Managing Projects in Organizations
How to Make the Best Use of Time, Techniques, and People
Chapter One
Operating Within
the Realities of
Organizational Life
Several years ago, I was sitting in a hotel lobby with
four experienced project managers, idling away the time by swapping
stories about project management experiences. One manager made a remark
that clearly struck a responsive chord in the others: "I spend a lot
of time fantasizing about how much I could get done on my projects if
one day my company and its budget officers and upper-level managers
and purchasing agents and lawyers all went poof!-evaporated into the
stratosphere." His three colleagues vigorously nodded their heads in
approval. If this comment were made before an audience of one thousand
project managers, I think that you would find most of th ... read full excerpt from Managing Projects in Organizations: How to Make the Best Use of Time, Techniques, and People, 3rd Edition ebook
