About this book (excerpt from pages 5 & 6)
This book is made up of four main sections:

1. The first describes the role that projects play
in organizations and provides a framework of project management processes and generic project phases around which the rest of the book is structured.

2. The second covers the basic principles that should govern how projects run.

3. The third describes each of the project management processes that must be applied through the life of a project.

4. The fourth describes in detail what should happen in each phase of a project.

Much of project management is common sense but in some areas it involves special tools or methods that must be learned. There is a variety of such methods some of which are mutually incompatible and attempting to describe them all is likely to cause confusion. Rather than risk confusion this book has been written to reflect just one: the critical chain method. Projects managed using the critical chain method have been shown to have a far greater chance of delivering the required outputs on time and on budget than those managed any other way.