Foreword

Project management is a growing field. Take a minute to run a search on your favorite job hunting website with “project management” in the search field. You’ll find listings for thousands, even tens of thousands of jobs requiring project management experience. What I love about this topic is that it’s not limited to specific industries or professions. Engineers follow the same type of processes as real estate developers for completing a project. Each project starts with an idea, a plan is developed to describe the work, and then it’s carried out to fulfill the objective of the project. Along the way, the work is monitored and, when things stray, action is taken to bring the work back into compliance with the plan. The project management ...

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