A Project Christmas Carol: Ghosts of Project Managers Past, Present And Future

 Independent Project & Programme Management Mentor  MPhil in project management  Honorary Fellow, Association for Project Management  Honorary President ProgM, the Programme Management SIG  Subject Matter Expert: PMI Program Management Standard  Author of:  Project Management Demystified  Programme Management Demystified  Co-Author of:  One Project Too Many  Gower Handbook of Programme Management

 Let’s look back in time  Some great projects  Some great project managers  Some great stories  We have to choose just a few  Exclusively male!

Amunhotep

Emperor Qin Shih Huang

“Never my belly to a desk” Frank ‘Hurry up’ Crowe

Vice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett

Colonel (later Lord) Hunt

Polaris Construction & Heavy Engineering A Profession Program Management Cross sector

 Great Achievements  Great Heritage  Great Profession  Still People Getting Together to do Something  Tools, Techniques, Ideas, Structures  In all sectors, in all projects  Governance – Too Much?  What does the future hold?

Good Luck with your Projects