Your way into the Project Management World

Sam Barnes is a speaker, author and consultant on digital project management and team leadership, with experience of over 14 years in the digital industry. He started as a front-end developer at TBS. During that time, he was appointed Nokia’s key user for UK and Ireland, which led him to move into digital project management. Sam currently works as a Senior Development Manager at...

Mike Clayton is a project management expert, facilitator and advisor, with a background in integrating complex change in major national and multi-national organizations. He has worked as a Senior Manager at Deloitte for 8 years, where he was involved in the delivery of complex change for clients like British Gas, General Motors, Scottish Electricity Settlements and Railtrack. He is also the...

In this part of the interview we ask expert Antony della Porta how to best apply critical systems thinking (CST) in the recovery of projects, and if focusing on sustainability can help troubled projects. We also focus on what the impacts of delaying the declaration of project trouble are, whether that increases the risk of the project being canceled, if there is a way to determine that the...

PMTips: Antony, thank you for accepting to do a second interview with PMTips. Last time we talked about Sustainability in Project Management and this time we will focus our talk on the rescue and recovery of projects. Antony della Porta: Well, I really appreciate the invite actually, Ana, and thanks ever so much for taking interest in my passion, as it were, in change initiative delivery,...

Ali Shahsavari began his career as a Scheduling and Controls Manager in 2005 at MAPNA Group. In 2013, he became a Project Controls Manager at Kiewit – one of the largest construction and engineering organizations in North America. He is a certified PMP® (Project Management Professional) and a PSP (Planner Scheduler Professional). During his career, Ali had the chance to work on a...

Interview with Peter Taylor, who is a PMO and PM Strategy expert, a trainer, adviser and a Conference and Corporate speaker. He is also a best-selling author, who wrote a number of books on project leadership, PMO development, project marketing, project challenges and executive sponsorship. Peter has been described as perhaps the most entertaining and inspiring speaker in the project...

Carl Pritchard is a certified PMP® (Project Management Professional) and PMI-RMP® (Risk Management Professional). He is a recognized author, researcher and lecturer who has written five major project management texts, over one-hundred articles on project management topics, multiple white papers and several chapters in other authors’ publications. As an internationally...

Antony della Porta is an established professional in the delivery of strategic business change and an advisor for programme and project recovery with critical systems thinking approach. With an experience of over 30 years in the project management profession, he enables organizations realize their strategic business, environmental and sustainability goals, through the excellence of Portfolio,...

Teresa Lawrence has worked as a school superintendent, a project manager, a subject-matter expert in integrating creativity and Creative Problem Solving (CPS) into project management, and is a certified Project Management Professional. She provides training and facilitation in the application of creative problem solving, process evaluation and project management. Additionally, she offers...