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 ...

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