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

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MANAGING PROJECTS WITHINTHE EXISTING ORGANIZATION

HOW CAN ORGANIZATIONS integrate the adaptive and flexible approach into their traditional, well-established project management practices? Fortunately, this is not very difficult. As we show here, once managers understand and accept the adaptive concept, they will find it relatively easy to add several new steps and activities to the conventional practices and integrate the lessons of this book into corporate project planning and execution. For many practitioners, it may not feel completely new. In their struggle to keep their projects in good shape, many project managers are implicitly using similar ideas, although not always in a formal way that is offered by the discipline. With ...