CHAPTER 1
An Introduction to Project Management
I became a project manager (PM) in 1966. I never chose to be a PM, but later I learned it came with the job, even though it was not contained in my job description. Today I would be called an accidental project manager, but in 1966 I wasn’t even recognized as a manager—just an engineer, and like a scientist told me about 40 years later, “nobody told me when I was working on my doctorate that I was going to have to manage people. I have no idea how to do that.”
He was right. Yet companies (meaning the people who comprise the company) do this again and again, assuming that if you are any good at your ...
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