July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 37m
English
book
Executive's Guide to Project Management: Organizational Processes and Practices for Supporting Complex Projects
by Robert K. Wysocki
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The Project Landscape (Chapter 1)
It is not sufficient to simply say that complex projects are filled with uncertainty, risk, and unexpected change. That does not give a senior manager anything concrete to help them support such projects. In order to act intelligently senior managers need some structure that defines complex projects and stipulates strategies for dealing with different types of complex projects. The purpose of Chapter 1 is to define a simple but intuitive project classification scheme that can be used as an infrastructure to organize and discuss senior manager support strategies.