Jeff Ball is a Project Management specialist. Jeff lives in France and has joint UK/French nationality. He is a certified trainer, specialising in P3 (Project, Programme and Portfolio Management), PMOs and Agile. A strong track record: Jeff has delivered change initiatives in manufacturing, trading and banking companies As Project Manager, Jeff has delivered end-to-end IT projects in challenging multicultural environments. As Programme Manager, Jeff managed the worldwide Y2K initiative for NEC Computers. As PMO Manager, Jeff secured the success of a complex 10-country ERP programme with a 70-strong team, supported by a PMO of 10 people. An innovative and practical approach to methods... agility before Agile: Long before the birth of Agile, Jeff explored alternatives to waterfall methods. In the 80s, Jeff built a commodity trading system using rapid prototyping methods. In the mid-90s, he managed a global project, using time-boxes and MoSCoW prioritisation. Jeff has implemented gate-process methods for several major organisations. In 2004, he created an enterprise software package called TrioProject to support gate-process methods. The package was retired in 2013.