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Mario VanhouckeThe Data-Driven Project Managerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3498-3_6

6. Control

Mario Vanhoucke1 
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Gent, Belgium
 

Thirty weeks and multiple meetings had passed for the project now, and Jacob knew that today’s third project progress meeting would be a crucial one. While the previous meetings were often cordial and explorative, this meeting was supposed to be the one where a final decision about the new project management and control approach would be made. For this reason, he had brought the right people together from across the organization in order to get things done quickly.

His colleagues Emily and Mark had been on the core team for this prestigious tennis stadium construction project from the very beginning, ...

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