Introduction: Into the Light
The world of project management has changed radically, totally, and irreversibly. It is not just that today's projects don't share even a family resemblance with yesterday's. It is that the world in which projects are managed has changed irrevocably. To explain what I mean, let's consider two brief examples of projects: a traditional project and what I call an eXtreme project.
Here is an example of a traditional project. As it happens, it was completed over the course of several months in 2002, but it would have looked pretty much the same in 1982 or 1972.
The food technology department of a consumer snack food company had just concluded its annual survey of its manufacturing plants. Based on the survey, senior management ...
Get eXtreme Project Management: Using Leadership, Principles, and Tools to Deliver Value in the Face of Volatility now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
