Transforming Project Management by Duane Petersen Summary
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Revolutionizing project management for over two decades, Petersen's guide tackles the $3 trillion problem of ineffective strategies. Embraced by professionals worldwide, it transforms traditional methods into agile practices that boost success rates. Why do industry leaders call this their secret competitive advantage?
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When $3 Trillion Goes Up in Smoke
Every year, companies worldwide burn through $3 trillion on failed IT projects alone. That's not a typo-trillion with a T. It's more than the entire GDP of France, vanishing into the black hole of botched initiatives, abandoned rollouts, and strategic plans that never left the PowerPoint deck. Yet here's what's fascinating: the problem isn't lack of effort or intelligence. Walk into any Fortune 500 company and you'll find brilliant minds working themselves to exhaustion on projects destined to fail. The culprit? A fundamental disconnect between the people dreaming up strategy and those actually building it. Strategic planners envision organizational futures without understanding implementation requirements, while project managers execute without strategic context. It's like architects designing skyscrapers without consulting engineers-beautiful blueprints that collapse under their own weight.
The Missing Link Between Vision and Reality
The Diluted Definition of Project Manager
The Foundation Most Projects Skip
The Budget Illusion
When Schedules Meet Reality
The Path Forward
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