The TWM site is dead. If you click through you will be taken to the Internet Archive site to find an archived copy.
This series of articles – or ‘units’ – will not deal with all the complexities of big time project management. Instead, it will cover the sort of projects which all managers have to deal with on a regular basis within the framework of a business whose primary aims are not project based.
But in doing so, it will cover the management principles which govern all projects, large or small, thereby giving some insights into why so many projects fail to deliver what was promised. This will provide a starting point both for those managing small projects and those who are responsible for the oversight of larger projects being carried out by more specialised project managers.
Successive units will go through the stages of a project, identifying the management requirements at each stage and the tools which are available. This will be followed by some extra units covering more general issues, for example, common problems faced by the project manager, managing risk, coping with departmental politics, handling outside contractors. We will also cover process improvement projects. And finally we will add items raised through feedback.
Editor’s Note: I personally found unit one to be of much less value than subsequent units…
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