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The Project Framework: An Overview of its Gates and Stages

Projects as vehicles of change

Internal and customer-facing projects

Stages and gates

The project framework

Some key questions

How can I apply the framework?

Project management is still seen as a specialist discipline requiring special people who are difficult to find and to retain. While this is to a certain extent true, a scarcity of ‘project managers’ should not be a barrier to any organisation starting to develop a ‘projects’ approach to managing its own future.

‘The Golden Rule is that there is no golden rule.’

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Projects as vehicles of change

‘Projects’ are rapidly becoming the way organisations should manage change and this applies not only to traditional ...

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