Over his 30-year career in project and program management, Jim Carilli has had the pleasure of working with teams in a variety of organizations, allowing him to hone his skills and develop fresh ideas about the way that organizations can run more efficiently and effectively, leading teams to create a productive environment with a positive work culture. Jim has led teams at Aetna, KPMG, Deloitte, Computer Sciences Corporation, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, among others. Currently, he is an associate partner/senior program manager at IBM.

His book, Program Management Redefined: Techniques to Improve Organizational Agility was inspired not only by his career in project and program management but also by his work outside the office in developing literature on management, including the research he performed for his doctoral dissertation, “The perceived effectiveness of the Scaled Agile Framework® in software development organizations: A mixed methods exploratory case study.”

Jim’s expertise in the management arena has been utilized in his role as a subject matter expert reviewer for two of PMI’s ANSI-accredited peer-reviewed foundational standards, including The Standard for Program Management, fourth edition, PMI (2017), and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), sixth edition (2017). Jim helped lead the development of the first edition of PMI’s Requirements Management: A Practice Guide (2016) as the vice chairperson and a contributing author. Earlier, in 2013, Jim served as a core team member and contributing author for a significant update to the third edition of The Standard for Program Management. He also served as a reviewer for The PMBOK Guide, fifth edition (2013), and The Standard for Portfolio Management, third edition, PMI (2012).

Jim has been a contributing author for multiple peer-reviewed publications, including those published by the Academy of Human Resource Development, Scrum Alliance, and Project Management Institute’s Annual Global Congress. As a guest lecturer at the American University, Kogod School of Management, Jim has addressed MBA students on program management, project management, and agile methods and practices.

A retired Army Medical Service Corps officer for the U.S. Army National Guard, Jim holds a Ph.D. in technology management from Indiana State University, an M.B.A. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a B.S. in management information systems from Central Connecticut State University.

Jim also holds a variety of certifications, including the Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), and Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute; Agile certifications, including Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from the Scrum Alliance; and Scaled Agilist (SA) and Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM) certifications from Scaled Agile, Inc. He also holds several technical certifications including the Information Technology Infrastructure Library Foundation certificate in Service Management, and several certifications and badges provided by Atlassian, AWS, PwC, and IBM.

Jim resides in Florida with his wife Debi and three dogs who focus on a different type of agility.