We are a consulting and training company highly specialized in the area of Project Management. Being present in the international market since 2001, we have been assuming a position of leadership and innovation in the implementation of Project Management practices according to the most relevant project management international standards, like the TCM® from the AACE International, the ISO 21500, and the PMBOK® Guide from PMI, among others.

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

Equipped with a deep and exhaustive technical know-how acquired for over two decades 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 specific reality and requirements of your organization.

We deliver high-quality Project Management training courses accredited and aligned with the standards from 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 a successful adoption of professionalized Project Management.

We are a team composed by human resources of high 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.

 

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Executive Partner

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

• Degree in Systems Engineering and Ph.D. in Management Sciences (specialized in Project Management)
• Over 25 years of professional international experience as a consultant and trainer in Project Management and Cost Engineering
• Senior Consultant for the Cutter Consortium, Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence Practice (Boston, USA) (2001 – present)
• Lead Author / Core Team member for ISO21512 – “EVM Implementation Guide” (2019 – 2021)
• Founding President of AACE Portugal Section (2016 - Present)
• Named by AACE International as Liaison for the ISO21500 Technical Commission (TC258) (2017 – 2020)
• Member of the Advisory Panel of International Experts for the Government Accountability Office (GAO – USA) having reviewed the 2nd Ed of the Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide published in 2020 (2016 – 2019)
• Named by PMI to join the Core Team that developed the 1st Ed of The Standard for Earned Value Management/ANSI/PMI 19-006-2019 (2018 – 2020)
• Named by PMI to join the Core Team that developed the 2nd Ed. of the EVM Practice Standard (2009 – 2011)
• Coordinator of Portugal’s Technical Commission for the ISO Working Groups for Project Management (21500), EVM (21508), and WBS (21511) (2016- 2020)
• Founding President of the PMI Portugal Chapter and Mentor of PMI Chapters in EMEA Region (2005 – 2007)
• Founding Vice-President of Operations of the College of Performance Management (CPM) of Colombia (2017)
• Member of the PMI teams at large that developed the PMBOK® Guide (3rd Ed.) and OPM3® (1st Ed.)
• PM Forum (USA) Correspondent for Portugal (2007 – 2011)
• Visiting lecturer in several Universities in Europe, United Kingdom, Australia, South America and Africa
• Supervisor and member of jury for several Master and Doctorate research studies in Project Management
• Named PM Ambassador in Portugal by the PM Forum International (USA) (2009 – 2011)
• Named EVM Ambassador in Europe by the Earned Value Management Europe Association (since 2012)

 

Throughout his career Dr. Rodrigues has been delivering services for a wide range of international organizations, like Volkswagen, Motorola, Microsoft, and Google in Europe, BHP and South32 in Australia and Africa, NATO in Brussels and Holland, Vodafone and Boehringer-Ingelheim in Germany, BAe Systems in the UK, VALE and Rio Tinto in Africa, ROSATOM in Russia, Casas Bahia and Telefonica in Brazil.

He has participated in major international projects, including 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/NCIA, then NATO's Consultation, Command and Control Agency.

He has been leading the implementation of Earned Value Management Systems for project and program control, especially in the mining, oil and gas, construction, and infra-structures sectors. 

He is a Senior Consultant with the Cutter Consortium (US), belonging to the Agile Project Management Practice.

He has extensive teaching experience in the academia, having lectured Project Management and System Dynamics modelling related topics at several universities in Europe, Australia, South America, and Africa.  He has supervised several Master and Doctoral research works in the area of Project Management.

He has several years of industry experience as a software engineer and published 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 then Eastern bloc.

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.

He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and is 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).

Dr. Rodrigues was an international correspondent for the Project Management Forum (PMForum) in Portugal.  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, having again been invited in 2018 to join the team that developed the upgrade of this standard to the ANSI/PMI 19-006-2019 The Standard For Earned Value Management. He was a lead author for the ISO21512 – EVM Implementation Guide standard currently under development 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.

Alexandre Rodrigues holds a five-year "licenciate" degree in Systems and Informatics Engineering awarded by the University of Minho in Portugal, and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences specialized in Project Management and System Dynamics awarded by the Strathclyde Business School at the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom.