Project Management: Best Practices for IT Professionals

Chapter 17. Project Management and the Internet

Introduction

Never before has there been a medium so profound that has had so much dramatic and rapid effect on our society, culture, and the way we conduct business. Not since the invention of electricity, flight, the wheel, and perhaps even gunpowder has there been such a technology that has been accepted so quickly. The Internet has seemed to spring almost from nowhere and burst upon society so quickly—all in a few short years. However, the Internet has been in existence since the early 1970s but only to the privileged few of the academic community. Probably over 90% of Internet users have come to use it in the past six years, since 1992, when the World Wide Web (WWW), a key Internet technology, ...