Project Management

Estimating and budgeting are dry subjects. Learning to perform this process on real projects, however, is a valuable skill to learn more about beyond the scope of this chapter.

If you were a project manager overseeing the construction of the world’s longest suspension bridge and you were under pressure from various stakeholders to get the project done as quickly as possible, would you ‘fast track’ or ‘crash’ the project to satisfy your stakeholders even though you were already running a 12 hour work shift?

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