Tuesday, December 1, 2026 | 6:30PM to 8:00PM

This Event will be delivered via Zoom Meeting

Note: Registrants will be sent a confirmation email, and a reminder email with the Zoom link prior to the meeting!

Agenda:
6:30 - 6:45 pm – Get Connected, Introductions & Announcements – Amin Behzadi
6:45 - 7:40 pm – Guest Speaker – Nigel Blampied
7:40 - 7:55 pm – Q&A
7:55 - 8:00 pm – Final remarks and close out

The PM for this event is: Amin Behzadi - [email protected]

Registration closes: Monday, November 30, 2026 at Midnight

Project Management in the Public Sector: How Public Sector Projects Differ from those in the Private Sector
with Nigel Blampied

Did you know that the United States Air Force invented the title “project manager”?

In fact, much of the early development of project management was on projects performed for the government.

This webinar will discuss project management by the government rather than for the government. If you work in government, or want to know more about project management in government, this is the presentation for you. We shall consider projects in the context of public organizations, how the nature of government affects projects, how the public agency perspective on projects differs from that of the private sector, and challenges faced in the public sector.

PDU Info: You will need to record and self-report your PDU's for this activity. Following the guidelines of the new CCR program and the PMI Talent Triangle®, the PDU's for this course can be applied as follows: 1.0 PDU - Business Acumen

Presenter: Nigel Blampied
Nigel Blampied’s research and teaching focuses on the management of public transportation agencies. He teaches in the Master of Transportation Management at San Jose State University, and he is a Research Associate at the Mineta Transportation Institute.

Nigel retired from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to pursue a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. His last position at Caltrans was Division Chief for Project Management and BATA Support in Oakland (District 4), where he directed an organization of 170 people who provided project management support, program management, and a variety of other services for a $1.5 Billion-per-year capital program. Prior to that, he worked for 15 years as a manager in the Caltrans headquarters in Sacramento, where he wrote policies and guidelines for State Highway project delivery; led the Statewide Project Management Improvement Team, a one hundred-member Statewide team, divided into several sub-teams which re-engineered each of the processes that Caltrans uses to manage State Highway projects; and both directed the documentation to support the annual $1 Billion capital outlay support budget and multi-year workload projections and defended that documentation.