About the Authors:


Alan Harpham, BSc MBA FAPM FCMC
Author

Alan Harpham describes himself as being on his 4th career, as what Charles Handy calls ‘a portfolio manager’.  Alan is an independent management consultant; focused on business start-ups, programme management, project management and executive coaching – individuals and teams.  Alan is the Chairman of the APM Group, a global Accreditation, Registration and Examination Certification Body for key elements of Best Practice in programme and project management (see www.apmgroup.co.uk).  Key elements of Best Practice include the UK Government’s PRINCE2TM, Managing Successful Programmes and Management of Risk (PPM).  APM Group started life as the trading arm of the Association for project management in the UK, but became wholly independent in 2000.    He is also a non-executive director with Subject Matters, a consultancy specializing in organizing business-to-business events, conferences and exhibitions (see www.subjectmatters.co.uk).  He is also helping his son with the start-up a new e-commerce business in the sport and leisure sector – The Sports and Leisure Community Limited (see www.majorsporty.com).  He was a founding director of P5 – the Power of Projects, a consultancy specialising in the application of project and programme management in owner/client organisations (see www.p5.co.uk).  Prior to this he was Group Marketing Director for The Nichols Group and before that Managing Director of Nichols Associates – a leading UK consultancy specialising in PPM.  Before that he was an early director of Cranfield University’s School of Management’s MSc in project management (one of the very first such programmes in the world 1982-86.)  He started his career as a civil engineer with John Laing and held various roles there including section engineer through to International M & E Contracts Manager.  He is on the Jury of the IPMA’s International Project Management Award.  He has a big interest in spirituality at work and is a member of www.spiritatwork.org, on the selection committee of the International Spirit at Work Awards, a trustee of MODEM, (see www.modem.uk.com), a former steward of www.spiritinbusiness.org, and a member of CABE.  He is also a member of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants.   His other interests include hill walking and watching rugby union.

About the Authors:


Debra Lavell

Debra Lavell works as a retrospectives expert in the Corporate Platform Office at Intel Corporation, and has delivered over 80 program and milestone retrospectives over the past 5 years.  She also designed the “Facilitating Effective Retrospectives” training course which she has delivered to over 50 program and project teams.  In addition to her work in retrospectives, Debra is also a recognized expert in requirements engineering, is a member of the Rose City Software Process Improvement Network Steering Committee, and president of the annual Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. 

Russ Martinelli

Russ Martinelli is the Manager of Program Management Methods within the Corporate Platform Office at Intel Corporation, where he focuses on the implementation of program management practices across Intel.  Additionally, Russ is the chairman of Intel’s global Program Management Community of Practice, an adjunct professor at the University of Phoenix, and co-founder of the Program Management Academy.  Russ has held a variety of positions at Intel and Lockheed Martin in the areas of systems engineering, general management, operations management, and project and program management.  Russ has recently published the book titled “Program Management for Improved Business Results” (ISBN: 0-471-78354-4).  Contact Russ at:  russ.martinelli@programmanagement-academy.com