CHAPTER EIGHT

Achieving Results: Principles for Success as a Project Manager

images One common problem project professionals face is getting so caught up in the helter-skelter of putting out fires and focusing on minutiae that they lose the big-picture perspective. When things are popping all around them, it is difficult for them to step back and view their projects from a distance.

In this last chapter, we do precisely that: stand back and take a big-picture view of the project management process as it pertains to information age projects. What are the elements of good project management—the most rudimentary principles—that we should keep in mind to ...

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