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Understanding Project Management Essentials

Project management involves planning, organizing, and coordinating resources and tasks to achieve goals within constraints like budgets and schedules. It is required for any complex project like building pyramids, space stations, tunnels, or new products. Project management coordinates teams and ensures projects are completed successfully by managing resources, work tasks, and goals. It provides structure and oversight for projects of any type or scale.

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Understanding Project Management Essentials

Project management involves planning, organizing, and coordinating resources and tasks to achieve goals within constraints like budgets and schedules. It is required for any complex project like building pyramids, space stations, tunnels, or new products. Project management coordinates teams and ensures projects are completed successfully by managing resources, work tasks, and goals. It provides structure and oversight for projects of any type or scale.

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Chapter 1

What Is Project Management?

Making a film is a lot like carrying out a space mission. Both are
big-ticket items produced by teams, which come into existence
with budgetary and schedule constraints. The technical skills
necessary to land a spacecraft on a planet are close to the ones
required to create the illusion of that landing.

—M.G Lord,
Astro Turf1

T he projects mentioned in the Introduction—the Great


Pyramid of Egypt, the International Space Station, the
Chunnel, and the development of Product J—all have something
in common with each other and with every other undertaking of
human organizations: they all require, in a word, management.
Certainly the resources, work tasks, and goals of these proj-
ects vary greatly, yet without management none of them could
happen. This chapter contrasts project management and non-
project management, and looks at the variety of ways and
places where project management is used.

1.1 FUNCTIONS AND VIEWPOINTS OF


MANAGEMENT2

The role of management is to plan, organize, and integrate resources and


tasks to achieve the organization’s goals. Although the specific responsibilities

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