> “A project manager is like a doctor who leads the trauma team and

> decides the course of action for a patient - both at the same time.

> Without the right kind of authority to efficiently handle all the

> project management issues, development teams can easily get into

> trouble.” - Scott Berkun, the author of “Making Things Happen”



How did it all start? In the late 1980s, Microsoft was launching an

ambitious project

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft#1985%E2%80%931994:_Windows_and_Office]

and had run into a problem: there were way too many players involved.

There were teams from marketing, engineering, and the business end,

and no one knew how to coordinate all of them.



So, Microsoft came up with what was then an ingenious solution. They

picked one person to take charge of who would be given significant

authority to organize and coordinate their new project. Once Microsoft

appointed a dedicated leader ...