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OConnell/e/B000APF0KK/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1, including a book on project management for
children entitled, How To Put A Man On The Moon If You’re A Kid. His book, How to Run
Successful Projects – the Silver Bullet, has become both a bestseller and a classic and has
been constantly in print for over twenty years. His book on common sense entitled Simply
Brilliant – also a bestseller and now in its fourth edition – was runner-up in the W H Smith Book
Awards 2002. His books have been translated into twenty-eight languages.

The Sunday Business Post has described Fergus O’Connell www.fergusoconnell.com as
having ‘more strings to his bow than a Stradivarius’.Fergus is one of the world’s leading authorities on project management. His first project management company – ETP - was founded in 1991. Fergus’ disruptive, common sense project management method – The Ten Steps – has influenced a generation of project
managers. In 2003 this method was used to plan and execute the Special Olympics World
Games, the world’s biggest sporting event that year.

Fergus’ new company, Fast Projects (www.fastprojects.org) is again disrupting the project
management space by focusing on speeding up projects / shortening time to market – the only
company in the world to be doing so.

Fergus’ experience covers projects around the world - in Europe, North America, South America
and Asia. He has written on project management for many publications including The Wall
Street Journal. He has lectured at University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin
Institute of Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Bentley College, Boston University,
the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, the Irish Management Institute and on
television for the National Technological University. He holds two patents.