Denver and would like to share some highlights with you about the event and the PMI New Media Council that I’m now a part of. Read more »
Stepping into Emotional Pressure
Courtesy of connectleadership.com, this video does a wonderful job of illustrating a soft skill technique you can use in your daily work to deal with difficult situations. Read more »
PMI Global Congress 2008
The PMI is forming a “New Media Council” and they have asked me to be on it. I’m honored to have been asked, and gratefully accepted.
In this capacity, I will also be in Denver between October 17-21 for the Global Congress at the convention center. Please email me if you’ll be in the area and would like to meet for a chat. Read more »
