Introduction

This chapter presents project management activity depending on the leadership and social engagement of every player. Project's performance can be substantially improved in the presence of a project management community and a development framework is described to induct newcomers to build and sustain project community maturity. Managing the pace of progress depends on social engagement applied with prompt and diligent attention to decision-making. In contrast with the story of Harry, an account follows of a project manager in a third world country who habitually reaches for ways to enhance a regime's connections. A comparison of the role of project manager, as perceived by Harry and by Bikas, reveals some insight into the variations of project management practice. For long-standing project regimes, orderliness can sustain constancy by reference to its cultural anchor, but leaders must be wary when challenging convention or seeking to modify cultural norms.