Dennis Bolles
Michigan, USA
Dennis Bolles, PMP, President – DLB Associates, LLC, spent over forty-five years in multiple industries providing business and project management professional services. He assisted organizations, as a Subject Management Expert (SME) consultant, to achieve their business strategic objectives with the analysis of their business process improvement needs and development of business and project management capabilities.
He was a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 1985, received his PMP® certification in 1986 (#81), and was a founding member of the PMI Western Michigan Chapter, serving on its Board of Directors and in several positions since its 1993 inception.
Bolles performed speaking engagements and assisted Project/Program/Portfolio Office (PMO) start-up teams begin the planning and implementation processes; performed on-site organizational project management capability assessments; provided virtual and periodic on-site support for development of business and project management methodologies, policies, procedures, processes. systems, tools, and templates for organizational governance and corporate strategy; assisted in the implementation of a project business management methodology that integrates strategic planning, business objective development, portfolio management, program management, and project management processes to achieve strategic objectives and maximize operational efficiency enterprise-wide through the development and management of Project Management Offices.
Bolles served as a member of the PMI Virtual Community of Practice Advisory Group (VCAG) advising the Manager of Community Development on future program enhancements and initiatives that would increase the value of PMI’s Communities of Practice and further develop their leadership to mature their communities. He was the PMI Standards Project Manager who led the project core team to a successful completion and on-time delivery of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide Third Edition in 2004. He served on and contributed to multiple PMI Standards bodies over the past 20 years.
He was a published author of many project management articles, was a PMI Congress/Symposium/Chapter speaker, and author of Building Project Management Centers of Excellence, AMACOM, NY, 2002. He was the co-editor of The PMOSIG Program Management Office Handbook, JRoss, 2010. He was co-author with Darrel G. Hubbard of The Power of Enterprise-Wide Project Management: Introducing a Business Management Model Integrating and Harmonizing Operations Business Management and Project Management, hardcover – AMACOM, NY, 2007, paperback-revised – PBMconcepts, MI, 2014, and of A Compendium of PMO Case Studies: Reflecting Project Business Management Concepts, PBMconcepts, MI, 2012. Visit www.PBMconcepts.com for information about Dennis' books.
Dennis Bolles passed away in June 2017.
Updated July 2017
BOOKS
Building Project Management Centers of Excellence (AMACOM - 2002)
The Power of Enterprise-Wide Project Management: Introducing a Business Management Model Integrating and Harmonizing Operations Business Management and Project Management (AMACOM - 2007)
The PMOSIG Program Management Office Handbook (J. Ross - 2010)
The Power of Enterprise PMOs and Enterprise-Wide Project Management (PMBconcepts - 2010)
A Compendium of PMO Case Studies: Reflecting Project Business Management Concepts (PBMconcepts - 2012)