Who we are

We are a consulting and training company highly specialized in the area of Project Management. Being present in the international market for over fifteen years, we have been assuming a position of leadership and innovation in the implementation of Project Management practices according to the project management international standards. like the PMBOK® Guide from PMI.

Our main mission is to help organizations in aligning professionalized Project Management practice with their business strategy.

Equipped with a deep and exhaustive technical know-how acquired for over a decade of experience in the international market, we adopt a highly effective consulting approach to support your organization in the conception and design of methodologies properly adapted to the specifics of your organization’s reality and requirements.

We deliver high-quality Project Management training courses accredited by the most prestigious professional organizations in this area like the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE), and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), thereby providing your resources with both technical know-how and the working culture required for the success of professionalized Project Management.

We are team composed by human resources of the highest quality and caliber: within our team we have professionals and international experts who have been participating closely in the development of the most important knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge.

   Alexandre G. Rodrigues, Eng. Ph.D. Prof. PMP - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Executive Partner of PMO Projects Group, deliveres advanced project management training and consulting services to clients across Europe and other parts of the world. Throughout his career Alexandre has been delivering services for a wide range of international organizations, like Wolkswagen, Motorola, Microsoft, BHP Billiton in Australia and Africa, NATO in Brussels and Holland, Vodafone in Germany and BAe Systems and GEC-Marconi in the UK, VALE and Rio Tinto in Africa, Casas Bahia and Telefonica in Brazil.

He has participated in major international projects, mainly in the defense area where he also developed applied scientific research, particularly at British Aerospace (UK) having received, as a result of his work, the Mike Simpson Award (1996) granted by the prestigious British association Operational Research Society (ORS).  Also in the defense sector, he worked as a consultant and trainer for the NATO for over three years in an initiative aimed at improving the project management processes of NC3A  -- the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency.

He has been leading the implementation of Earned Value Management Systems for project and program control in multi-billion US dollars, specially in the mining sector. He is also a Senior Consultant with the Cutter Consortium (US), belonging to the Agile Project Management Practice.

He has over a decade of teaching experience, having lectured on Project Management and System Dynamics modelling related topics at several universities in Europe. He has supervised several Master and Doctoral students in the area of Project Management. Dr. Rodrigues worked for several years in Project Management for the military and consulting industries in the UK and the US.

He has several years of industry experience as a software engineer and publishes regularly articles in business and refereed scientific journals, having presented as a guest speaker at several international conferences. In 1996 he has co-organized a NATO Advanced Research Workshop dedicated to the theme "Managing and Modelling Complex Projects", which took place in Kiev (Ukraine) having gathered a wide range of international experts from the US, Europe and the Eastern block.

He was guest Editor of the April 2001 issue of the Cutter IT Journal (Chaired by Edward Yourdon), dedicated to the theme "Multicultural Project Management". He was also invited to publish an article on the 2003/04 Year Book of the Association for Project Management (UK), dedicated to the theme "Earned Value Management in the International Scene.

Alexandre Rodrigues holds a five-year "licenciate" degree in Systems and Informatics Engineering and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences specialized in Project Management and System Dynamics. Dr. Rodrigues was an international correspondent for the Project Management Forum (PMForum) in Portugal.

He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). He was also a Chartered Member of the Portuguese Association of Engineering. Dr. Rodrigues was founding president of the PMI Portugal Chapter and was a PMI Component Mentor for the EMEA region during 2005 to 2007. He was an active member of the PMI teams that developed the 3rd edition of the PMBOK Guide® and the 1st edition of the OPM3® model for organizational project management maturity assessment. He served for two consecutive years in the Congress Project Action Teams (CoPAT) for the EMEA PMI Global Congresses that took place in Prague (2004) and Edinburgh (2005).

In 2009, Alexandre was named Projec Management Ambassador in Portugal by the PMForum, having joined the international PM Ambassadors speakers’ bureau created by this international organization. He was invited in late 2009 by the PMI to join the core team that developed the second edition of the PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management.  He was also invited by Gower Publishers to write two books dedicated to the application of Earned Value Management to Projects, Programs and Portfolios.  In 2012 he was invited to become EVM Ambassador in Europe by the Earned Value Management Europe Association.