Project Managers at Work

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 booktogether with a selection of program managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and CEOs with project management backgrounds and responsibilitieswork in the technology sector, but many work in other industries, including banking and financial services, consulting, aerospace, energy, and transportation. Bruce Harpham, PMPa project management career advisor and journalisthas chosen interviewees who range across the spectrum of company size and maturity and of individual career stagesfrom CEOs who were formerly project managers (such asMavenlinks Ray Grainger); to founders of project management consulting firms (such as Tramores Tom Atkins); to project managers at the worlds leading tech giants (such as IBMs Bob Tarne, Googles Michael Lubrano, Apples Seth J. Gillespie, and Ciscos Hassan Osman), in the space industry (such as NASAs David Woerner, Canadian Space Agencys Isabelle Tremblay and EUMETSATs Hilary Wilson), in financial services (such as TD Banks Ilana Sprongl and Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement Systems Annette Lyjak), and at transportation companies (such as Amtraks 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 managersincluding 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.