CHAPTER NINE
Developing a Project Management Initiative
This they tell, and whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true.
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To create an environment for successful projects, research the practices that correlate with project success, implement that knowledge across the company, and develop a project management curriculum. These steps constitute a project management initiative. This chapter describes an initiative that Hewlett-Packard (HP) used to develop and market products, realizing that project management is a key enabling factor for rapid cycle times. Other forms of a project office convey similar benefits.
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