Project Management - What's It All About?

[krizstrauss]

Project Management is the planning and management of a range of tasks, particularly where there are complexities either within the tasks or within the teams working on the project, in order to achieve a deliverable at the end of the project. A deliverable can be many things; it may be a physical thing such as a new product, it may be an intangible thing such as a new process within an organisation or it may be a new software system.

Whatever the end result of the project, it will involve some type of change within a business. The change could be a modification to the existing status quo or it could be introducing something completely new, so change management is also an element of project management.

[jammsfalcon]

The business requirements certificate should accurately, and in detail, call the purpose of the project. It states what is bare to accomplish that ambition i.e.

[jamsrollex]

A deliverable can be abounding things; it may be a concrete affair such as a new product, it may be an abstract affair such as a new action aural an organisation or it may be a new software system.