Rita Mulcahy, PMP, M.B.A.
President, RMC Project Management, Inc.  Rita Mulcahy (Mul-kay-he), PMP, is the President and founder of RMC Project Management, Inc., and a world-renowned project management author, trainer and speaker. She presents the following workshops:
- PMP® Exam Prep Training
- Tricks of the Trade® for:
- Project Management Fundamentals
- Risk Management
- Determining Customer Requirements
- Planning
- Contracting
- Negotiation
- Estimating
- Program and Senior Management's Role on Projects
- What Makes A Project Manager Successful?
- Why Do Projects Fail?
- Ways to Improve your Project Management Abilities
- All PMI® PMBOK® Guide Subjects
- PM for Team Members, Senior Management and Sales Executives
- Any customized training
| Recent Awards: - A reviewer for PMI's WBS standard
- Winner of the PMI® Professional Development Product of the Year 2004
- Asked to present encore presentations at PMI's annual conference for four years in a row
Rita is famous for delivering workshops that are full of content, fun and information, and use accelerated adult learning theory. Her speeches always draw record attendance! Rita's philosophy is to provide the very best-in-the-world project management training, consulting and speaking. She gives 200% to everything she does as evidenced by the rave reviews from previous clients. Rita has particular expertise in: - Root cause analysis to solve consulting problems effectively
- The process of real-world project management
- The PMP® Exam
- Contract and procurement management
- Risk Management – A founding member of PMI® Risk Special Interest Group and a researcher on international risk management
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A sample of the organizations from which people have attended her seminars and workshops are included in RMC's client list.
Rita is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a long-time member of PMI and ASTD. She has taught courses for George Washington University, Rensselaer Polytechnic and University of Wisconsin and has been associated with large, international, project management training firms.
Rita has taught thousands of project managers, senior managers and team members and is one of the trainers PMI uses for worldwide training. She has been invited to speak at major international project management conferences including PMI and ProjectWorld.
Member of Project Management Institute (PMI) from 1990-present, past chapter President and Vice President 1990-1999.
During her project management career Rita has worked on over $2.5 billion dollars worth of the following types of projects:
- Information Systems/
Information Technology (IS/IT) - Engineering
- New Product Development
- High-Tech
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- Construction
- New Service Development
- Government
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Publications Record
Rita Mucahy, PMP
I. Professional Books and Publications
- CAPM® Exam Prep, 2006, the complete guide to getting ready to take the CAPM® exam including review material, games, exercises and sample exams
- Risk Management, Tricks of the Trade® for Project Managers, 2003, this book is a must as the primary text for risk management courses and for those people who want a clear and effective way to apply risk management to their projects
- PMP® Exam Prep, 1999, 2001, and 2003, the complete guide to getting ready to take the PMP® exam including review material, games, exercises and sample exams
- PM FASTrack®, 2003, A PMP® Simulation computer software program designed to test one's knowledge of the PMP® exam and the PMBOK Guide®
- Hot Topics, 2002 and 2003, a book of flashcards to get ready for the PMP® and CAPM® exams
- Situational and Professional Responsibility Q&A, 2002, A book of 150 questions to get ready for the PMP® exam
- Project Management for the Business Professional, 2000, John Wiley and Sons (contracts chapter)
- Provided assistance for a number of chapters in the book Information Technology Project Management, 1999, by Kathy Schwalbe
- A reviewer for PMI's WBS standard (2002)
- Reviewer and contributor to the PMBOK® Guide (3rd Edition)
II. Papers and Articles Presented and Written
- What Every PM Needs to Know - Presented at PMI® 2003, including a much-coveted encore presentation
- What Makes a Project Manager Successful? – 2003 – Denver, Loveland and Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bloomington, IL
- What Makes a Project Manager Successful? – Part 2, 2002 – Presented at PMI® '02 to standing room only crowds and a coveted encore presentation
- Five Ways Sales Can Make Projects Successful?, 2000, to be presented at PMI® '00
- More Creative Training Techniques, 1999, presented at PMI® '99 including a second much coveted encore presentation
- What Makes Projects Fail?, 1999, presented at PMI® '99
- 10 Ways to Improve Your Ability to Manage Projects, 1999, Minnesota Technology Magazine
- What Makes A Project Manager Successful?, 1998, presented at PMI® '98 including a much-coveted encore presentation
- Creative Training Techniques, 1998, presented at PMI® '98
- Tricks for Handling Contracts, 1998, presented at PMI® '98
- Numerous other articles on the topic of project management
Eccentric is an overused word, but as a description of Bristol, the reclusive British carmaker, it seems perfectly apt. Imagine a sideboard on wheels, add a whacking great American V8 and you've got a Blenheim. Bristol got by building variations of these for years (and years) until suddenly it decided a supercar was desperately needed to complete the line-up. Thus, the 200mph Fighter was born, and having gotten hip to the new millennium, Bristol can't stop improving the specification of the thing. Apparently due to customer demand - no seriously, Bristol customers do attend trackdays - the new Fighter T has an utterly bonkers 1012bhp and immense 1036lb ft of torque.
