ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the root system that provides, sustains and enhances a project's pace of progress. A project's pace of progress is accomplished through human and organisational endeavour that includes the deployment of project management assets of standards, methodology, tools and techniques. Projects are deployed to deliver information systems, humanitarian interventions, engineered products, public administration, feasibility studies, drugs, defence capability, organisation change and many others. In a project organisation, roles and responsibilities must adapt to revised plans, events, short-term goals, evolving circumstances, ambiguities and practicalities. Project players need to be persistent in their exploitation of both regularly used and novel protocols to judge their value and to fashion and re-fashion their use in dialogue and productive arguments on which decision-making depends. Making well-informed choices provides with best chance to deploy the assets of a project management strategy, its social capital and technical expertise to best effect.
