Acknowledgments

I worked in Finance crunching numbers, and one day, my boss asked me to purchase twelve 386SX computers as part of the annual capital budgeting cycle: my first “IT project.” Later, I participated in the selection team for a new financial system. Our project team implemented a customized system that was late and over budget. I wanted to learn more about business to become better at projects, and I completed a traditional MBA. Even with this new business knowledge about labor law, return on investment calculations, and the four pillars of marketing, my projects continued to struggle. I searched for answers and discovered the project management specialty.

I enrolled in a project management program at the University of Calgary and ...

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