Project Management Fundamentals, 2nd Edition

PART 2

The Project Management Methodology

Management expert Peter Drucker discusses analyzing the work planned for any endeavor and breaking it down into steps: “As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it. This, as Taylor realized a century ago, means identifying the basic operations, analyzing each of them, and arranging them in a logical, balanced, and rational sequence.”¹ This is the fundamental concept behind Taylor’s “one best way,” the work of Henry Gantt, and the project management methodology presented here.

Simply analyzing the work and identifying the steps is not enough; ...