Project Management: TRAINING

Chapter 1. Introduction: How to Use This Book Effectively

What’s in This Chapter?

• A look at 12 common myths about project management

• Suggestions on how to make the most of the materials in this workbook

• A guide to what’s included in the workbook and on the CD

The art of project management reaches back to prehistory: We still marvel that achievements ranging from Stonehenge to the Great Pyramids to the cathedral at Chartres to the Wright brothers’ first successful flight in December 1903 were all created without the benefit of the formal tools and methods we now think of as part of the science of project management. So you might be asking, “Hey, if those folks didn’t need it, why should we bother spending time and money training people in our organizations ...