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The Backpacker’s Guide to Lightweight PM
Jeff Oltmann has over 25 years of experience developing new products and managing successful programs. His specialties include strategy deployment, project excellence, and program and portfolio management. He is principal consultant at Synergy Professional Services.
The formidable body of project management knowledge can overwhelm less experienced practitioners and organizations getting started. They can see the benefits but despair at their ability to adopt an extensive set of best practices and the complex enterprise changes required. They need a lightweight, simple way to start — a backpacker’s approach to project management.
In my experience, this formidable body of knowledge intimidates many organizations that are newcomers to formal project management. These newcomers can see the benefits of good project management merely by observing their competitors, but they despair at their ability to adopt an extensive set of project management best practices. They are starting from a very low level of project management maturity. Chaos reigns, and the organizational changes required to implement the full suite of project management techniques are too great. They need a lightweight, simple way to …
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