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Managing Projects as Investments
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Managing Projects as Investments

by Stephen A. Devaux
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
255 pages
7h 45m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Managing Projects as Investments
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Introduction
The glossary of the fth edition of the PMBOK
®
Guide denes a project as
“A temporary endeavor to create a unique product, service or outcome.”
The eld of project management is then based on guring out: what kind
of endeavor is it?
If we were to dene ice hockey to a visiting Martian as “an activity that
takes place on frozen water, with hooked sticks and a round disk of rubber,”
would we expect the Martian to understand what ice hockey really is? It
would be crucial to explain what kind of “activity,” that ice hockey is a game,
a contest, a team sport. Why does someone want to watch ice hockey? Why
does someone want to play ...
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ISBN: 9781482212709