Whole-of-Life Project Management

Traditional project management focused on the development component of the project life cycle. As shown in Figure 3.3, eXtreme project management adopts a whole-of-life perspective.

Figure 3.3. Extreme project management perspective

In traditional project management, as the project progressed through feasibility study to implementation, recording of costs, duration and effort, and reporting of these process metrics was common. However, after postimplementation review, tracking and reporting mechanisms were stopped as the project was finished.

As a result of this development focus, few organizations accurately tracked ...

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