CHAPTER 2

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AS A LIFE SKILL

One of my concerns is that I've seen a lot of people with the idea that project management is only for those who have chosen it as their profession.

And one of the biggest objectives of this book and specially the next tweets, is to show that several other professions can benefit from the concepts of project management.

The best correlation I can come up with is to compare project management to math. The basic concepts in math don't serve a purpose for a mathematician only. They are also valuable to an anthropologist, a lawyer, a language teacher. It's what I call the concept of universal applicability.

Within this same line of thought, many tools and concepts from the project management field ...

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