Preface: Out of the Darkness
This is a book about a new way to understand and manage the kind of projects that the world is throwing at us today. It is the result of an eight-year journey through frustration, failure, and discovery. Until 1996, I had been preaching the gospel according to TPM (traditional project management) as I knew it, and it wasn't working. I had been so busy teaching and consulting that it had not dawned on me that the world of projects had changed and I hadn't kept up.
A New Breed of Project
At the time, I was running into more and more projects that didn't fit the mold I was brought up in. These new projects were chaotic. They featured high change, high speed, and high stress. They were expected to adjust continually to sudden ...
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