CHAPTER 20
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project management is a core skill which all managers must master. Fortunately, you do not need to master the 40 separate activities and seven different processes of a qualified PRINCE2 practitioner to be able to manage a project. With project management, as with much of management, simplicity triumphs over complexity.
The seven basic principles of project management are:
1. Start at the end. Forget the trite nonsense about “first things first”. The first thing to do is to be very clear about the end goal: if you do not know where you are going, you are unlikely to get there. Make sure your goal is a SMART goal. ...
