Bob Prieto
Jupiter, FL, USA


Chairman & CEO
Strategic Program Management LLC
Bob Prieto is a senior executive effective in shaping and executing business strategy and a recognized leader within the infrastructure, engineering and construction industries. Currently Bob heads his own management consulting practice, Strategic Program Management LLC, and previously served as a senior vice president of Fluor, one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world. He focuses on the development and delivery of large, complex projects worldwide and consults with owners across all market sectors in the development of programmatic delivery strategies. He is author of eight books including “Strategic Program Management”, “The Giga Factor: Program Management in the Engineering and Construction Industry” , “Application of Life Cycle Analysis in the Capital Assets Industry”, “Capital Efficiency: Pull All the Levers” and, most recently, “Theory of Management of Large Complex Projects” published by the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) as well as over 570 other papers and presentations.
Bob is a member of the ASCE Industry Leaders Council, National Academy of Construction, a Fellow of the Construction Management Association of America and several university departmental and campus advisory boards. Bob served until 2006 as a U.S. presidential appointee to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC), working with U.S. and Asia-Pacific business leaders to shape the framework for trade and economic growth and had previously served as both as Chairman of the Engineering and Construction Governors of the World Economic Forum and co-chair of the infrastructure task force formed after September 11th by the New York City Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he served as Chairman at Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB).
Bob can be contacted at rpstrategic@comcast.net.
Books
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Application of LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS in the Capital Assets Industry, (eBook) ISBN 978-1-938014-07-9 (Print) First Edition ii, September 2020
- Vision, Focus, Drive: Ingredients of Successful Professional Services Sales, Lulu, ISBN: ISBN 580-0-123828-42-1, July 2018
- Theory of Management of Large Complex Projects, Construction Management Associaton of America, ISBN: ISBN 580-0-111776-07-9, November 2015
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Resilience An Engineering & Construction Perspective, Lulu, ISBN: 978-1-329-19542-4; August 2015
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Resilience Managing the Risk of Natural Disaster; Lulu, ISBN: 978–1–329–19541–7; August 2015
- Capital Efficiency: Pull All the Levers; Construction Management Association of America (CMAA); 978-1-938014-08-6 (eBook); ISBN 978-1-938014-09-3 (Print); August 2014
- Application of Life Cycle Analysis in the Capital Assets Industry; Construction Management Association of America (CMAA); ISBN 978-1-938014-06-2 (eBook); ISBN 978-1-938014-07-9 (Print); June 2013
- The GIGA Factor; Program Management in the Engineering & Construction Industry; CMAA; ISBN 978-1-938014-99-4; 2011
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Topics in Strategic Program Management, ISBN: 978-0-557-52887-5; July 2010
- Strategic Program Management; published by the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA); ISBN 978-0-9815612-1-9; July 24, 2008
Articles and Papers
- Large Complex Project Success: Have we institutionalized the wrong lessons? - Featured Paper - Prieto - January 2021
- The Post-Mortem You Never Want: How to Determine Findings from a Troubled Project - Second Edition - Prieto - January 2021
- The Impact of Correlation on Risks in Programs and Projects - Featured Paper - Prieto - December 2020
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty - Featured Paper - Prieto - November 2020
- Application of Systems Lifecycle Processes to Large, Complex Engineering and Construction Programs - Featured Paper - Prieto - October 2020
- Engineering & Construction Project Startup - Featured Paper - Prieto - September 2020
- A Deeper Look at the Physics of Large Complex Projects: A Neo-classical Project Management Theory is Required - Commentary - Prieto - August 2020
- Black Elephants - Featured Paper - Prieto - August 2020
- Systems Nature of Large Complex Programs - Featured Paper - Prieto - August 2020
- Governance of Mega and Giga Programs - Featured Paper - Prieto - July 2020
- On the Subject of Black Elephants - Letter to the Editor - Prieto - July 2020
- Strengthening Outcomes Based Capital Project Delivery - Featured Paper - Prieto - June 2020
- National Academy of Construction Focuses on Generational Imperatives - Commentary - Prieto - May 2020
- Personal Perspective: Program Management and Events of Scale - Second Edition - Prieto - May 2020
