Barry Otterholt

Founder/Partner, Stouffer & Company, LLC

Barry Otterholt has been a project management specialist and coach for the past 30 years. He is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a Project Management Professional (PMP). He works with both public and private sector companies in the USA, Europe and Scandinavia. Mr. Otterholt was a Director with Microsoft, a senior consultant with Deloitte Consulting, and a COO with a nationwide consumer electronics enterprise. In 1988 he founded Public Knowledge, LLC to provide independent management and operational support to the public sector. More recently, he founded Stouffer & Company, LLC to provide as-needed project management services to fill an obvious skills gap in both private and public sectors. Mr. Otterholt is an adjunct professor teaching project management at Northwest University. His essays on project management have been published in PMI newsletters. His runs a blog, Project Management Essays, where he muses about various project management topics. Mr. Otterholt is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) and the Project Management Institute (PMI). He has a BA in Accounting and Computer Science and an MBA in Business Administration. He lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

About Barry Otterholt

Barry and his colleagues provide as-needed project management and assistance, ranging from project inception and setup, through the various phases of project execution, to project sunsetting. He is also known for his expertise in recovering troubled projects, and is an advocate of predictive project management methods. Barry runs a blog, Project Management Essays, where he muses about various project management topics. Specific services include: Situational assessments, feasibility studies including decision support financial modeling, requirements definition, community forums, strategic planning, organizational design and team formation, project planning, requirements definition, prototyping, technology surveys, hosted vendor demonstrations, alternatives analysis, prototyping, use case formation, various forms of quality assurance, testing, implementation planning and execution support, user-readiness analysis and testing and roll-out training. Funding documents, and Executive reporting and Steering Committee reporting. Exit verification and transition to operations.