Preface

The Complete Project Manager describes how effective practitioners integrate key people, organizational, and technical skills. Success in any environment largely depends upon completing successful projects, and successful projects are done by skilled project managers and teams, supported by effective project sponsors. The integration of a spectrum of skills enables certain individuals to make a difference and achieve more optimized outcomes.

A goal for this book is to develop project management “heroes.” As described by Joseph Campbell (2008), “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered, and a decisive victory is won.” Our “call to adventure” is to visit ...

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