Project Management: A Practical Guideline for Today´s Project Managers

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marcus Schulz is a project management trainer with heart and soul, and as an inde-pendent consultant and coach, he supports companies on their way into the agile world of project management. After graduating from the Duale Hochschule Stuttgart in 1992 with a degree in Business Admin-istration, he worked as a consultant and project manager in various companies in Germany and abroad. He founded the Mannheim Training Centre in 2013. Marcus Schulz is a certified senior project manager (PMP®, IPMA® Level B), scrum master, agile coach (IHK), certified business trainer (BDVT), and has been a project management trainer (IPMA® Level B Certified Senior Trainer) since 2009. He has been named a benchmark trainer by the German Association for Project Management (GPM) mul-tiple times (GPM). In addition to his work as a trainer and consultant, he has taught project management at various universities and volun-teers as a support instructor in the leadership and communication sec-tion of the Heidelberg chapter of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW). Tinka Meier gained her experience as a project manager after graduating in com-parative linguistics in 1997, initially in event management. She then spent over ten years working as a project and programme manager in international projects in supply chain management, with a focus on England, the USA, Singapore, China, Japan and India. She has been working as a freelance trainer, consultant and coach for international companies in both German and English since 2017. She also applies her passion for knowledge transfer and the personal development of her course participants in the social sector, for example in the training and further education of refugees and migrants. Tinka Meier is a certified senior project manager (IPMA® Level B), scrum master, certified intercultural trainer (dgikt) and systemic solu-tion-oriented coach (DGfC) and, since 2019, an accredited trainer for project management (IPMA® Level B Certified Senior Trainer) of the German Association for Project Management (GPM). She is also a lecturer in project management and intercultural communication at vari-ous German universities.