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Customer Success with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step

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Customer Success with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Customer Success with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgments
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Preface
Index

About projects and project management


In this section, we will discuss and argue against some widespread resistance to project management and provide you with food for thought on topics such as the need and options for project management.

Myths and resistance

We need to grant the skeptics some credit for their stiff resistance. Resistance to project management is omnipresent and sometimes embedded in hard-to-shatter myths. The onus of proof rests with the plaintiff, and so we need to plead the project management cause for every assignment, which is a glaring contrast to the tolerance for the unstructured approach. Now what kind of resistance do we face? The opinion that project management has a lot of overhead is widespread. At the same time, it is often seen as an obstacle to flexibility. Many people consider project management as the theorizer's way of doing things diametrically opposed to the management's prime directive of getting things done.

Project management is also labeled as unsalable...