- Verification and Validation of Project Management AI - Featured Paper - Prieto - November 2019
- The primacy of the Scope Baseline in Engineering & Construction Projects - Featured Paper - Prieto - October 2019
- Proper Reliance on Artificial Intelligence in Project Management - Commentary - Prieto - September 2019
- Artificial Intelligence Ethics in the Project Management and Civil Engineering Domains - Featured Paper - Prieto - August 2019
- Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Management of Large Complex Projects - Featured Paper - Prieto - June 2019
- Behavioral Change Metrics in an Engineering & Construction Environment - Featured Papers - Prieto - June 2018
- Complexity in Large Engineering and Construction Programs - Featured Papers - Prieto - November 2017
- Management of Assumption Infatuation in Large Complex Projects - Featured Papers - Prieto - April 2016
- Meeting Tomorrow’s Infrastructure Needs - Featured Papers - Prieto - September 2015
- Project Management Theory and the Management of Large Complex Projects - Featured Papers - Prieto - June 2015
- Physics of Projects - Featured Papers - Prieto - May 2015
- Opportunity Analysis under Strategic Program Management - Second Editions - Prieto - April 2015
- Is it time to rethink project management? - Commentaries - Prieto - March 2015
- Black Swan Risks - Second Editions - Prieto - March 2015
- Improbability of Large Project Success - Featured Papers - Prieto - February 2015
- Challenges of Dealing with Uncertainty - Featured Papers - Prieto - January 2015
- The Challenge of Infrastructure and Long Term Investment - Featured Papers - Prieto - December 2014
- Classes of Factors to be Considered in Infrastructure Investment Priority - Featured Papers - Prieto - October 2014
- The Gigaprogram Challenge - Featured Papers - Prieto - August 2014
- Beginnings, Middles and Ends: A Systematic Approach to Organizational Transformation - Featured Papers - Prieto - June 2014
- Capital Efficiency – Pull all the Levers - Featured Papers - Prieto - May 2014
- Addressing Project Capital Efficiency Through a Business Basis of Design - Featured Papers - Prieto - April 2014
- Perspective on the Cost of Delayed Decision Making in Large Project Execution - Featured Papers - Prieto - February 2014
- Owners Readiness Index - Featured Papers - Prieto - January 2014
- Project Selection in Large Engineering Construction Programs - Second Editions - Prieto - December 2013
- Utilization of Project Sentiment Analysis as a Project Performance Predictor - Featured Papers - Prieto - November 2013
- The Role of a Sound Asset Management System in Life Cycle Program Management - Featured Papers - Prieto - October 2013
- Intersection of Engineering, Construction and Logistics Post – Disaster - Featured Papers - Prieto - July 2013
- Project Categorization and Assessment Utilizing Multivariate Statistical Techniques to Facilitate Project Pattern Recognition, Categorization, Assessment and Pattern Migration Over Time - Featured Papers - Prieto - June 2013
- Comparison of Design Bid Build and Design Build Finance Operate Maintain Project Delivery - Featured Papers - Prieto - December 2012
- Candidate Strategies to Reduce Risks in Large Engineering & Construction Programs - Featured Papers - Prieto - September 2012
- Managing the Planning Fallacy in Large, Complex Infrastructure Programs - Featured Papers - Prieto - August 2013
- PMO & the Tollgate Process - Featured Papers - Prieto - May 2013
- Sustainability on Large, Complex Engineering & Construction Programs Utilizing a Program Management Approach - Second Editions - Prieto - April 2013
- A Look at Joint Ventures - Featured Papers - Prieto - March 2013
- Systemic Innovation and the Role of Program Management as an Enabler in the Engineering & Construction Industry - Second Editions - Prieto - March 2013
- Program Tetrahedron – Further Developing the Concept - Featured Papers - Prieto - February 2013
- The “Program Tetrahedron”: A Changed Baseline Control Basis under Strategic Program Management - Featured Papers - Prieto - November 2012
- Generalized Analysis of Value Behavior over Time as a Project Performance Predictor - Featured Papers - Prieto - October 2012
- Post Disaster Engineering & Construction Program and Project Management - Featured Paper - Prieto, Whitaker - September 2011
- Opportunity Analysis Under Strategic Program Management - Second Edition - Prieto - September 2010
- Strategic Program Management: Key to “giga” Program Delivery - Featured Paper - Prieto - July 2009
- Evolving Nature of Program Risks in the Engineering & Construction Industry - Featured Paper - Prieto - September 2008
- Phases of an Event of Scale from a Relief, Response and Reconstruct Perspective - Featured Paper - Prieto - July 2008
- Foundations, Frameworks & Lessons Learned in Program Management - Featured Paper - Prieto - May 2008