Required Structural Changes

In most of our companies there is no project management organization. Some of us have a small group of individuals somewhere, addressing project management processes and tools, but this is usually a group contained within some other functional organization (probably IT), distanced from the arena of day-to-day project execution. More typically, scope management gets handled by a contract’s organization, time management is done by some sort of planning/scheduling organization, cost is done by some form of estimating/accounting group, and so on. These functions are usually included in the category of “support organizations” and are not part of the core team. What is required to create teams that can avoid project failures ...

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