There are four fields of TA, organizational, educational, counselling and psychotherapy. The first three come under the umbrella term “Developmental TA”.

Whilst Working Together, has a theoretical underpinning it also provides vignettes and exercises so that the reader can apply the theory to their own situations.

Happy reading, and even happier application! )

Darren Dalcher

Professor Darren Dalcher is founder and Director of the National Centre for Project Management, a Professor of Software Project Management at Middlesex University and Visiting Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iceland. Professor Dalcher has been named by the Association for Project Management as one of the top ten “movers and shapers” in project management. He has also been voted Project Magazine’s Academic of the Year for his contribution in “integrating and weaving academic work with practice”.

Professor Dalcher is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and the British Computer Society, and a Member of the Project Management Institute, the Academy of Management, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a Chartered IT Practitioner. He is a member of the PMI Advisory Board responsible for the prestigious David I. Cleland project management award, and of the APM Professional Development Board.

Jonathan Norman

Jonathan Norman is Publisher at Gower Publishing Company where his responsibilities include managing and commissioning for the Gower project and programme management books list. The list is made up of over 80 titles covering every aspect of project management and including some of the recognised definitive texts for both practitioners and students such as Dennis Lock’s Project Management, now in its ninth edition, Rodney Turner’s Gower Handbook of Project Management in its fourth edition and the two project management series: Advances in Project Management and Fundamentals of Project Management.

Mark Price Perry

In 1999, Mr Perry founded BOT International, a boutique firm that specializes in PMO Setup. As a servant-leader in the PMO domain, Mr Perry is the host of the “The PMO Podcast,” a podcast for PMOs off all shapes and sizes with over 200 PMO podcast episodes to date, a regular contributor to gantthead.com, and the columnist for the BOT International PMO “Tips of the Week,” a ten year running column that provides weekly management tips for PMOs. Mr Perry is also the author of the books, Business Driven PMO Setup; Practical Insights, Techniques, and Case Examples for Ensuring Success, 500 pages, 2009, and Business Driven Project Portfolio Management; Conquering the Top 10 Risks that Threaten Success, 300 pages, 2011, both published by J. Ross Publishing.

James Simons

James Simons is Editor of Project magazine – the Association for Project Management (APM) title for professional project managers. He is a trained journalist with over 10 years’ experience in B2B publishing and Internal Communications. Since taking on the Editor’s role, James has overseen a major redesign of Project and led its expansion into digital platforms – including the launch of a fortnightly e-bulletin, eProject. The new-look Project now boasts an average net circulation of 19,713 and is recognised as the UK’s best read project management magazine. As a respected voice on PM matters, James is a regular contributor to the magazine and APM website, writing articles and blogs on a range of industry topics. He is also an active member of the online project management community with over 200 followers on Twitter.

Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who, over the last 26 years, has achieved notable success in project management. His background is in project management across three major business areas using MRP/ERP systems with various software houses culminating in his current role with Infor, and including Business Intelligence (BI) with Cognos, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Siemens. He has spent the last seven years leading PMOs and developing project managers and is now focusing on project-based services development with Infor.

Peter is an accomplished communicator and leader; he is a professional speaker as well as the author of The Lazy Project Manager, The Lazy Winner, Leading Successful PMOs and (forthcoming) Project Branding.

Chris Walters

Chris Walters, Chairman of the APM special interest group on PMOs: PMOSIG, is currently working for Vodafone, forming and delivering a programme of capability improvement for project delivery in the Technology division. Having moved into PMO management 6 years ago, Chris got involved with PMOSIG and has been chairing the committee for the last 5 years, driving the organisation, and working with volunteer committee members to design and deliver two conferences per year.

Prior to this, Chris worked as a project manager, primarily of IT and telecommunications projects, with highlights including replacing the IT infrastructure for a power station without missing a single second of power generation, managing the technical integration of a new cable TV operator to deliver a working TV service, internet infrastructure and back office systems in record time, designing and deploying internal project management information systems before EPM became popular, and rescuing a pan-European ERP software system implementation at a pig breeding company.

Kind regards
Sue