CHAPTER 5

Impact and the People Project Triangle

We have seen that the pace of business change has risen; this means the pace with which businesses need to respond with new and reconfigured assets and processes has risen. This is done with projects, so the need for more projects to deliver ever more quickly, effectively, and efficiently.

Fortunately, in response to this need, the project management discipline has professionalized. We now have well-researched and tried methods, tools, and techniques that increase the chance of project success.

Undermining this progress though is the continual competition for resources between projects and business as usual (BaU). This is true for all projects, but it is especially true for composite projects—those ...

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