Situational Project Management

Preface

Sometimes, things just fall into place.

In project management, we see many practices that have been developed, each of which has specific strengths and weaknesses. For some of them, we do not even know who invented them and when, such as the bar chart or the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Others have been published with the names of their inventors, such as the Critical Path Method (CPM) or Scrum, and some of them even have some kind of copyright protection. Some practices have been developed as work-arounds to others, and a project manager in a later generation may no longer perceive them as makeshifts, but rather as the way things need to be done.

Some practices are just technical. Others are highly political. Discussions among promoters ...