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All projects are really changing things. Take my favorite project of all time: the pyramids of Egypt. Imagine a sweltering desert with miles of sand, snakes, and other scenes of an Indiana Jones movie. Add a few million workers, some major projects, some mummies fear, and you have the pyramids. Well, my story is a bit biased, but I think you see my point. First there was nothing, then after a bit of planning and execution, there were the pyramids.
What approach to project management do you think that the pharaohs used? Is it important? I do not think so.

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Erik Larson book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that changed America (Crown Publishers, 2003) is an incredible read about Chicago playing host to the exhibition 1893 World Columbian - also known as the Chicago World Fair - and the story of a murderer who live in the spooky Chicago, at the same time.

The triumphs and failures of project management within the Expo were incredible: debate on where the fair should be held, the visions of what the show should offer uncompromising detail of the landscape, and (my project favorite) to the creation of the Ferris wheel.

The book says nothing about what project management approach to the show organizers preferred. Is it important? I do not think so.
That's my real point of view. Does it really matter what approach we take to project management?

In the management of software projects, some flavors jumped on and off the radar project management in recent years, Scrum and eXtreme Programming are two of the juiciest, in addition to other models such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and even rolling wave planning.

But here is what I think: Project management is project management. I do not think it matters which approach you take to achieve your projects - as long as you finish your projects.

We could discuss the virtues and positive qualities of all the different approaches to project management and go at each other as fans of the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. But, in reality, is it important at all?

Again, I say no.

I do not like what you like. I do not like the approach of project management that you say is the best. I do not know what you think of my approach to project management. I do not care that you use whatever approach is working.
I do not criticize the preferred method of someone (or the Packers, for that matter). I think there is a tendency to fall in love with the process, action items, forms, reports, control charts, and theories. Big freakin 'deal. Find what works for you, your organization, then do it.

Project management is about getting the job done. Project management is about getting from here to launch the project, the way there at the end of the project. Project management is about getting results.

The model using the PMI

What approach should I use in project management? I subscribe to the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). This is the approach I have outlined in previous articles in this series.
The collection of these five process groups is also known as IPECC: initiation, planning, implementation, monitoring and closure. Here is a summary of each group process:

Launch ·. A project is feasible, a project manager is selected, and the project charter is created.
· Planning. Well, hmm, I wonder what people do in this process group? Yeah, they plan how the project should go. Planning is an iterative process group that allows project managers and project team to review a.

Posted on March 18, 2010.
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