Scrum Master from Leeds Building Society, with experience across multiple industries including utilities, broadcasting and the financial sector but all with a common purpose to deliver value, reduce waste and develop high performing teams.

Mark Stringer has worked in software development for 30 years—as a programmer, researcher, and, for the past 15 years, a project manager. He’s worked with IBM, Xerox, and Cambridge University. He wrote his book Delivering the Impossible after realizing that many project management books pretend that success is inevitable, if only you follow the right method. In his book, he explains why how we look at projects leads to so many of them becoming undeliverable and impossible. He also explains what we can do to give projects the best chance of success, and even how we can avoid feeling bad while we’re doing it. Recently, he also wrote and performed possibly the only fringe show ever about project management. He took his one-man show to the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. He holds an honours degree in philosophy from St Andrews University and lives in London and Thessaloniki, Greece, with his wife. His hobbies include learning Greek, writing jokes, and searching for his slippers.