Who is Roland Ottmann, Ph.D.?

Who is Roland Ottmann, Ph.D.?

Roland Ottmann (Ph.D.) is deputy chairman of the board of IAPM and chairman of the IAPM advisory body "Traditional Project Management", author of numerous well-known publications and since 1992 CEO of Ottmann & Partner GmbH - one of the leading training companies for project management in Germany. He is seen as a proven expert in project management, has precide over the "GPM German Association for Project Management" for many years and initiated the German Project Excellence Award in 1996 and the International Project Management Award in 1998. He was centrally involved in th specification of the learning content for the IAPM certification courses and in the development of the IAPM certification system.

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For better readability, we usually only use the generic masculine form in our texts. Nevertheless, the expressions refer to members of all genders.