Why this book about holistic (or total) project management?
Projects are executed by people and rather often on behalf of people (directly or indirectly), especially ICT projects.
A project manager not only needs “hard” skills such as planning a project and performing risk management but also needs a lot of “soft” skills and experience. In this context, “soft” skills mainly focus on how to deal with people.
In case you can’t deal with people, in a variety of circumstances, you can’t be a project manager in my view. Nowadays people working on projects could be in different physical places due to, for instance, outsourcing of ...
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