Managing Projects in Organizations: How to Make the Best Use of Time, Techniques, and People, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER FOUR

Making Certain the Project Is Based on a Clear Need

This book looks at project management from the perspective of the pitfalls that project professionals are likely to encounter. The purpose of focusing on pitfalls is not to accentuate the negative and thereby discourage people from assuming project management responsibilities, but to introduce a strong dose of reality. Although the road traveled by project professionals is littered with potholes and debris, this does not mean that the road is impassable. Many of the problems that project professionals encounter are created by the very nature of the project management process and ...