February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
146 pages
3h 52m
English
book
Projects, Programs, and Portfolios in Strategic Organizational Transformation
by James Jiang, Gary Klein, Wayne Huang
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- When you observe the business world, and life itself, you find that projects are everywhere.
- The characteristics of project management include a clear goal and unambiguous output.
- Organizations constrain projects to schedule, budget, and product requirements (scope).
- Projects require balancing resources, relationships, and risks to achieve expected project goals and performance results.
Chapter Structure
Projects and Project Management
What’s a Project?
Simply defined, a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result (PMI 2017). Simplicity ends, however, with the definition. ...