About the Authors

Randall L. Englund, MBA, BSEE, NPDP, CBM, is an author, speaker, trainer, professional facilitator, and founder, principal, and executive consultant for the Englund Project Management Consultancy (www.englundpmc.com). He also facilitates project management seminars for the Project Management Institute and conducts online advanced certificate courses at Northeastern University and for other professional associations. Randy draws upon experiences as a former senior project manager with the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) for twenty-two years. In a corporate project management initiative, he led the continuous improvement of project management across the company and documented best practices in Action-Sheets; in business units, he released high-technology products, developed a system life cycle, resolved architectural issues, researched effective practices for project success, and designed management processes, courses, and distance learning. Prior to working with HP, he served as a field service engineer and installation supervisor for GE Medical Systems.

Randy has an MBA degree in management from San Francisco State University and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a member of the Project Management Institute and the American Management Association and is a former board member for the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), where he is a certified New Product Development Professional (NPDP). Randy is a Certified Business Manager (CBM) with the Association for Professionals in Business Management.

With Dr. Robert J. Graham, he coauthored the books Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: Second Edition (2004), Third Edition (2019) and Creating the Project Office: A Manager’s Guide to Leading Organizational Change (2003). With Alfonso Bucero, he coauthored Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success: Second Edition (2015). The Complete Project Manager was first published in 2012, along with The Complete Project Manager’s Toolkit.

In his work with teams around the world, Randy provides management and leadership awareness at a systemic and organic level through multimedia presentations, workshops, conference papers, and writings. In addition to his own books and articles in magazines, he has contributed chapters in books such as the AMA Handbook of Project Management: Fifth Edition (2018), Advising Upwards (2011), and Organizational Project Management (2010). His interactive style encourages the exploration of action-oriented practices that are immediately applicable to optimizing results from project-based work. He received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award in 2014 for his long and varied body of work. PMI awarded Randy with the Eric Jenett Award of Excellence in 2018.

Alfonso Bucero, MSc, PMP (Project Management Professional), PMI-RMP, PFMP, is the founder and managing partner of BUCERO PM Consulting (www.abucero.com). He managed IIL Spain for almost two years, and he was a senior project manager at Hewlett-Packard Spain (Madrid office) for thirteen years.

Alfonso is a member of PMI, ALI (Asociación de Licenciados, Ingenieros y Doctores en Informática), AEIPRO (an IPMA member organization), and a DINTEL advisor. Alfonso was the founder, sponsor, and former president of the PMI Barcelona chapter, and he was an IPMA Assessor. He was a member of the Congress Project Action Team of PMI EMEA’s Congresses in Edinburgh, Madrid, and Budapest. He graduated from PMI’s Leadership Institute Master Class in 2007. He served as president of the PMI Madrid chapter and served as Component Mentor for Region 8 South. He received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award in 2010 for his long and varied body of work. In 2011, Alfonso received PMI’s Fellow Award, which recognizes and honors PMI members who have made sustained and significant contributions to PMI and the project management profession for more than a decade. It is PMI’s highest and most prestigious award presented to an individual. He also received the PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Award of Excellence in 2017.

Alfonso has a degree in computer science engineering from Universidad Politécnica (Madrid) and is finishing his PhD in project management at the ISM University in Lithuania. He has thirty-five years of practical experience, twenty-nine of them in project management worldwide. He has managed and consulted on projects in countries across Europe.

Since 1994, Alfonso has been a frequent speaker at international PMI Congresses and SeminarsWorld. He delivers PM training and consulting services in countries across the globe. As a “project management believer,” he asserts that passion, persistence, and patience are vital keys for project success.

Alfonso authored the book Dirección de Proyectos, Una Nueva Vision (2003). He contributed the chapter “Implementing the Project Office: Case Study” in the book Creating the Project Office (2003), authored by Randall L. Englund, Robert J. Graham, and Paul Dinsmore. He coauthored the chapter “From Commander to Sponsor: Building Executive Support for Project Success” in the book Advising Upwards (2011).

Alfonso coauthored with Randall L. Englund the book Project Sponsorship, Second Edition (2015) and authored Today Is a Good Day: Attitudes for Achieving Project Success (2010). Alfonso also published The Influential Project Manager (2014) by CRC Editors and Tomorrow Will Be Better (2017) through Motivational Press Editors. His latest book is Passion, Persistence, and Patience. He translated Project Sponsorship into Spanish—Patrocinio de Proyectos: Cómo alcanzar el compromiso de la Dirección para el éxito del Proyecto. These books are also available in Kindle editions.

He has contributed to professional magazines in the United States, Russia (SOVNET), India (ICFAI), Argentina, and Spain. Alfonso is a contributing editor of the “Crossing Borders” column in PM Network, published by the Project Management Institute. BUCERO PM Consulting is a Registered Education Provider (REP) with PMI.