Appointment of David Turner
Wednesday 01 June 2005
Appointment Part of Ongoing Investment and Expansion for The Market’s First and Only Online Solution For Complete PRINCE2™ Automation
Web-based project solutions specialist, Project Progress Ltd, today announced the appointment of David Turner as Head of Business Development. Turner will be responsible for both direct and indirect sales of the Projectprogress™ platform, the market’s first and only online solution for complete PRINCE2™ automation, offered as a utility service on a pay-as- you-go monthly basis.
Turner brings more than 30 years commercial sales experience in IT. Prior to joining Project Progress, he ran his own business development consultancy providing business improvement, business process management and marketing resource management solutions to the Finance, Utilities, Energy and Automotive and Healthcare markets. Turner was previously International Business Development Manger for Australia and Africa for e-Procurement specialist Infobank. He spent several years with BT as a Corporate Client Sales Manager and a further eleven years with Digital Equipment Corporation. He started in sales working for Olivetti in the 1970’s. Outside of IT, he began his career in the Army, serving nine years and a further three years reserve in the Parachute regiment attached to a Parachute Field Ambulance in the UK, Germany and Middle East, as well as the UN Forces in Cyprus.
Based at the company’s London offices, Turner will report directly to Adam Smith, CEO of Project Progress, and will focus on both sales of the Projectprogress platform, as well as building and growing regional sales teams throughout the UK selling to companies that have adopted the PRINCE2™ method.
PRINCE, which stands for Projects in Controlled Environments, is a project management method covering the organisation, management and control of projects. PRINCE was first developed by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, now part of the Office of Government Commerce, in 1989 as a UK Government standard for IT project management. Projectprogress delivers the PRINCE2™ method online.
Unlike project management tools, the Projectprogress platform provides an online collaborative platform to ensure full compliance of PRINCE2™. This includes a real time dashboard for the management of projects with multiple participants from multiple organisations on a permissions-based access with unprecedented levels of security. These elements are essential for ensuring simultaneous, comprehensive management of large complex projects adhered to the highest levels of compliance, auditing and security.
According to the Association of Project Managers, at the end of 2004, approximately 100,000 had taken the PRINCE 2 exam, of which 90,000 are based in the UK. This is a combined total of Practitioner and Foundation Levels. Furthermore, 20,000 people take PRINCE2™ exams pa, which averages around 700 people per week. The Association of Project Managers has 13,500 members and 240 corporate members with more than 40 Associated Training.