How Project Management Fits in Strategic Management
Project management has long been viewed through the lens of technical management. From its formal beginnings in Department of Defense projects in the 1950s, project management practices have continued to fill the need for a comprehensive set of processes that aid managers in dealing with the natural complexity associated with product, technology, and systems development. Consistent with this view is the observation that many schools continue to offer project management degree programs from within schools of engineering or information technology. What gets lost in the “project management as technical management” perspective is the natural fit observed between project management practice ...
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