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What Successful Project Managers Do

March 16, 2015 | Alexander Laufer, Edward J. Hoffman, Jeffrey S. Russell, W. Scott Cameron | Operations

Successful project managers often combine elements of traditional and agile approaches to project management. They cope with uncertainty, for instance, by developing detailed short-term plans along with firm commitments and tentative longer term plans. The authors draw from experiential data from more than 150 successful project managers affiliated with over 20 organizations, and provide a detailed look at the success factors behind NASA's Mars Pathfinder project.

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