There are several things you can do when presented with development requirements that either don’t seem appropriate for your project—or that present unintended consequences for the often unique, typically very custom projects that public project managers are regularly assigned.
Some baseline calculations become much more intricate when dealing with large projects, especially when fielding new technologies. But at the end of the day, the premise is the same. Is our project within scope, on schedule and within budgeted costs?
If the U.S. Department of Defense has anything to say about it, you could be doing a lot less driving in about 10 years.
Given that 90% of his career has been in the private sector, this practitioner's approach is very much from a business perspective. How would that translate in his role as an elected official in his local community?
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