Project Management

<p style=text-align: justify;><strong>The project management</strong> profession is proliferating and many company executives have ascertained that efficient and effective project management is required to help them achieve their strategic goals and objectives. However there are challenges; according to the Standish group 52% of all IT projects are delivered at 189% of budget and 70% of all IT projects are late. As a result many company executives are requiring project managers to enhance their project management acumen and become leaders who manage projects. Essentially leaders who are equipped with business and domain knowledge pragmatic tools and techniques conflict resolution skills and soft skills among others that will galvanize their project teams and create an environment in which project success is the norm.</p><p style=text-align: justify;><strong><em>Project Management: Novice-To-Expert!</em></strong> is a qualitative comparative case study approach that investigates how project managers in the context of the Engineering Procurement and Construction management (EPCM) industry initiate navigate and successfully traverse the arduous but rewarding path that the author calls the Novice-To-Expert Continuum. Specifically this book is an expose on how project managers become experts? The book primarily focuses on the EPCM industry but the information uncovered by this research can be applied to other professions such as IT Healthcare Banking library science Real Estate Marketing Sales Accounting Finance government sanitation telecommunications pharmaceuticals and beyond.</p><p style=text-align: justify;><strong>The three major</strong> constructs of expertise: Absolute relative and the theory of deliberate practice are used as the studys conceptual framework along with project management continuing professional education (CPE) and informal learning to investigate and ultimately expound on how project managers become experts in the context of the EPCM industry and other industries as mentioned above.</p>