36. How to become a Project Manager

London, UK

Rayy is an Agile Learning specialist/coach, Founder & Lead Trainer of The Agile Squad. Rayy is a qualified Scrum Master (PSM III & SSM 5) and Project Manager (DSDM & AgPrm) specializing in Agile projects within the tech, healthcare, marine services, agri-tech and construction industries.

Martyn's relationship wtih APMG began over 20 years ago in 2000, and he and his team now have over 21 years of developing successful accredited training and certification products in the Project and Programme management marketplace across the world.

Although Martyn is not a trainer, he has helped thousands of individuals, their teams and organisations acquire new skills over his career.  He has a great appreciation of the value professional certifications bring, and how the training market has evolved over the years both in terms of content and in delivery.

Martyn's career highlights include:

• Winner UK Trade & Investment Northwest International Trade Award
• Scottish Power Small Business of the year
• Contribution to the Community Award - Cheshire

Martyn states his proudest business achievements included seeing an opportunity to purchase Prince2.com when no one else wanted it, being the first PRINCE2 accredited online product in the marketplace, and myself and my team going on to train at least 500,000 students through our PRINCE2 courses.  Throughout his professional career he has raised over £100k for charity.

Rajiv's relationship with APMG spans many years. He has more than 25 years experience managing diverse range of projects, programmes and change management in both private & public sectors in UK and abroad.

This experience has allowed him to develop a strong training and consulting business, acting as the lead trainer for Praxis Framework and Praxis Professional, Agile Project Management, Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner, Working in Small Projects (WISP), Change Management, Managing Successful Programmes and PRINCE2.

In addition, Rajiv's achievements include:

• Programme, project and change management Consultant for organisations in a range of industries
• High-risk Gateway Reviewer for Cabinet Office
• Author of several blogs, articles and videos in programme, project and change management
• National Field Hockey Umpire and National Coach
• Employee of the Year for LabVantage Solutions Limited

More recently, Rajiv successfully mentored Ricardo Santos and Rebecca Cummings, to become the first and second individuals to achieve their Chartered Project Manager Award from APM via Praxis Professional Route worldwide.

Rajiv's proudest achievement in his work was having the courage to set up Raj Khanna Associates Limited, an accredited training provider, and using the opportunity to mentor and coach several associate trainers. All of our trainers have gone on to become successful and provided excellent learning experiences for our participants.

Ron has over 4 decades of consulting experience in the areas of Change and Transformation. He has now hung up his “consulting boots” in favour of providing online training and trusted advice on all matters related to change and transformation.

A regular contributor on LinkedIn, Ron shares his experience in how best to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to make a real difference to your team and organisation.

In 2012, Ron was honoured to receive the Leader of Tomorrow Award from the World HRD Congress.

Jaap has been a Project Manager & consultant since 1986, and an APMG Accredited Trainer since 1996. He began working for Philips Telecom in 1997 as hardware and software engineer. His work has taken him all over Europe, South Africa, Afghanistan, Russia and the Caribbean in public and private organisations, from SMEs to multi-nationals.

Jaap has authored a wide variety of articles in Project Management journals, magazines and workshops delivered at IPMA events. His latest publication is the 'Working In Small Projects" (WISP) guide, a project management framework for small and non-complex projects.

One of Jaap's proudest achievements was launching WISP in conjunction with APMG-International; a framework for small and non-complex projects. WISP is implemented in public and private organisation plus Educational Institutes, secondary vocational education and higher.