The Definitive Guide to Project Management: The fast track to getting the job done on time and on budget, Second Edition

Chapter 1. Introduction

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• What’s new about the new edition?

• What do project managers really want?

• Emerging standards for project management

• Project management is founded on common sense

• How readers can use this book

• What kinds of project is this book aimed at?

• Project management’s nine knowledge areas

• Projects as a distinct class of activity

• Managing projects

• The project management lifecycle

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Aims of this chapter

This introductory chapter can be skipped by those who want to get straight into how to do project management. However, as an introductory chapter, the aims are to:

• explain the current major trends and forces in project management, so as to situate the role of the project manager in that context, and especially to ...