List of acronyms v Preface viii Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 Part I The Essential Building Blocks 7 Chapter 1 Projects and project management 9 Chapter 2 The context of project management 36 Part II Focusing Projects on the Business 53 Chapter 3 Projects and strategic linkages 55 Chapter 4 The Wrappers™ model 67 ………… Chapter 11 The project close-out phase 236 Appendix A: The conference project 249 Appendix B: Basic concepts, tools and techniques 279 Appendix C: Reasons for failure and guidelines for success 325 Glossary 335 Bibliography 345 Index 350