Preface

Project management has been around for thousands of years, but it is only in the past few decades that it has been structured as a professional management practice, with processes and methods that work time after time. If you are reading this book, you are most likely involved in a project or are about to be. Project management is a field of work populated by individuals who have chosen this particular practice of management as their profession. Some project management professionals are specifically project managers. Others can be program managers, scheduling specialists, or experts in some specific functional area unique to projects. The Project Management Institute promotes common definitions and standards so that people who work in ...

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