Chuan Lin 林駿

Warfare is an extension of nation/state in exerting its influences.

Project is an extension of a company in exerting its competitiveness.

While PMI provides standards, best practices, and guidelines, it views situations within the box. Practitioners are advised to follow through Organization Process Assets (OPA), Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF), and/or advises of senior members on non-standard situations.

Sunzi's Art of War can offer a valuable insights from outside the box.

There are common issues faced by generals and project managers.

1) Time/Heaven – it is always a race against time because any prolongment drains available resources.

2) Resources/Earth – While it is necessary to spend capital toward the completion of project, no project is worth the cost, if the end result would bankrupt a nation/company.

3) People – Whether internal stakeholders to external vendors or domestic oppositions to foreign combatants, they are the wildcards in a control environment.