Chapter 4. eXtreme Project Management Context

“What we've got here is failure to communicate.”

—Captain, Road Station 36 (Strother Martin)^[1]

^[1] Cool Hand Luke, Stuart Rosenberg, Director; Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson, Writers, 1967.

In this chapter, we set the basic context for project work. We define some terms and describe the overall eXtreme project management approach.