About the Authors

Unlike most books, this one was not written by an individual or a group of two or three experts. Instead, it was written by a large and diverse group of people from QuantumPM, LLC (QPM). The authors are undeniable experts; they have used this software within our organization and have helped hundreds of customers install and configure the software for their organizations. In addition, the QPM team works closely with the Microsoft team to support the rollout of the product and to provide input for future versions.

QuantumPM, LLC is a consulting firm specializing in strategic and tactical project management services. The company's focus is improvement of organizational bottom lines through effective project and portfolio management, targeting a balance of philosophy and tools. To this end, QuantumPM works closely with Microsoft, Inc. as a Premier Project Partner and with the Project Management Institute as a Registered Education Provider and active participant in standards development and various local chapter activities. These partnerships allow QuantumPM to provide state-of-the-art products and services to our customers.

The authors of the book include people from a variety of roles within the organization. They brought their unique perspectives to this effort and hope to have provided you with a great balance of technical and operational material based on many years of practical application of the product. Following are the QuantumPM team members who worked many long hours to develop the contents of this book:

• Our project manager and miracle worker who managed to get us all to deliver our work as promised: Genie Peshkova.

• Members of our sales and marketing teams who help our customers understand the capabilities of the software as a part of a complete solution for their needs: Greg Bailey, Karla Ferguson, Jim Patterson, and Crystal Trevino.

• Members of our operations staff who manage our internal administrative projects and keep things running smoothly: Laurie Dawkins and Jennifer Rollins.

• Members of our technical staff who help customers with system architecture, scalability and capacity planning, and other system administration decisions. They also keep this software running smoothly in our customer-hosted environment as well as our own internal environment: Tony Blackburn and Katie Stewart.

• Members of our project management consulting team who work together to provide solutions for our customers: Claudia Baca, Boris Bazant, Robert Bowman, Steve Drevon, Cristian Filip, Scott Footlik, Herman Gaines, Patti Jansen, Brian Musgrave, and Russ Young.

• Members of our development team who create custom solutions to enhance the capabilities of Microsoft's Enterprise Project Management software: Danny Allen, Adam Berle, Bruce Johnson, and Ethan Young.

• The project sponsors and founders of QPM: Kris Athey and Rose Blackburn.