Please pay specificattention to the details of the five areas of this presentation: The Manhattan Project,The First Ballistic Missile Projects,The McNamara Revolution, Phased Approach vs Iteration/Parallel Approach, and Leveraging the Roots: Strategic and Innovation Projects. In this discussion board, you will need to absorb the lessons of the Lost Roots reading and then apply them to your organization. What approaches or PM methodology does your organization follow? What are the benefits and challenges involved? How does managing projects this way relate to delivering on organizational strategy? If your organization's approach to PM is "ad hoc"...then make recommendations on how they ought to manage projects based on the Lost Roots reading.

If you do no have current/past relevant experience, please base your discussion on research. You can research project management in one or two specific companies in an industry of your choice, and then discuss the above questions in that context. Please add references to your discussion.