The Pagani Zonda has never been about outright top speed. When you've got such extravagant design and exquisite detailing, not to mention epic acceleration, sublime handling and a pair of shoes made by the Pope's cobbler included in the asking price, becoming part of the supercar elite was almost a given. And Pagani's done it in record time - going from obscurity to revered supercar status in the blink of an eye. Still, it's nice to know you can back up all that flash with a bit of firepower if you need to, and the introduction of the 214mph Zonda F nicely boosts a range that otherwise barely cracks the magic 200.
Lamborghini is synonymous with flamboyance. So when it unveiled this car at the 2006 Geneva motorshow, the world gasped. Who on earth had decided to paint a Murciélago in gloss primer grey? But the LP640 isn't any ordinary Murciélago , and we rather suspect the utilitarian hue wasn't just about making the car look harder than a Stealthbomber on a night out. Toning down the paint helps emphasize that this Lamborghini is all about performance, an impression enhanced by the optional transparent engine cover that keeps the LP640's wailing V12 hard permanently on display.
What kind of supercar really needs a special edition? Well pretty much everyone is at it these days so that's something of a moot point. But if anything does, it's the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren - which has the unfortunate double problem of the McLaren F1 as a forefather and various AMG Mercedes as siblings. Ceramic brakes and an unrestricted top speed are all very well, but you don't really expect them to be combined with an automatic gearbox and the interior from an executive saloon.
The Ferrari Enzo was such a technical tour de force that it's easy to imagine the engineers at Maranello scratching their heads over what to do next. No such luck for the competition as it turns out, since in developing a replacement for the 575M Maranello, Ferrari have completely re-written the script for front-engined GT supercars. Other cars on this list may be faster - in some cases very much so - but the 599 GTB Fiorano is just fantastically accomplished to drive.
The original Vanquish could never really be accused of being short of power, but such is the pace of development these days its cheaper DB9 relative was snapping at its heels in the performance department. Costing some £60,000 more than the DB9 that simply wouldn't do. So the Vanquish S was born, raising power from its front-mounted V12 to 520bhp, a hike of 60bhp. That also pushes the top speed of this British bruiser up beyond the 200mph barrier.
America is another notable absentee, but the most likely candidate, Saleen's S7 Twin Turbo makes no greater claim than 200mph+, even if previous talk had suggested 260mph might be possible. The UK's very own Ultima also claims 200mph+ for certain versions of the GTR, but specifications are quite individual. What we can say for certain is that Ultima does hold the 0-100mph-0 world record, with its GTR720 performing the feat in 9.4 seconds - half a second faster than even the Veyron can manage. Another UK wild card is the Barabus TKR, which was a surprise showing at this year's British motorshow, and is theoretically good for 270mph.
But then they also claim 0-62 in less than two seconds, and we're really not sure if that's possible. But for totally off-the-wall (and totally unverifiable) try Project 1221, an Italian concern apparently building a turbine powered supercar with the equivalent of 1500bhp and a 270mph+ top speed%u2026