Delivering the Impossible: Successful Ways of Seeing Software Project Management

Mark Stringer has worked in the software development industry for 30 years. He's been a programmer, applications researcher and, for the last 15 years, a project manager. He's worked with organizations such as IBM, Xerox and Cambridge University.

Mark wrote this book because of a realization. He seemed to be repeatedly reading the same book about project management, but with different titles. This book claimed that, if only you follow some prescribed methodology, everything would be lovely. His experience was that, no matter what methodology you used, things very often weren't lovely.

In recent years, as well as writing this book, he has written and performed a one-man show - "Delivering the Impossible," at the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. This is possibly the only fringe show on the subject of project management - ever! He has an honors degree in philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.