PART 3

Hazards along the Way

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!

My tables—meet it is I set it down

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain:

At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.

—Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5

The previous parts of this book have been aimed at selecting the best possible technical approach to implementing your project management systems or advancing your organization's project management maturity. In many ways, that's the easy part since attempts to adopt and adapt specific technical agendas to achieve a desired end can be to some degree quantified, classified, and observed to be successful or not. It's as close as we project management types will get to the scientific approach—watch an idea be presented, pressed ...

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