On Time and On Budget: Project Management Collection (4 Books)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

There are never too many people to thank, particularly for a work that extended beyond a decade and a half, with its seeds planted even earlier. My early inspiration came from Ze’ev Bonen, Rafael’s CEO, who has always promoted the idea that projects differ and who developed a four-type categorization of projects, which later inspired this research. I will ever be grateful to him and to some exceptional managers such as Yorm Valfish, Reuven Regev, Aharale Shapira, and Giora Shalgi, who taught me the art of project management and demonstrated what excellence really means.

As a practitioner turned academician, I was lost at first, and I needed guidance in uncharted territory. My new colleagues at Tel-Aviv University, Dov Eden, Shimcha ...