... from Managing the Project Team: The HumanAspects of Project Management, Volume 3, by Vijay K. Verma (Project Management Institute, 1997) that must be answered at some point in the project life cycle:■■ ... with the statement that impliesthat project management is independent of the project being managed.Despite all that has been written and said about project management, thediscipline is primitive. ... quickly assess the health of a project. To detectvariance, the project manager needs to compare planned performance toactual performance. In larger projects (those with 50 or more activities),reports...