Part II. Establishing Project Management Life Cycles and Strategies

The five Process Groups and nine Knowledge Areas are the building blocks of project management life cycles (PMLCs).Part II identifies five different PMLCs and discusses their characteristics, strategies for using them, when to use them, and how to adapt the tools, templates, and processes to each life cycle model.

Overview of Part II

Part II consists of five chapters.

Chapter 8: Project Management Landscape

The project management landscape is defined based on two characteristics: goal and solution. They are either clearly defined or not clearly defined. That generates a two-by-two matrix into which all projects fit. These four categories are the landscape over which the five PMLC models discussed in Part II are defined.

Chapter 9: Traditional Project Management

The simplest part of the landscape arises in cases where both the goal and the solution are clearly defined. These are what I call Linear and Incremental life cycles. Data gathered from more than 10,000 project managers around the world suggests that approximately 20 percent of all projects fall in this part of the landscape.

Chapter 10: Using Critical Chain Project Management

The topic of this chapter is Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), a resource-driven approach to project management. It is based on the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and has become a significant tool used in many corporations.

Chapter 11: Agile Project Management

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