A BUM’s Project Management Guidelines (Bottom Up Management)

Project management is a people business and those people who attain the highest levels of success are individuals, who recognize their team as the true and honest answer to successful projects.

Since Spiegle believes strongly in the "Involvement Gets Commitment" philosophy, this material is a guideline, not a policy manual. Project management is a process that works best when there is an organized and consistent way of conducting project business.

Project management has become more critical today than ever due to increasing costs, demands for more robust projects (technology changes daily) with fewer resources, and greater financial accountability, including more accurate cash flow control.

Gene is a retired Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Senior Program Manager at Rutgers Business School, Department of Supply Chain Management. He was the founder and President of the Cambridge Group, a Project Management consulting and organizational development firm located in Bedminster, New Jersey. He has an international reputation in project management, communications, and operations management. He has over fifty years of experience in management, project management, and both line and staff positions, enabling him to deliver practical, common sense, and theory-based perspectives.

Before his position as project manager for the United Nations Gene performed various positions, from President of a firm pioneering and specializing in automated systems to Vice-President of engineering of a Fortune 500 company. Gene holds degrees in psychology and engineering with an advanced degree in psychology. Mr. Spiegle has been an adjunct faculty in project management, engineering management, and communications at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Alabama, The Conference Board of New York, and Battelle Memorial Institute.

He is also the author and designer of the "Project Management Guidelines" process, a process currently utilized by many organizations to manage their projects. Gene's book "Taming a Silent Killer - - Your Stress" was released in May of 2002, followed by "Project Management – The Basics For Success," and co-authored (with William McLaury), "Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management, A practitioner's Perspective, published in 2016 by Kendall Hunt