Alfonso Bucero, MSc, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI Fellow, is the founder and managing partner of BUCERO PM Consulting (www.abucero.com). He managed IIL Spain for almost two years, and he was a senior project manager at Hewlett-Packard Spain (Madrid Office) for more than thirteen years.

Bucero is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), ALI (Asociación de Licenciados, Ingenieros y Doctores en Informática) and AEIPRO (IPMA member). Bucero was the founder, sponsor, and president of PMI Barcelona, Spain Chapter, and he is an IPMA Assessor. He was a member of the Congress Project Action Team of PMI EMEA's Congresses in Edinburgh (2005), Madrid (2006), and Budapest (2007). He graduated from PMI's Leadership Institute Master Class 2007 in Atlanta at the PMI NA Global Congress. He was president of the PMI Madrid Spain Chapter for two years and has served as Component Mentor for Region 8 Southwest since 2011. He received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award in 2010 for his long and varied body of work, and the PMI Fellow Award in 2011 from the PMI for his sustained contribution to the development of the profession internationally.

Bucero has a computer science engineering degree from Universidad Politecnica (Madrid), and is a PhD candidate in project management at the University of Mondragon in Spain. He has 31 years of practical experience and 25 of them in project management worldwide. He has managed and consulted on projects in various countries across Europe.

Since 1992, Bucero has been a frequent speaker at international PMI Congresses, IPMA Congresses, and PMI SeminarsWorld. He has been a keynote speaker in several congresses worldwide. He delivers project management training and consulting services in several countries worldwide. As a "project management believer," he defends passion, persistence, and patience as vital keys for project success.

Bucero has been a professor for MEDIP (Master in Construction and Project Management) at the Universidad Politecnica since 2004, and he is a professor and executive consultant for the Marketing & Finance Business School in Bilbao (Spain).

He authored the book Dirección de Proyectos, Una Nueva Vision published by LITO GRAPO Editors (2003). He contributed a chapter to Creating the Project Office published by Jossey-Bass (2004), authored by Randall L. Englund, Robert J. Graham, and Paul Dinsmore. Bucero coauthored with Randall L. Englund the book Project Sponsorship published by Jossey-Bass (2006). He authored the book Today Is a Good Day: Attitudes for Achieving Project Success, published by Multimedia Publishing in Canada (2010). Bucero contributed the chapter "From Commander to Sponsor: Building Executive Support for Project Success" in the book Advising Upwards (2011) authored by Lynda Bourne in Australia. He also contributed a chapter to the book Project Management circa 2025 written by Dr. David I. Cleland and Dr. Bopaya Bidanda in 2010.

Bucero also coauthored with Randall L. Englund the books The Complete Project Manager and The Complete Project Manager Toolkit published by Management Concepts on March 2012, and published a new version from his book Dirección de Proyectos, Una Nueva Vision, and the book Hoy es un buen día (Spanish translation of Today Is a Good Day). He has also contributed to professional magazines in the United States, Russia (SOVNET), India (ICFAI), Argentina, and Spain. Bucero was a contributing editor for six years for the "Crossing Borders" column of PM Network magazine, published by the PMI. He is a monthly contributor for Project Connections Blog, and published several project management articles in other magazines.