Jeff Ball

Jeff Ball is a project management specialist with a strong track record in delivery:

- As Project Manager, Jeff has delivered end-to-end IT projects in challenging multi-cultural environments

- As Programme Manager, Jeff managed the worldwide Y2K initiative for NEC Computers

- As PMO manager (office of 7 to 10 people), Jeff secured the success of a complex 2 year ERP programme (10 countries, 2 factories, corporate finance, sales offices...)

Long before the birth of Agile, Jeff Ball explored alternatives to waterfall methods

- In the 80’s, Jeff used rapid prototyping to develop a commodity trading system, used to trade multi-million dollar portfolios in two continents

- In the 90’s, Jeff used timeboxes and MoSCoW prioritisation to manage of the development of a global system, subsequently rolled out to US, Australia and Asia

In 2004, with the arrival of internet software (SAAS), Jeff launched a pioneering software package called TrioProject, to support gate-process methods. TrioProject was used in various sectors (healthcare, construction, chemicals). It was retired in 2013.

Jeff Ball has implemented gate-process methods for several major organisations, including practice-based support to the PM community (methods then training then coaching)

- for NEC Computers, Jeff set up a European IT PMO introducing basic stage gate PM methods

- for Fortis Bank, Jeff transformed a broken implementation of Prince2 and Clarity into a workable, optimised project management process

- for Plaine Commune (Paris area local government) , Jeff created an easy-to-use, well-integrated PM process, based on a highly simplified subset of Prince2, supported by right-sized PM software.

- for Philip Morris International in Lausanne, Jeff created methods for Project and Programme Management, based on the approach of his recent book, Lean3 Project Management

He is a certified trainer on Project Management (Prince2), MSP Programme Management, MoP Portfolio Management, PMOs (P3O) and Agile.

Jeff Ball lives in France and speaks fluent French. He has joint UK and French nationality.