CHAPTER 7

Planning When It Has to be Different

Projects have been around for a long time. You could argue that the Egyptian pyramid builders were involved in one. Before the 1950s, however, project management was not recognized as a distinct discipline. Between 1950 and the1980s project management came into its own. It, and particularly project planning, was seen as an exercise in a set of standard disciplined approaches, with good performance narrowly defined by compliance with a standard and a method. Since then things have changed.

Projects as Vehicles for Innovation

One of the most exciting changes is the growing involvement of project management with the delivery of innovation. It’s not that innovation within projects is new. Far from it! ...

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