This book is a product of frustration. Quality is clearly one of the key components of project success. Everyone talks about quality. Everyone demands and promises quality in project implementation. But in the end, it seems to be much mentioned and little employed. The reason why is not difficult to identify or understand. Many quality tools — indeed many quality books, lectures, and tra…
The use of projects and project management continues to grow in our society and its organizations. We are able to achieve goals through project organization that could be achieved only with the greatest of difficulty if organized in traditional ways. Though project management has existed since before the days of the great pyramids, it has enjoyed a surge of popularity beginning in the 1960s…
The changes for each new edition of Project Management are fuelled largely by my continued learning and experience. This knowledge originated from my experiences as a manager working in a number of quite different industries, augmented by a number of successful and fulfilling consultancy assignments. I have enjoyed the schadenfreude frisson of learning from the mistakes of others, and equal…