The Difference Between Success and Failure is Effective Project Management

The Public Manager's Forum theme this quarter is program and project management, a subject that, while clearly important, is not always something that would move a reader to drop everything and dig into the issue ... at least at first blush.

However, I'm here to argue that you should ignore that urge to yawn! There are few roles in government—sometimes officially titled, sometimes ad hoc—that are more critical to getting things done than the program and project manager (PM)