Meet Our Project Management Experts

Please read the biographies of the project management experts who contribute articles to Project Success Tips. Most are involved in their own full-time businesses or are known for their writing of project management books or blogs. They are indeed experts who understand what it takes to manage successful business projects.

Raymond Posch, Publisher, is an information technology project manager supporting strategic business initiatives at DaVita Inc. He is also publisher of Weekly PM Insights, which you know about from visiting this website. He has over 15 years experience as a project manager. In total, he is more than 25 years in IT management in a variety of roles and in companies across a variety of industries. During the dot-com boom, he managed a project management office (PMO) at TimeØ, a subsidiary of Perot Systems.

Ray is a certified project manager with both the CPM and PMP certifications. He has been active in a number of professional IT associations over his career, including the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Society for Information Management (SIM), the Colorado Open Systems Consortium (COSC), and others. With several of those organizations, he produced numerous speaker events, newsletters, and conferences. Additionally, he has written and published dozens of articles about such topics as: IT management, IT strategy, project management, relationship management, disaster recovery planning, enterprise systems, and other subjects.

Glen Alleman is Vice President, Program Planning and Controls for Lewis & Fowler, Denver Colorado. Glen defines, develops, deploys, and assures the benefits of Lewis & Fowler's defense and space program management and business process improvement offerings. These include Deliverables Based Planning(sm), an earned value and technical performance measure based program management method.

Glen's background includes a formal education in Systems Management,
experience in both commercial and aerospace & defense program
management, and software development of embedded control systems.

Glen also has a wide-ranging blog, called Herding Cats, on all things project management. [I'm sure every experienced project manager will appreciate that title! RP]

Elizabeth Harrin, BA, MA, MBCS, is the author of the book "Project Management in the Real World" and has a decade of experience in financial services projects. She is a PRINCE2 practitioner and trained in the Six Sigma process improvement methodology. Elizabeth has led a variety of IT and process improvement projects including e-commerce and communications developments. She is also experienced in managing business change.

Elizabeth is a member of the British Computer Society, spent eight years working in financial services (including two based in Paris, France), and now works in London in the healthcare industry. She writes the irreverent blog A Girl's Guide to Project Management, and is a columnist for pmtips.net. Her research interests are the roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders and their interactions across culturally diverse, distributed project teams.

Bob Hartman, known as "Agile Bob", is President of Agile For All, LLC. He brings over 30 years of experience developing software to his consulting engagements. His logic‐based approach to software development and quality was honed early in his career when he obtained both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Since that time he has broadened his industry knowledge by serving in almost every role in the software industry including developer, tester, documentation writer, trainer, product manager, project manager, business analyst, senior software engineer, development manager and executive. His experience includes 8 years running his own consulting firm and over 15 years of public corporate experience at the Vice President level.

He founded Agile For All to promote the use of agile development methods. Bob teaches all of the company's process courses as well as many of their role specific courses. He specializes in helping organizations of all sizes achieve successful agile transitions. He has been a speaker at numerous conferences, seminars and workshops where his engaging style, holistic view of development, and personal anecdotes are always well received by attendees. Anyone that is using agile, considering making a switch to agile, or just wants to learn more about agile, is encouraged to contact him via email bob.hartman@agileforall.com. You can also read his blog at www.agileforall.com/blog.

Lee Lambert, PMP, is founder and CEO of Lambert Consulting Group, Inc. During a distinguished corporate career, he worked 15 years as a project manager, later advancing to senior project management positions with General Electric, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and Battelle Memorial Institute.

He has long been considered one of the world's leading project management educators. His humorous, creative, and effective common-sense-based learning facilitation style has been praised by students throughout the world. To date, Lee has trained over 25,000 students in 21 countries on the value-added use of the project management process and its associated tools and techniques. His client list includes IBM, Prudential Insurance, Monsanto, Sprint, Motorola, and AT&T, to name a few.

Lee has a long involvement with the Project Management Institute and was on the team that formulated and implemented PMI's Project Management Professional (PMP) certification program, now recognized as the world's standard in the profession of project management. Lee is a PMI Fellow and serves on the review boards for PMNetwork and the Project Management Journal.

Mr. Lambert serves as one of the senior instructors for George Washington University's Masters Certificate in Project Management curriculum. His publications include 26 journal articles and two books: the most widely distributed text on the Earned Value Management System and The CommonSense Approach to Project Management: Using Earned Value to Balance the Triple Constraint. He regularly teaches workshops and gives technical presentations at the PMI Symposia, ProjectWorld Conference, and the American Association of Cost Engineers International Symposia.

Dr. Aaron J. Shenhar is a Professor of Project and Program Management at Rutgers Business School in the Supply Chain Management and Marketing Sciences Department. Previously he was the Institute Professor of Management and the founder of the Project Management Program at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Shenhar holds five academic degrees in engineering and management from Stanford University and the Technion in Israel. He is the recipient of the Engineering Manager of the Year Award of IEEE, and the first PMI Research Achievement Award. Dr. Shenhar accumulated over 20 years of technical and management experience as an executive in a leading high-tech organization in the defense industry in Israel. In his academic career, he published over 150 publications in innovation management, project management, and the management of professionals in technology-based organizations. He served as a consultant to leading high-technology organizations such as 3M, Honeywell, Dow Jones, Merck, NASA, BMI, Liz Claiborne, IAI, and the US Army. His recent book, Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation, by Aaron Shenhar and Dov Dvir, Harvard Business School Press, was selected among the top five best business books of 2007.  Dr. Shenhar is the CEO of the Technological Leadership Institute, a consulting and training company in technology and project leadership – http://www.tli-llc.com.