Preface
“How long have I got?
“How much can I spend? How much help do I get? What tools will I have?”
“What exactly does this puppy have to do, anyway?”
These are the first three questions of concern to a project manager, and they relate to one of the fundamental—and yet surprisingly unexplored—concepts of project management: the triple constraints, a triangle of time, cost, and performance that bounds the universe within which every project must be accomplished.
The triple constraints derive from the definition of a project: a temporary endeavor ...