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Project Management: Science? Art? Common Sense?

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scope, time, cost, quality etc.) It represents “explicit knowledge” about project management and a lot of people out there know these fundamentals. It is science because there are essential processes and elements that make up project management (e.g. That’s the science part of it, and probably the easier one.

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The Importance of “Know Why”?

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Understanding the purpose, context and meaning requires something more than simple “explicit knowledge”. In lean terms, doing everything else without knowing the purpose and meaning is a “waste” – because everything that is done without understanding the purpose is a cost.

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Experience and Expertise – A Few Thoughts

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To be able to build/deliver quality consistently. Another realization is that more knowledge does not always mean more expertise. Ability to execute that knowledge does. That is because most explicit knowledge is widely and freely available now. To be able to relate our work with a larger context. To raise the bar.