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Answering 'It Depends'
  (April 19, 2005)




Merely chasing a standalone methodology is not going to buy you an extra hour on your project. You must empower yourself with a set of tools that give you a workbench to experiment with a bigger improvement picture in mind.

There have been many thought-provoking discussions on effective project management steered by Mark Mullaly and other Projects@Work contributors. I am quite in agreement with Mullaly’s statement that "processes that don't create or sustain value are not going to last very long," and I agree that there is no single right answer when it comes to invoking PMBOK, Prince2, Critical Path or Critical Chain as a success-mantra. As Mullaly says in Keep on Evolving (April 7, 2005), "it depends."
 
However, what does "it depends" really mean in this context? Is it like a product-positioning activity where you keep trying various positioning statements and eventually one will hit the jackpot for you? It might be worthwhile to stop thinking of project management in isolation.



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