Applying a Musical Perspective to Project Management
Be on time, in time, and have a good time.
—A musician’s maxim
This chapter focuses on the exploration of project management (PM) from a musical perspective. Or more specifically, how PM might benefit from being more musical. “Projects,” in a more abstract sense, can be seen to be metaphorically musical in terms of requiring technical precision, expression, and performance, and successful presentation to a given audience. Music may also be considered as a simile to relate aspects of eventually resolved turbulence, pace, or volume in projects—“It all got a bit symphonic for a while”—and a metaphor for projects, involving as they each do the coordination of defined areas of professional ...
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