E.M. (Elli) Bennatan is principal consultant at APS and has many years of successful hands-on project management experience at major high-tech corporations world-wide. He is the author of On Time Within Budget: Software Project Management Practices and Techniques (published by Wiley), now in it's third edition, and the Jolt Award winning Catastrophe Disentanglement: Getting Software Projects Back on Track (Addison-Wesley, 2007). His books have been translated into several languages including French, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and are used as popular business desk references, and as text books at prominent universities and colleges worldwide.

Mr. Bennatan spent many years at Motorola as senior director, developing wireless access systems and leading multinational design centers. He led teams that developed and delivered large wireless telephony systems to Hungary, India, and China. He was also responsible for program management of Motorola's High Availability Systems Corporate-wide initiative.

Before Motorola, he spent several years developing defense and aerospace systems in the US and overseas. He led the team that architected and developed the software for Israel's first satellite.

A frequent lecturer and speaker on software project management, Mr. Bennatan's main areas of expertise include: software project management, software project catastrophe disentanglement and resolution, introduction of orderly process into ad-hoc software organizations, establishing software development organization structure, reengineering and simplification of existing software processes, and management of multi-national software development.

Mr. Bennatan is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and a member of the ACM. You can email him by accessing the "Request Information" option.

Selected Publications
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So What Is the State of Software Estimation?	Software Project Management: A Practitioner's Approach	On Time, Within Budget
What Is Happening to the Global Software Village?	Wireless Local Loop in Hungary: A Case Study	Management des projets informatiques
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