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What The Hell Is Project Management, Anyway? 发布时间：2012-03-09文章出自：原文链接： HYPERLINK /view/386843_903/What%20The%20Hell%20Is%20Project%20Management,%20Anyway? \t _blank 点击查看 Project management seems like a classic chicken-and-egg career conundrum: How do you prove you’re adept at managing projects if you haven’t worked as a project manager? Beyond that, what does project management really entail, and how is it different from, you know, being a manager? And what tools do the pros actually use, since there seem to be a new one released every week? To better understand some of the managerial speak around project management, I spoke with a 20-year veteran of the field, Frank Ryle. He’s worked as an international project manager for Arup International, managed construction and operation of the first Cadbury Schweppes factory in Russia, and now trains and teaches project management. Ryle analogizes project management to a nine-hole golf metaphor in his book, Keeping Score: Project Management for the Pros, available now as an ebook and due out soon in paperback. In a phone interview, Ryle was, well, frank, honest, and eager to clear the clouds of vagary away from a field he’s worked in for most of his adult life. Fast Company: Where did project managers come from? Have they always been around, just under a different name? Were they just good bosses? Frank Ryle: Project management was just a thing you did, a job you had, but nobody wrote about it just a little while ago. You weren’t a ‘Project Manager’ in the 80’s and 90’s, but when something went good or bad, everybody else stepped backwards, and you were the one left. Project managers were the only ones who could talk about the process, not just the product. And, usually, you were the person who had the charm to do it. Where do project managers traditionally turn to for education and improvement? We all mostly learned by doing it. But after a while, it was the PMI (Project Management Institute), and particularly the PMBOK (P