Chapter 8. Sweeping Away the Fog in the Private Sector

This chapter explores successful PPM implementations from client organizations that have swept away project fog. As you will see, none of these firms ever intended to support project management malpractice! But they were. All the companies featured in this chapter are actually quite good at executing single, simple projects from beginning to end; their challenges arise when they execute multiple projects simultaneously. As the number of projects they undertook grew, they ended up unable to balance demand for resources among competing priorities. This is a fundamental problem for many organizations I work with, and often makes the C-suite believe they are becoming less effective at project ...

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