Theofanis Giotis has 32 years of professional experience in Project, Program and Portfolio Management, Economics, Management and ICT. He is an Agile Coach, Thought Leader, Chief Storyteller, Instructor, Consultant, Author, Trainer, Entrepreneur and senior Project & Program Manager.
Since 1987 he has managed hundreds of projects in the EMEA region using plan driven (waterfall) and change driven (agile) approaches. He has envisioned, planned, designed, developed & implemented hundreds of projects with 22.000+ consulting and training hours. Since 1992, he was heavily involved in Project and Program Management as part of a core team to setup the first Program Management Office (PMO) in Greece, and one of the first PMOs worldwide, for managing a €283,400,000 budget program with 16 projects. He is using Agile approaches since 1994.
As an entrepreneur, consultant, international speaker and trainer, Theofanis has worked in different cultural environments in EMEA region. He is CEO of ITEC-CONSULTING (1988-2017) and CEO of 12PM Consulting (2017-now), first President of The Greek Chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI-GREECE) (2005-2014), Vice President PMI-GREECE (2017-2020), President of PMI-GREECE (2020-2021) and Leader Scrum Alliance, Greek User Group since 2014. He is an Adjunct Professor teaching Agile, Project, Program and Portfolio Management at postgraduate level at four universities.
Theofanis holds a BA in Economics from University of Athens, Greece, a MSc in Management (O.R.) from Lancaster University, UK and he is a PhD candidate in Project Management at University of Piraeus. Also he holds a Computer Programming/Systems Analysis degree from ACE College, Greece. He was certified as a PMP in 2004 and graduated from PMI Leadership Institute Master Class (LIMC) (2006-2007).
He has given 150+ presentations worldwide in ICT & Project Management and has passed more than 80 professional certifications. Since Sept. 2005, he has published more than 150 articles for Management, Agile and Project Management.
His research work focuses on research areas such as: project management, program management, portfolio management, stakeholders management, Agile Project Management, Agile Transformations, Business Analysis and IT Operations Management (ITIL).
Also Theofanis represents Greek Standardization Organization (ELOT/ΕΛΟΤ is an ISO member) at ISO TC 258 for Project, Program and Portfolio Management Standard and has helped in the development of 17+ international Project/Program/Portfolio management standards for ISO, ANSI and ELOT.
Theofanis has the following professional qualifications in project management:
PMI (PMP®, ACP®, PBA®, DSAM®, DASSM®, DAVSC®), CTT+, PRINCE2 Practitioner and Trainer, ITIL v3 and V4, PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner and Trainer, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), PRINCE2 AgileShift® Trainer, PSM I