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Successful project

Scope · Budget · Time

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The project management triangle, drawn by Martin Barnes in 1969 and restated ever since as 'fast, cheap, good — pick two'. The useful part isn't the middle. It's that fixing all three at once is the standard way a project is set up to fail.

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