Pete Smith

I was born in Brixton, South London, in the 1950s. My family migrated towards prosperity through suburbs and class barriers in a sequence of moves that were in strict synchronicity with the release of each successive Rolling Stones album. The timing of the moves was not in any way a coincidence, though the exact causality remains, as they say, 'another story'.

By the time I was 18, my family had moved a distance of eight miles, two class barriers and eleven Stones Albums.

My first book, 'Project Management - All You Need Is Love' is about what happened next. It is in my completely unbiased opinion simply the best book on Project Management ever written. Encouragingly, almost all of the people who have written reviews on Amazon seem to agree.

It is NOT a theory book. It tells tales of triumphs and disasters from my travels around the world. It explains why I was heckled by 30,000 Arsenal supporters, what led to me being married in front of 10,000 London Wasps fans, and contains the famous Rule 6 which I can confidently assert has never appeared in any other Project Management book before.

'Crossing the Data Delta' is a more serious book with a significant theory element that focuses on the yawning chasm between the data organisations have, and the information they need. Since I was one of the leading authors, the book is not entire serious of course, but I hope strikes a balance between readability and some fairly substantial theory.