August 2016
Beginner
274 pages
11h
English
Many practitioners and experts in project management call for best practice solutions and strive for a kind of universally applicable excellence. During more than three decades in project management as a practitioner, a trainer, and occasionally a consultant, I have developed a deep distrust in these concepts, based on personal experience and observations from a distance. The same practices that have been applied successfully in the past may lead to failure in another situation and practices that have not worked in the past became successful in new situations. This chapter lays the foundation on which most of our projects are performed, before Chapter 3 details project topology.