CHAPTER 4

The Changed Project Landscape

Project Management Thinking

People have been changing things using projects certainly since the rise of civilizations. Huge structures were built by the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians thousands of years ago that are still with us today. Infrastructure on the scale of an airport or a high-speed rail link delivered without power tools. Possibly, it helped to have an endless supply of forced labor and an incentive scheme where a poor appraisal led to literal termination. However, this is not the old world we want to talk about. It does not relate to a specific period, as the change happened at different times in different industries and countries. The old world is how it was before the shareholder value revolution ...

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