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CHAPTER 16

HOW TO MAKE PROJECT MANAGEMENT WORKIN YOUR COMPANY

It is one thing to know how to manage projects. It is another to get people to actually do the work of the project. Running by the seat of your pants seems a lot easier than doing all the planning, scheduling, and monitoring that have been presented in this book. Even when people invest three or four days in project management seminars, you find that they soon forget what they have been taught and go back to their old ways.

I have struggled with this problem for 20 years and finally have some answers. Here are suggestions on how to make the principles of project management work in ...

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