Authors

Alfonso Bucero

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www.abucero.com

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About the Author

Alfonso Bucero , DEA, PMP, is now an independent project management consultant and speaker. He is founder, partner, and director of Bucero PM Consulting in Spain. He was managing director at IIL Spain for two and a half years in Madrid while also serving as a project management consultant and trainer. His background was that of a Project Manager at Hewlett-Packard Consulting, where he developed and managed the PMO implementation whose purpose was the continuous improvement of project management discipline across the organization. During his 13 years at HP, he managed various customer, infrastructure, development, and change management projects. He spent his last two years at HP selling and implementing the project office and convincing upper managers about the advantages of project sponsorship.

At IIL, Bucero consulted and trained executives, explaining the need for and advantages of good project sponsorship. He has a B.S. in computer science engineering. He is an international project management competency assessor for the International Project Management Association. He has a D.E.P. (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados). He is preparing his thesis about the project management behavior implementing a project office. He was former president of the Project Management Institute's Barcelona Chapter. Currently, he is the president of the PMI Madrid Chapter, and is a frequent contributor to international project management conferences and project office workshops. He is the contributing editor of the "Crossing Borders" column in PMI's PM Network magazine. He is the author of the Spanish book Project Management: A New Vision, contributed a chapter to Englund, Graham, and Dinsmore's Creating the Project Office, and he coauthored with Randall L. Englund the book Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success.

Bucero brings a practical slant to his writing -- the point of view of a professional who has been through it all. He is a practitioner of project management who demonstrates his passion, persistence, and patience for implementing project management in organizations. He brings forth lessons that come from moving between observation, reflection and action. He put effort into thinking about attitude in project management, leveraging best practices or inventing new ones, applying or experimenting in fields of practice, observing and documenting the results, making modifications, and then doing it all again.