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Article Scheduling, Strategy February 2014
PM Network
When second means best
By Swanson, Sandra You're familiar with the scenario: Your team has persevered through a complex, big-budget project for a year, and you're only weeks from a new product launch. Then one day, you hear startling news:…
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Article Scheduling, Strategy December 2012
PM Network
Keeping it real
By Hendershot, Steve Left on the outside, many project managers have conjured up their own idea of how strategic planning meetings work: Executives huddle around a conference table, plotting projects that will be…
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Article Scheduling, Strategy, Construction March 2010
PM Network
Miracles do happen
By Zachariah, Jacob Experienced project professionals have long touted the importance of planning a project before launching the actual effort. This article reports how one project manager relied on a year-long…
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Article Scheduling, Strategy, Construction 28 June 2000
PM Network
New thinking pays off for plant project
By Spanholtz, Detlev | Stokes, Jim Xaloy Inc. of Pulaski, Va., managed an international start-up project to build a high-tech fabrication plant in Thailand. Production began 11 months after project approval, and completed within a…
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Article Scheduling, PMO, Strategy April 1999
PM Network
Setting the stage for a new profession
By Webster, Francis Marion This article offers a short history of project management practices and the development of the project management profession as it took place following World War II. The needs of the defense and…
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