Project Planning and Project Success

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Introduction

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up some place else.

Yogi Berra

As someone who has been managing and consulting on projects for

25years, the aspects of what make a successful project have been of obvi-

ous interest. Aer all, delivering successful projects is how I made my

living. Other project managers no doubt feel the same.

When I took my life in a more academic direction, I was, of course,

interested in the question of what maximized success. I thought, “In the

projects I had managed, how could I have avoided the problems?” I won-

dered whether planning and analysis were the basis of project success.

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