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Rob Thomsett
Rob joined computing in 1968 and has been consulting and educating in the area of project management, teams and quality since 1974.
In 1981, Rob was contracted by YOURDON Inc. in New York to present seminars in the U.S. and U.K. based on his book People and Project Management published by YOURDON Press. With YOURDON, he consulted and taught in London, most major U.S. cities, Europe and Canada.
Rob presents workshops and consulting in the areas of senior management I.T. issues, project management and team leadership to most major Australian organisations. His workshops are also presented in Asia and Europe. His client-driven approach to project management, self-managing teams and Software Quality Function Deployment has been adopted by a wide spectrum of Australian organisations.
During his career, Rob has worked with Gerry Weinberg, Larry Constantine, Meiler Page-Jones and Ed Yourdon. These people have influenced much of Rob's work. Rob is also a member of the Editorial Board of the prestigious American Programmer with Ed Yourdon, Tom DeMarco, Bill Curtis, Capers Jones and other leading U.S. information system experts.
His second book "Third Wave Project Management : A Handbook for managing the Complex Information Systems for the 1990s" was published by Prentice Hall, New York in 1993. In 1994, he developed the Accreditation Programme for Project Management for the Australian Computer Society.
Rob's latest book " Radical Project Management", was published by Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle Creek, New Jersey, in 2004.
Rob has presented at many IT and business conferences and has been voted Speaker of the Conference in many of them both within Australia and internationally. Rob was honoured as the Australian Computer Society Lecturer of the Year in 1989/90. In 2001, he was recognized for his outstanding effort in education of business professionals by his peers and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.