Chapter II
So What Is a Project?
Several Centuries Later
Help Wanted: Person needed to manage projects. No experience necessary. PM software on hand with instruction manual for its use. You will be responsible for planning, scheduling and controlling all projects done by this organization. Salary negotiable.
OC: Congratulations, Sam, you got the job. You learned in high school that the disk goes in that little slot on the front of the computer box—slide end first and circular metal plate down. You found the switch on the back of the box and ZAP—the computer is working, the software is loaded, and you are ready to manage your first project.
OC: What’s that you say? No one told you what to do? That’s easy! Just ask one of the old-timers, right? ...
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