The following content is from Chapter 2 of Leading Megaprojects, a Tailored Approach. We want to define these terms for the context of the book. Further, we also post them here since various practitioners might have different definitions. We will be posting other definitions in the next few days. For today, we will define ‘what...
The term project could be used for anything, from going out to dinner to building a nuclear power plant. So what does the term project mean? We will address this question from different perspectives. We will discuss the term from a service provider viewpoint and a project owner perspective. Further, we will split the project...
This post includes excerpts from a Case Study that we will be publishing later this year. The post is from Chapter 1. The Case Study, let us call it MLP, or ML Program for now. Project or Program The question of project or program (project management or program management) often confuses practitioners of project management....
A colleague asked once “How can we differentiate between projects and tasks?” For many project management practitioners, that question may seem simple but is it? Why the confusion?
This is a follow-up article to the last one on project success. Background We did write in the past a few articles on the PMBOK Guide – what is good about it, what is missing, its inconsistencies, its gaps, and practitioners misunderstandings. A few weeks ago, PMI officially released the fifth edition of the PMBOK...
A colleague and client asked me “how can we differentiate between projects and tasks”. For many that may seem like a simple question but is it? Why the confusion?
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