Michael Hannan
Michael Hannan, PMP, TOC Jonah, XSCALE Coach
Michael Hannan is a leading-edge thinker and renegade who believes that we all must do more to unleash our boundless potential and solve increasingly complex global issues. He envisions a community-centric, expert-guided “power-to-the-edge” solution to most of these issues.
Mike is Founder & Principal Consultant at Fortezza Consulting, whose mission is to enable dramatically higher levels of value delivery in project/product-centric environments. He is a frequent speaker at annual corporate conferences, PMI events, and in the Agile & DevOps communities, with extensive experience coaching & training portfolio executives, PMO leaders, PMs and task leads. He is also a leading innovator of disciplined ways to integrate Agile, Lean, DevOps, Critical Chain, XSCALE, and other techniques to drive dramatic breakthroughs in the performance of project/product portfolios, and is lead author of the best-selling book, The CIO’s Guide to Breakthrough Project Portfolio Performance.
Mike serves on the board of Project Management for Change, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the realization of positive social outcomes. He is also Adjunct Professor for the University of Southern California’s graduate-level program in Project Management. On the personal side, Mike is a happily married father of 3 adult sons, a world-record-setting track & field athlete, and an amateur oenophile.