Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Acknowledgments -- Innovations are achieved through projects -- The essence of the key project management concepts -- Categories and characteristics of projects -- Project portfolio management -- Project management offices (pmos)...

"BACKGROUND As detailed more thoroughly in Chapter 1, project health assessments are not a new concept. They have been conducted ever since project sponsors realized a project was "failing" and took action to prevent that failure. Even formal methodologies to evaluate project health are not new:...