The core project management capability within any enterprise resides at the individual project level, and its effectiveness is a combination of two major factors:
■ The project manager’s authority, individual capability, knowledge, and project team leadership; and
■ The “project controls” capability in defining, planning, estimating, and controlling the project objectives, scope, cost, time schedule, risks, labor, and other required resources.
These two factors depend on people who have different skills: first, those needed as a project manager, and second, the project controls skills.
Although many successful project and program managers began their project management careers in the project controls area, ...
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