Traditional project management books do that, following the project lifecycle with chapters on project definition, initiation, execution, closure andso on. This book is different. It’s for people who already know that a project has a beginning, a middle and an end and who want to take project management further. It’s for people who know the theory and feel there must be an easier way to get things done. It’s over 250 years’ worth of combined project management experience distilled into 200 pages so you can see how other people run their projects outside the management texts and research papers: how projects get done in the real world.