Introduction

We start with two bits of good news:

  • In most situations project management is very straightforward – and you can do it!

  • By applying the project management techniques you learn in this book, you will significantly improve your chances of success.

This is a book for anybody who is about to start, or who has just started, on a task that is somewhat bigger and more complex than they are used to. You may know this is a project, or you may just be realising that your normal approach of scrawling a hurried list of things to do on a piece of scrap paper to act as memory jogger is not quite enough to make sure you get this task done. You may have been given a project by your boss or you may be an entrepreneur creating your own projects. The ...

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