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Read 25 in-depth, candid interviews with notable project managers. Discover how project managers work, what they do, how they adapt and make decisions, how they inspire and motivate others, what career lessons and advice they can share, and how they landed their current jobs either as project managers or in more senior positions thanks to their success as project managers. Most of the project managers featured in this book-together with a selection of program managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and CEOs with project management backgrounds and responsibilities-work in the technology sector, but many work in other industries, including banking and financial services, consulting, aerospace, energy, and transportation.
Bruce Harpham, PMP-a project management career advisor and journalist-has chosen interviewees who range across the spectrum of company size and maturity and of individual career stages-from CEOs who were formerly project managers (such as Mavenlink´s Ray Grainger); to founders of project management consulting firms (such as Tramore´s Tom Atkins); to project managers at the world´s leading tech giants (such as IBM´s Bob Tarne, Google´s Michael Lubrano, Apple´s Seth J. Gillespie, and Cisco´s Hassan Osman), in the space industry (such as NASA´s David Woerner, Canadian Space Agency´s Isabelle Tremblay and EUMETSAT´s Hilary Wilson), in financial services (such as TD Bank´s Ilana Sprongl and Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System´s Annette Lyjak), and at transportation companies (such as Amtrak´s Sarina Arcari).

What You´ll Learn
Practicing project managers and engineers and graduates who aspire to become project managers will learn from the mouths of seasoned exponents at the top of their profession:

Break into project management, cultivate leadership skills, and influence higher-ups

Win assignments to manage career-advancing projects and ace deliveries

Avoid pitfalls and recover from operational failures and managerial mistakes

Manage the distractions and pressures of project work successfully while maintaining high morale

Discover the books, courses, and development strategies they used to make it to the top Who This Book Is For

Practicing project managers-including the half million PMI members required to pursue continuing education to maintain certification. The secondary readership is engineers, career-changers, and recent graduates who aspire to become project managers.

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Chapter 1 - Michael Lubrano: Senior Program Manager, Google

Chapter 2 - David Woerner: Chief Engineer, NASA

Chapter 3 - Tamsen Mitchell: Agile Coach, Salesforce

Chapter 4 - Isabelle Tremblay: Senior Systems Engineer, Canadian Space Agency

Chapter 5 - Andy Kaufman: President, Institute for Leadership and Excellence & Development, Inc.

Chapter 6 - Owen C. Gadeken: Professor, Defense Acquisition University

Chapter 7 - Shobha Subramonian: Principal Project Manager, SAS

Chapter 8 - Kristen Fleming: Vice President of Integrated Production, VaynerMedia

Chapter 9 - Hassan Osman: PMO Manager, Cisco

Chapter 10 - Ilana Sprongl: AVP, Enterprise Project Management Office, TD Bank Group

Chapter 11 - Jason Fried: President, Basecamp

Chapter 12 - Tom Atkins: President, Tramore Group

Chapter 13 - Cornelius Fichtner: President, OSP International LLC

Chapter 14 - Brennan Dunn: Founder, Double Your Freelancing

Chapter 15 - Tracy Ford: Director of APM Practice, General Electric

Chapter 16 - Annette Lyjak: Senior IT Manager - Technology Project Management Office, OMERS

Chapter 17 - Bob Tarne: Engagement Manager, IBM

Chapter 18 - Ray Grainger: CEO, Mavenlink

Chapter 19 - Seth Gillespie: Senior Project Manager, Apple

Chapter 20 - Frank Crescenzo: Manager, Brookhaven Site Office, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Chapter 21 - David Kollm: Enterprise Agile Coach, Accenture

Chapter 22 - Hilary Wilson: Project Manager, EUMETSAT

Chapter 23 - Sarina Arcari: Vice President of Enterprise Program Management, Amtrak

Chapter 24 - Mehmood Alam: Senior Project Engineer, Costain

Chapter 25 - Alicia Aitken: Chief Project Officer, Telstra

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