Simplifying Complex Projects

It is Monday morning, your senior executive drops a massive new project on you to organize and manage.

He believes this is your company’s #1 priority, and you are best person to manage this beast of a project given your track record. You are free to do whatever it takes to get it going. And by the way, your boss indicates we are already behind schedule, scope is not clear, and budget is estimated over $50 million, but nobody knows for sure.

You go back to your textbook “PMP-101” and “Scrum” training: Is this a Waterfall? Agile? or Hybrid problem?

Answer is: None of the above.

I am proposing an alternate framework that encompasses all: Complex Project Management Framework as follows:

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