Effective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme, Fourth Edition

Putting It All Together Finally

I want to take this opportunity to make a few closing remarks about what I have shared with you throughout the course of this book.

This fourth edition has been a true labor of love for me. Even before the third edition was published, I realized there was so much more that I needed to say that I began making notes for the fourth edition. I am excited about the APF, and it will surely evolve as I continue to implement it with my clients and discuss it with my colleagues. I would value any input you care to pass on. E-mail me at [e-mail].

From the Third Edition

We are living and working in truly challenging and exciting times. Those in my generation can remember how times were before the computer became a social and business requirement. If someone had told me 20 years ago that within 25 years we would routinely talk to a computer and it would talk back, I would have thought he fell out of a tree and landed on his head. But here we are. The computer is pervasive. It has invaded every corner of our existence. There is no escaping it. And I doubt that anyone would want to escape it.

For the project manager it has been a boon, but it has also been a bust. Unfortunately, too many project managers have left the thinking to the software. I shudder when I hear senior managers say that they need to get some project management training for their people and in the same breath say they are looking for a good course on MS Project to help their people learn how ...