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    Taming Wicked Projects
    Taming Wicked Projects
    Taming Wicked Projects
    Audiobook1 hour

    Taming Wicked Projects

    Written by Amy Schwab

    Narrated by Amy Schwab

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    About this audiobook

    In today’s chaotic organizational environments, project specifications, resources, and sponsorship change at the drop of a stock price. In times like this, it’s tempting to curse our projects as wicked or blame ourselves for not being able to tame these unpredictable and uncontrollable “beasts.” In wild times, our projects are better served by accepting their real nature and by embracing techniques to deal with our projects’ essentially unpredictable and uncontrollable dispositions. In this audiobook, we distinguish project wickedness from project fuzziness and introduce more effective strategies for embracing your fuzzy projects.
    You will learn:
    The difference between traditional flat-earth and wickedly fuzzy projects
    When flat-earth project management nearly guarantees project wickednessThe key strategies for embracing project fuzziness
    How to help others deal more effectively with the upsetting ambiguity of fuzzy projects
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMulti Media Productions
    Release dateSep 1, 2005
    ISBN9781897326947
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